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The best circles – Paul Clements on the Ulster History Circle’s commemorative plaques

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From Rachael Blackmore to Steve Bruce: The best soundbites of 2021

Some words of wisdom – and some not so wise – from the world of sport

Gig of the Week: Treaty – Songs, with Christy Moore, Lisa O’Neill and more

December 6th to 12th, 2021: The best of the week’s culture events, right around Ireland

It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle

Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge

Donald Clarke: Never mind Ted Cruz, Big Bird is all that is best about the US

A larg yellow bird's vaccination has been caught up in the culture wars – it’s mad, Ted

Pandemic impact on Gate Theatre ‘financially devastating’

Theatre’s funding position has become increasingly difficult, accounts state

Fintan O’Toole: Humans are just apes who burn stuff. Now we must put out the fire

Cop26 delegates have the power to create a turning point in the evolution of our species

Theatrical night out – with the Treaty debates providing the drama

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Going to college? Head to the open days in universities around the country

When are they on and what’s on offer? Key facts about 2021-2022 open days

Fintan O’Toole: Disaster movie now playing on the big screen of Earth

Challenge for Cop26 is that humans have an in-built bias towards optimism

Staff problem – Frank McNally on the strange Irish pilgrimage of Antonin Artaud

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À la recherche des pubs perdus – Frank McNally on visiting Paris again

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The Holiday and the Ivy – Frank McNally on the 130th anniversary of Ivy Day

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Root: Undeniable good will prevails over occasional awkwardness

Dublin Theatre Festival: Four talented actors provide good company throughout

Loud and Cleare: The Offaly woman wowing audiences with breakthrough sounds

Ann Cleare is a sought-after talent and next year sees her opera in Munich about Brexit

Taoiseach marks 75th anniversary of Naval Service in Cork flotilla

Martin and Coveney pay tribute to humanitarian and drug-smuggling interdiction missions

Launch of Jack B Yeats exhibition a red letter day for National Gallery of Ireland

Show that marks 150th anniversary of artist’s birth will see gallery at 60% capacity

Everyone’s a critic – Alison Healy on one-star book reviews

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Lisa Dwan: ‘I was a blond, blue-eyed, pretty actress playing one vacuous role after another’

Then came Samuel Beckett, and his plays set the Irish actor on a new artistic path

Tribal Diatribe – On Lafcadio Hearn and the Irish love of bad language

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‘He and I, always by chance’ – Lara Marlowe on Samuel Beckett and Albert Giacometti

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Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland

Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive

Lockdown auction market thrives as buyers browse from home

Sale prices for Julian Friers and Patrick Pye works far exceed auctioneer’s estimations

Bronze by sculptural artist John Behan an antidote to hype of NFTs

Maquette of well-known public sculpture Arrival among works in Morgan O’Driscoll art sale

Bard of the Boulevards – Frank McNally on poet Charles Baudelaire, born 200 years ago on this day

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Celebrated architect John Meagher dies aged 73

Co-founder of de Blacam and Meagher Architects was ‘invaluable to our culture’

John Buckley McQuaid: ‘Ireland’s silence is a comfort zone’

The expat artist’s new album tackles the omertà over his home country’s recent past

Thinking Anew – Let’s make it our business to respect others

Irish penalties for illegal fishing compatible with EU, court rules

Ruling comes after Dutch skipper challenged forfeiture of catch and gear worth €399,000

When mainstream theatre closed, the avant-garde got busy

With productions shuttered, theatre has to break new ground to reach audiences

Failing better: The afterlife of Samuel Beckett’s best-known phrases

Waiting for Godot; I’ll go on; Fail better: these are the endlessly adaptable words of a sage

Under the hammer: Castlehyde’s €1.2m vase, plus other top auction sales of 2020

Covid-19 turned most auctioneers towards online sales, with some outstanding results

Arriving home for Christmas: ‘We got three negative tests before we came’

Oh so quiet in Dublin airport as early morning US flight touches down

Irish-based designers in mid-century modern sale

Works by Laois-based Zelouf and Bell, office desks and chairs to feature at Adams sale

Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera

Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video

Devotees of Irish fine art spoiled for choice in week of auctions

Superb paintings by Walter Osborne, Paul Henry and Jack B Yeats included in four sales

Jack B Yeats’ Romeo and Juliet to headline at de Veres’ upcoming sale

Auction will be first Irish sale to offer a body of work by bohemian artist Reginald Gray

Emily in Paris tiptoes in the footsteps of Beckett, Lenin and Diderot

An Irishman’s Diary: In which Houellebecq’s latest novel goes head to head with EIP

Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged

Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play

Poe Pourri – Frank McNally on 1960s ballrooms, the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe, and remembering Parnell

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