Lear

Holidays, homes, yachts and jets – or acts of decency and generosity? We look at options

Tales of an unexpected nature combine horror with fairy tales and a feminist focus

President believes remaining years of Decade of Centenaries will provide difficult challenge

Despite critics’ perceptions, the writer addressed radical topics throughout her career

Scéalta dátheangacha

When it comes to tournament telly, there’s only one Après Match

Irish and international stars of film, music, politics, sport and real life who left us this year

The year’s best novels and collections from emerging authors at home and abroad

Dick Spring and Shane Ross looked miserable as they tried to get the bid over the line

A vivid retelling of Shakespeare’s Lear set in contemporary India by Preti Taneja

Donald Clarke selects some stand-out pictures from veteran actor’s career

Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generation

A two-week holiday in the Caribbean island of Necker will set you back around €1 million

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

For 25 years John Scott has been at the forefront of Irish dance. When it comes to making work, ‘All I need from a dancer is an open mind and generous spirit’

Brexiteers’ fear they will be betrayed and Remainers that they already have been

John Scott and Valda Setterfield combine to dazzling effect, with warmth and humour

20 years after ‘Shine’, the self-effacing Aussie is the youngest actor to have won the elite acting treble of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony

In Shakespeare, the fool speaks truth to monarchs with reasonable confidence he will not be parted from his head

The playwright’s celebrated play Big Maggie is on this year’s Leaving Cert course. His daughter, a secondary school teacher in Tralee, remembers her father and writes about teaching his work

I’m not sure we learn anything from the arts – except that we need them more than ever

From Bob Cratchit to Atticus Finch, from Philip Roth to Ivan Turgenev, Eileen Battersby surveys fathers in fiction and the authors who created them

Famously bling couple touched down in Lear jet shortly after 4pm on Sunday afternoon

A trip to London led me to the National Theatre’s brilliant ‘King Lear’ and to ‘Riverrun’, Olwen Fouéré’s show based on texts from ‘Finnegans Wake’

Patsy McGarry

Antidisestablishmentarianism (revisited)

The Winners

How many ways are there to tell a fairy tale?