‘When we buy from local crafts people we keep our money in the community, where it gets put back into other local businesses’

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film

Lee Coffey brings a century of working-class Dublin to life through one dock worker

What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Go dark inside: an artist and a landscape designers solution when their house had very little natural light

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Enjoys sea views and elegance at Coolmanagh, a four-bed Victorian home in Dalkey

Shaw’s classic is Frankenstein with better elocution and a bit more screaming

The artist’s re-creation of a 1970s ‘Playboy’ panel discussion about sex raises questions about popular culture and mass media then and now

Dublin City Council is about to sign off on a new City Development plan. Addressing the crisis in artists’ studio spaces is crucial for the fabric of the city

Artist had been told prints would ‘fly out the doors’ of galleries

Are you heading to Enniskillen for the Happy Days Festival celebrating the life and work of Samuel Beckett? Here are our highlights, theatrical and otherwise