Chris Walley: ‘There is a degree of living like a monk – but a fun monk’
The Young Offenders star has been focused on a demanding stage role in London, but the hit series is calling the Cork actor home
Martin McDonagh
Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800-1840: A fluent voice and an open mind
A new account of Moore as a writer attuned to debates on gender, education, boxing, empire, enslavement and agricultural trade
Druid Theatre: Fifty Years by Patrick Lonergan – a thorough and persuasive account of Druid’s first half century
The book’s main shortcoming is its hyper focus on the founders of Druid at the expense of a broader theatrical framework
The Séance of Blake Manor: Irish-made game getting rave reviews has Irishness in its DNA
Spooky Doorway’s mystery game is a cross between Cluedo and a Martin McDonagh play - perfect for dark evenings
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
Brendan Gleeson: ‘I can’t go into a pub any more. I really miss it’
With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a people
The Pillowman review: Anthracite-black comedy. The most appalling crimes
Martin McDonagh’s play, in a disciplined if occasionally muted Gate production, makes discomfort the point
The Pillowman, at the Gate Theatre: ‘Another level of dark, even for Martin McDonagh’
Fra Fee and Ryan Dylan, who star in the Dublin venue’s summer production, on cancel culture and comedy
Ireland event guide: Lana Del Rey, Alanis Morissette and the other best things to do this week
Event guide for the week June 28th-July 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘I always had an affinity with Wolfe Tone. Maybe because I was told I wasn’t Irish’
Kwaku Fortune’s new play, The Black Wolfe Tone, has just opened in New York. It’s a very personal story for the actor and writer
Domhnall Gleeson on nepo babies: ‘I’ve been so lucky. It’s important you can acknowledge it. Otherwise you’re lying to yourself’
The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending him
Magic movies: The 25 best comedies of the past 25 years – in reverse order
From Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 years
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
The Pillowman review: Martin McDonagh’s early play gets a pin-sharp, meticulously controlled staging from Lyric and Prime Cut
Theatre: Emma Jordan directs a well-balanced ensemble cast in the playwright’s depiction of a writer suspected of child murder in a totalitarian state
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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