The best Irish summer festivals in July and August, from music and comedy to literature and science
Schools are out and out of offices are on so it’s time to plan how to get the best out of summer in Ireland
Schools are out and out of offices are on so it’s time to plan how to get the best out of summer in Ireland
There’s still just time to catch Dublin Dance Festival, Cellissimo and International Literature Festival Dublin, which end this weekend
Theatre: More than any other factor, the catharsis he is seeking onstage is an attempt to process trauma that he feels stems from an insecure attachment at home
What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?
The innovative theatre company are bringing back Wake, their exuberant, life-affirming explosion of a show, for St Patrick’s Festival 2024
Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays
Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time
New to the Parish: Joy Nesbitt came to Dublin from Dallas in 2020
Half a dozen figures from the arts world reveal what they require to realise their full potential as creators
This year’s festival, the 29th, hosted 560 artists in 562 performances of 77 productions in 32 venues across the city
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The lines blur between movement and music in this production inspired by the children’s poems of WB Yeats
The comedian is at his most intimate in his new book, a memoir of family life where grief and laughter sit side by side
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much more
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The comedian enjoys his games and riffs, and so does the audience
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hilarious new show about fashion, fame and the lengths some may go to keep the dream alive
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The considerable physical skills of aerialists Monika Palova and Sean McIlraith impress
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hannah Mamalis plays a multitude of characters in her hilarious and absurdist solo show
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The dancer and choreographer contorts and shapes her body with meticulous care in a masterly performance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Written with a young-adult audience in mind, this is a timely meditation on how to move on from out-of-date rituals
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Síomha Hennessy serves an effervescent mix of stand-up and musical turns
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Evocative, thoughtful, entertaining and uplifting about the nature of urban life
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Gráinne Blumenthal, who stars in the one-woman show, was made for the stage
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Veteran Irish comic brings a packed crowd to their knees more than once
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The greater goal of this show seems to be a satire of machismo
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: This show is filled to the brim with queer quips, acute self-awareness and combative, interpretative dance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Jennifer Walshe’s high-octane music is a mixture of what’s written down, what’s improvised and live digital manipulation
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Cleverly put-together production highlights harsh realities of modern working life
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Abigail Smith and Lioba Petrie create a space for reflection in the evocative Chapel Royal at Dublin Castle
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Blending hip-hop and wrestling is a winning combination in this show full of pageantry
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Aerial artist Kate Dunne transfixes and unnerves
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Solid 60-minute set has something for everyone
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Tales from the life a middle-aged Irish comedian
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Daw Daw’s radically personal production introduces sometimes alarmed audiences to far-out role play
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Theatre needs an audience to exist and one person per show seems a costly return for such a collective production effort
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices