Blogs »
- Madonna plays Dublin in JulyJim Carroll | On The Record »OTR strikes again. As predicted here three months ago, Madonna plays Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on July...
- The strange story of the Jack and Jill press show.Donald Clarke | Screenwriter »Here’s an odd one. Every now and then, some distributor will fail to screen a film for the press in...
- Culture Shots: Lewd Facebook pics worth millions, and Van Gogh’s lettersLaurence Mackin | Pursued by a Bear »HERE IS an ambitious and odd art project that could build into something much more substantial than...
Stage »
Is he having a laugh?If you want to get away with really dark comedy on stage, you need to get the knife in without anyone noticing, and laughing at some very human horror doesn’t mean an audience is heartless, writes BERNARD FARRELL
- Fly Me to the Moon
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Books »
A Gruff act to follow for DonaldsonSince becoming the UK Children’s Laureate, author Julia Donaldson is enjoying talking about things other than how she wrote children’s classic ‘The Gruffalo’
- Jimmy Moon
FLASH FICTION: WHEN I WAS small, the house next door was a dark forbidding barn with no windows facing the road. It was surrounded by a high wall and sometimes, late at night, strange noises could be heard coming from the other side.
Treibh »
Rialtas faoi ionsaí as 'droch-chinneadh' eile teanga a dhéanamh“DROCH-CHINNEADH” agus “scannalach” atá Conradh na Gaeilge agus Guth na Gaeltachta ag tabhairt ar shocrú an Rialtais chun deireadh a chur le deontais d’ábhair oidí le freastal ar chúrsaí Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht.
- Cláir oideachais
“DROCH-CHINNEADH” agus “scannalach” atá Conradh na Gaeilge agus Guth na Gaeltachta ag tabhairt ar shocrú an Rialtais chun deireadh a chur le deontais d’ábhair oidí le freastal ar chúrsaí Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht.
Music »
- Ditch the game plan, go for broke
Irish singer-songwriter Cathy Davey is ‘in a good place’, she says, and with a residency of three gigs at Whelan’s this month, she has finally figured out how to enjoy every bit of her performances
More than the sum of their musical partsFresh Horizons, a damp-squib spectacular, and Andrew Litton’s dramatic debut
Film »
- Team that lit up the screen
SMALL PRINT: Just look at this now-poignant Life cover from 1969. Three of the finest actors of their generations, all good pals, have got themselves dolled up for the photographer. It’s Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara and John Cassavetes. Don’t they look indescribably suave as they prepare for Cassavetes’s great Husbands? With the death of Gazzara on Friday, all three are no longer with us, and the world seems a tad more wan.
It's a dog's lifeRin Tin Tin was the first dog to win the hearts of filmgoers in America, EILEEN BATTERSBY looks at a new biography
