Up to the 1980s, every Irish B&B had bookshelves stuffed with books left by guests

In throwing out State’s Climate Mitigation Plan, judges have done a real service to Irish democracy

Sly feminism, a jerk of a prince, and a tune adored by girls, boys and karaoke drunks

Racist backlash to Disney's Little Mermaid casting wasn’t all it seemed

Cork author Louise O’Neill on her feminist reimagining of The Little Mermaid

In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend

The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions

In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size

Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens

They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny

The Irish team is off to Copenhagen, so we find out how to get there, and the best places to eat, sleep, drink and explore

36 Belmont Avenue is a five-bedroom Victorian house in turnkey condition

In his new novel, the author of The Hours set out to avoid the tropes of fictional drug-taking. He talks about how Aids created new gay families, the power of three, and why he loves Joyce’s The Dead

Two decades of collaboration with out-there Lars Von Trier has honed Stellan Skarsgård’s Swedish oddball persona to perfection – but deep down he’s really just an ordinary family man with a peculiar sort of career