‘Wuthering Heights’ star Alison Oliver: ‘I really didn’t imagine a film career for myself’
The Irish actor stars alongside Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation
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Dublin City Council seeks €114m in funding to kickstart Taoiseach’s taskforce plan
City centre rejuvenation to focus on vacant and derelict buildings and sites
Fair Deal writer Una McKevitt: Buying a home is like ‘going to Mars – it takes up a huge part of people’s lives’
Set over a single night in a family home, Fair Deal uses a dispute around care and inheritance to ask not who gets the house, but what the house has already done to the people inside it
Stage IRA Man – Frank McNally on the real and pretend 1916 Rising of actor Arthur Shields
He went to the Abbey Theatre to collect a rifle hidden under the stage and join the fighting
Event guide: The Crucible, Maria Somerville and other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
February 7th-13th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
‘As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda’ – Frank McNally on rise and fall of street singer Mary Connolly
After the Easter Rising, her patriotic ballads struck a chord with the public
‘Celebrating our roots and growing together’: Dublin’s St Patrick’s festivities announced
Four days of ‘carnival’ promised with centrepiece parade of 12 large floats as well as marching bands
Next Year Will Be a Good One by Shivaun O’Casey: Life in the benevolent shadow of Seán O’Casey
More important than any encomium from this quarter, Seán O’Casey’s daughter diligently captures his life and legacy
The 1920s London Irish Theatre: Abbey’s difficulty was England’s opportunity
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel’s history shows extent to which Irish drama was important in London
Can a theatre critic make a living in Ireland in 2026?
Theatre critics are essentially hobbyists, criticism something to be squeezed between the demands of other work
2026 on stage: 20 headline plays in the year ahead, including Jodie Comer in Prima Facie
From a portrait of a declining Judy Gardland to comedy, film adaptations and musicals, there’s much to look forward to in the coming year
Is the Wood Quay monstrosity finally going to be demolished?
Could a magic wand finally reverse this gross example of urban vandalism, or will the Green lobby and preservationists intervene?
The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Moulin Rouge!: Our critics’ verdicts on the pantos and shows to catch this Christmas
The Snow Queen and A Christmas Carol are among the highlights over the festive period
Playwright Seán O’Casey’s daughter: ‘He never seemed old to me... he was quite adventurous’
Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes previously unpublished letters from her father
‘Over a million kids have come here’: 30 years of The Ark children’s cultural centre
Creative director Aideen Howard says facility remains unique on the international stage
Abbey Theatre announces centenary Plough and the Stars production for 2026
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt to also feature in forthcoming season
Dublin Gothic at the Abbey: ‘It’s big, unapologetically dramatic, linguistically beautiful’
Barbara Bergin’s play follows three inner-city families across a century from the 1880s, and features more than 150 characters
Dublin Gothic at the Abbey review: Prepare for some archly provocative character assassination
Barbara Bergin’s huge, complex new play takes aim at some Irish heroes as it covers a century of life in the capital
Christmas calendar: What’s on around Ireland this festive season
Fun and family friendly events and activities from panto to light shows, candlelit concerts to craft workshops
Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers?
If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free
Bán, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a brave, brilliantly acted ensemble piece
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The gifted Carys D Coburn reworks The House of Bernarda Alba in grim 1980s Ireland
The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina Carr
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr
Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have made
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit
Playwright Carys D Coburn on Bán: ‘Can we be real to one another and be family? Often the answer is no’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Coburn’s prowess is in addressing the space between what we say and what we know
Derry Power obituary: Irish actor appeared in some of Britain’s best-known films and sitcoms
Career included roles in Z-Cars, My Left Foot, Educating Rita and Intermission
Marina Carr and Caitríona McLaughlin on The Boy: ‘We’re constantly being told what to do, what to think. We’ll turn into zombies’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays
Abbey Theatre’s box office revenue plunges in 2024 amid summer closure
Abbey's box office revenue fell in 2024 amid summer closure
The Revenger’s Tragedy: ‘I love the idea that there’s a Jacobean revenge tragedy inside each bedroom rapper’s head’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: +353 Presents: The Revenger’s Tragedy gives a drill update to a restored classic of Jacobean theatre
Frank Grimes obituary: Versatile film and stage actor who found mainstream recognition in Coronation Street
Dubliner was recognised with a Tony nomination for his work in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy on Broadway in 1970
The absurdity of office culture: ‘Some of the rules, I was, like, what is this?’
Caitríona Daly, author of the new Abbey play The Lunch Punch Power Hour in Conference Room 4, on sending up the absurdity of office culture
‘I loved every day I worked with Seán and will miss him’: tributes paid to beloved RTÉ presenter Seán Rocks
Donal Ryan, Elaine Feeney, Sinéad Gleeson and more pay tribute to the Arena broadcaster and presenter
Seán Rocks: Ireland has lost one of its great cultural champions
Late broadcaster’s easy wit and big-hearted spirit belied a lifelong devotion to our rich culture
Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate
Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket
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