Arts

Piping up for those lost at sea

With much of Belfast’s ‘Titanic’ celebrations focusing on the ship, Philip Hammond has composed a moving musical tribute to the…

Wed Apr 4 2012 - 01:00

Rising to the challenge

With such a long tradition of complex and contradictory responses to the 1916 Easter Rising, there’s no reason to expect the …

Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00

Superman of the modern stage

As a critic, George Bernard Shaw laid the foundation of 20th-century theatre, but his plays lie outside their time, writes Peter…

Wed Jul 26 2006 - 01:00

Riding the wave of the Rising

In his stage treatment of the 1916 Rising, the usually controversial writer Donal O'Kelly is for once seeking to reach the middle…

Thu Apr 20 2006 - 01:00

The views of a public intellectual

Literary Criticism: The publication of The Irish Writer and the World, a collection of essays that first appeared between 1979…

Sat Oct 15 2005 - 01:00

A complex personality

Biography In the early 1970s, when I was a student, I found myself on a summer evening in the centre of Dublin with nothing …

Sat Nov 20 2004 - 00:00

A bitter account blind to balance

W.B. Yeats has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent times.

Sat Apr 10 2004 - 01:00

The quiet man and the big fellow

Eighty years ago, the paths of two men - one who made films, the other who made history - crossed on a turbulent boat journey…

Sat Dec 8 2001 - 00:00

Portrait of GBS as immature novelist

I started my Life of Bernard Shaw where he started his life: in Dublin

Sat Nov 4 2000 - 00:00

Where Irish theatre and history meet

Thinking back in old age on his early nationalist potboiler Cathleen Ni Houlihan, W.B

Sat Mar 11 2000 - 00:00

The play's the thing: but not the whole thing

Taking his subtitle from Hamlet's advice to the players that their work must "give the very age and body of the time his form…

Sat Jan 8 2000 - 00:00

The Poetry and the pity

THIS is a finicky book about a huge subject. I'm not sure editor is driving at.

Sat Oct 12 1996 - 01:00