Desai returns to the most radical ambition of novels: making the complexity of other lives shareable

Rare though it is, when we actually achieve it, it makes all the fussing feel worth it

Beneath their bubbly surface, Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s pop songs hide a volcanic emotional terrain

I had my first cigarette at 15, for the same reason as most people: because you weren’t supposed to

Chela De Ferrari is bringing a new vision of Shakespeare’s play to Dublin

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: In Last Gig Ever!!, two performers in oversized dark suits thrash around for an hour

Dublin Fringe Festival review: Spittle is a fearless confessional comic and a great storyteller, as she shows in this bracingly honest account of life in a fat body

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ahmed, With Love marshals the kind of collective energy you hope to find in underground shows but rarely do

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays

Emotional and moral depth makes this so refreshing, like meeting the only adult in the room

The Followills may not seem to be having much fun, but they deliver the hits the audience have come for

It was festival’s biggest year so far, with 80,000 people in Stradbally for the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hated

Noel and Mike Hogan welcome the star to perform with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in a tribute to their late bandmate

No dead air for two hours of hits and surprises as Williams asks the audience for adoration

Phillips writes with the help of her husband, whose presence in the narrative grows as her illness progresses