Bo Cuailnge
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‘There’s this magical performance that’s nothing to do with drugs’
- Culture
- September 2, 2020, 05:00
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(...)

Testing times for Irish art in London as RTÉ auctions le Brocquys
- Fine Art & Antiques
- November 16, 2019, 05:00
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
- People
- March 11, 2017, 05:08
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
- Life & Style
- May 16, 2015, 15:24
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(...)

Thoroughly modern myth is part of wider trend
- Books
- 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 (...)

‘Even at eight points down we believed we had a chance’
- Hurling
- September 30, 2013, 01:00
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
- Books
- 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(...)