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Mick Egan, who is to retire from Rade, the arts organisation working with addicts, at its premises in Dublin. Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan
‘There’s this magical performance that’s nothing to do with drugs’

One day in the 1990s, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg gave the actor and playwright Mick Egan the title for a play. Egan had introduced Ginsberg to the r(...)

Head of a Child (Summer) by Gottfried Helnwein
Testing times for Irish art in London as RTÉ auctions le Brocquys

The forthcoming Sotheby’s Irish Art sale in London on November 19th features some important paintings which have not been seen in public – some in ove(...)

A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes

Think we’ve missed any important quotes? Let us know by submitting your suggestions here and we will publish a selection of the best 1(...)

A brilliantly barmy load of bull

The Táin March is a brilliantly barmy event recreating Queen Maeve’s pillage of her neighbour’s bull as told in the 7th century saga, the Táin Bó C(...)

A detail from the cover of It’s The Stars Will Be Our Lamps by Alan Walsh
Thoroughly modern myth is part of wider trend
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  • February 5, 2014, 11:15

I was living in London when I started reading the old Irish stories again. I had gone there for work and had started missing home pretty hard. It’s a (...)

Cork players look on dejected after their defeat to Clare in Saturday’s final. Photogrpah: James Crombie/Inpho
‘Even at eight points down we believed we had a chance’

Remarkably, the day after an All-Ireland hurling final comparable to a World War II spitfire battle, such was its jarring intensity, no one was badly (...)

Patrick Pearse, Collected Plays/Drámaí an Phiarsaigh, edited by Róisín Ní Ghairbhí and Eugene McNulty
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  • July 20, 2013, 01:00

Patrick Pearse was 36 when a British firing squad executed him in Dublin on May 3rd, 1916. David Thornley was the same age in 1971, when he wrote abou(...)