Anne Byrne

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The Duke of Cambridge juggles during a special event at the Tribeton restaurant in Galway. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
‘I just love them’ - hundreds welcome British royals to Galway

Around 300 people gathered on the main street in Galway awaiting the arrival of the Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Thursday morning. The (...)

Anne Enright and Lucy Vigne-Welsh in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill in 1985. Photograph: Alan Byrne
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’

It’s fascinating how the same set of words can have so many different meanings. I’m sitting in on rehearsals for Rough Magic’s forthcoming production (...)

Body and Soul 2019: festival stage times revealed

Body & Soul Music and Arts Festival has announced the full stage times for its 10th Aniversary celebration of the summer solstice which kicks off (...)

Fever Ray: headlining the Body and Soul stage on Friday at the festival
Body & Soul 2018: stage times revealed
  • Music
  • June 7, 2018, 08:30

Body & Soul Stage Friday, June 22nd 00:30-01:45 Olof Dreijer DJ Set 23:00-00:15 Fever Ray 21:10-22:10 Fatima Al Qadiri 19:40- 20:40 FAK(...)

Samhain festival: everything you need to know

If you live in Lucan, Co Dublin, and see someone hanging around on Sunday evening killing time while dressed as a giant rabbit, here’s why: for those (...)

Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway in Manhattan. This fitfully amusing comedy is now majorly compromised by its May-December romancing
In 1979 nobody bat an eyelid about Woody Allen's character (42) dating a 17-year-old

It’s one of modern cinema’s greatest overtures: George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, played by the New York Philharmonic, blazes across cinematographer(...)

The young Anne Gannon on her graduation from NUIG and as she is now – the mature centenarian.
NUI Galway’s oldest graduate 101 . . . and still not out

When Irish-Argentinian student Anne Gannon graduated from university in Galway, Europe was engulfed by a wave of fascism. Adolf Hitler had become Füh(...)

Former Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness said: “Irish husbands by and large have not deserted their wives to take off with painted floozies.” File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
‘The heavens have not fallen’ since 1995 divorce referendum

The dire predictions that were floated by the opponents of divorce in 1995 have not been borne out. That is according to former Supreme Court judge, C(...)

John Banville, Eavan Boland (pictured above) and John Montague are among the line-up for a Yeats 150th anniversary event at the National Concert Hall next month.
Literary listings: Merriman Summer School, Yeats in Dublin, and Rebellion at Stinging Fly
  • Books
  • August 12, 2015, 15:33

Rebellion at Stinging Fly The deadline for submissions to The Stinging Fly February 2016 issue is this Friday, August 14th. In the Wake of the (...)