Calling extremely early birds: Beckett tickets go on sale 11 years before performances
In Krapp’s Last Tape, Richard Dormer and Samuel West will use recordings they made 30 years earlier, in line with Beckett’s vision
Seán Doran
Lighting the way: In search of the Ulster soul
Enlightenment Festival sees two installations light up Belfast’s Linen Hall Library
Police investigating claim Noah Donohoe abducted and murdered, inquest hears
14-year-old was found dead in storm drain in north Belfast six days after he went missing
Pop culture in Ireland was always divided between North and South
Shaping cultural identity formed part of the reason Raidió Teilifís Éireann was established
Gerry Adams gets permission to appeal convictions from 1970s
Sinn Féin TD claims two convictions relating to attempts to escape from prison were unlawful
‘It’s really important’: casting women in roles traditionally played by men
Taking on Homer’s Odyssey in its first translation by a woman is all about facing up to uncomfortable truths, says actor Maxine Peake
What’s the secret behind Derry’s mare in the square?
Trojan Horse explores Brian Friel’s love of Homer and the ways in which the classics influenced his plays
Forget the Wild Atlantic Way: here are the Northern Literary Lands
Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge
Fishermen fear UK limits will push EU boats into Irish waters
Skippers in Howth worry about prospect of further restrictions by British government
Family of Seamus Heaney open centre dedicated to late poet
£4.25m Bellaghy facility a permanent exhibition about life and work of Nobel Laureate
Centre celebrates Heaney’s life, from rural beginnings to world acclaim
Family will open HomePlace dedicated to late poet next week in Bellaghy, Co Derry
€5m centre dedicated to Seamus Heaney to open in September
Initiative in Bellaghy celebrates Nobel laureate in town where he spent formative years
Happy Days on bleak sets and Beckett gets schooled
Enniskillen – home of the Beckett festival – offers settings that match the desolate emotional atmosphere of his work
Brian Friel to be honoured at cross-Border festival
Lughnasa International Friel Festival to take place in Donegal, Derry and Belfast
Winner of first Feis Ceoil conducting competition shows them who’s boss
The real question now is whether Elaine Kelly will get the opportunities to build her experience and repertoire
Passing the time at Enniskillen’s Happy Days festival
Conversations turn Beckettian when this festival of all things tragicomic doesn’t turn out as planned. Could it be any other way?
Samuel Beckett’s old school ties
Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans
Five days in Beckett Town: the best and the boldest of the Happy Days festival
A huge number of productions and premieres were stuffed into the Enniskillen festival, many of them performed in intriguing locations
Beckett is back: ‘It’s entirely unfair that he is seen as alien or grim’
So says Happy Days festival director Seán Doran of Beckett. Doran’s aim is to break new ground, and with the celebration of the playwright in Enniskillen he has pulled that off
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