Live audience returns for the first time in 15 months, to see new play by Úna McKevitt

Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service

Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87

Jimmy Gralton was infamously deported from his own country for giving his community a space for dancing and revolutionary ideas. There’s more room for the former than the latter in the Abbey’s handsome, musical and nostalgic telling of his tale

Focus Theatre co-founder, playwright and journalist

Noted novelist and playwright also co-founded Dublin’s influential Focus Theatre