Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’

Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir

‘The Constitution will soon put women back in their place. Everything is fizzling away’: Sarah Jane Scaife on Youth’s the Season–?

Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the Abbey’s new production

Fionnula Flanagan: I remember the ‘No Irish or dogs’ signs. I didn’t want to live in a country that took that attitude towards me

Put off London, the actor went instead to the US, where she spent 50 years as one of Ireland’s most prominent screen presences

Opposition to withdraw Dáil ‘pairing’ arrangements in row over ‘dangerous’ speaking rights plans

Fiery Dáil exchanges over impasse as promise of solution dubbed a ‘con’

‘A spiritual homecoming’: Micheál MacLiammóir returns to his Galway theatre

The Gate founder was also first artistic director of An Taibhdhearc, the national Irish-language theatre. A new play brings him on a ‘dreamlike journey’

Coward and Mac Liammóir shared a secret, seldom-spoken language

London Letter: A new Noël Coward exhibition reminds us of carefully constructed, parallel lives

Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our way

Ireland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish Sea

Gate Theatre founders’ Ranelagh home for €1.75m on elegant Victorian square

Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards once lived in this spacious, bright house

Tory Brexit strategy increasingly defined by disarray

Analysis: Internal debate over customs bears little relation to existing negotiations with EU

Smoke break: James Fox cigar boss retires after 46 years

David McGrane recalls his colourful career at the Grafton Street institution

First look: Bewley’s on Grafton Street reopens after €12m renovation

The buns are back, but the big mugs of milky coffee are gone

The show goes on – An Irishman’s Diary on a celebration of Fergus and Rosaleen Linehan

Gate Theatre needs to take risks – and so does its audience

Culture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventure

‘The Gate attracts drifters. It’s about making it a beacon’

In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's future