Caitriona Ennis

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Photograph: Ros Kavanagh
The Fall of the Second Republic review: A fitting portrayal of political disarray

THE FALL OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC Abbey Theatre ★★★☆☆ Michael West’s new play for Corn Exchange and the Abbey Theatre is set in an Ireland paralysed by(...)

A Holy Show: the Aer Lingus hijacker demanded the pope reveal the third secret of Fatima. Photograph: Ste Murray
A Holy Show review: Giddy nostalgia, at comedy-deflating length

A HOLY SHOW Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage ★★★ Among the passengers on a fateful Aer Lingus flight to London in 1981 was a man of convictions – unfortu(...)

Philip Boucher-Hayes: He’s not Joe Duffy, but he’s a good Phil-in
No Joe as Philip Boucher-Hayes puts positive stamp on ‘Liveline’

Philip Boucher-Hayes may be an accomplished broadcaster, but as far as callers to Liveline (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) are concerned, he’s just an ordinar(...)

Caitríona Ennis as Sarah in Margaret Perry’s Porcelain
Porcelain review: The perils of being someone else

Porcelain ★★ Peacock Theatre, Dublin  Hat, a young Irish woman living in London, has not been feeling herself recently. “I’d like to be dif(...)

Donal Gallery (Policeman) and David Pearse (Leopold Bloom) in James Joyce’s Ulysses, adapted by Dermot Bolger, at the Abbey Theatre. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh
Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatment

Ulysses Abbey Theatre, Dublin         ★★★ Tucked up in bed with an unsatisfying book, Molly Bloom has trouble(...)

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards judges Ella Daly, Nicholas Grene and Anna Walsh on stage at the Abbey Theatre this week. Photograph: Alan Betson
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’

It was a significant year, 2016, a period of commemoration when the Easter Rising seemed to rise and rise again. Incentivised by a splurge of State fu(...)

Mary Murray, Caitriona Ennis and Ian Toner in Wild Sky. Photograph: Fergal Phillips
Wild Sky review: a rebellion of ideas

Wild Sky Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin *** Ireland at the time of the Easter Rising, fracturing and differing, is seen as an exploding love trian(...)