Lir Academy

Television: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley Road

After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull

Meet the ‘Lirheads’: the nine college friends who ended up cast together in Normal People

Former Kildare manager Cian O’Neill had an early sign of actor’s promise

A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy

Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces

What factors should you consider when deciding on what career path you wish to take

The comedy’s enormous success surprised everyone, not least its stars Alex Murphy and Chris Walley

Fionntán Larney’s ‘Hamilton’-influenced hip hop musical theatre show is now an album

After 16 days and 80 productions, festival wraps up with awards in 11 categories

Irish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’

Huge rise in number of women employed was sparked by Waking the Feminists movement

Speak Up & Call it Out initiative could be turning point in controversy over Gate allegations

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