Conall Morrison

The Treaty National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Recital Room ★★★★☆ “They’re Celts. They’ve been at it for 700 years and they’ll be at it for the next (...)

On the walls of the entrance to the Kevin Barry rehearsal rooms in the National Concert Hall are photographs from the Treaty debates 100 years ago. (...)

ELEKTRA The Castle Yard, Kilkenny ★★★★☆ Her father was hacked to death with a hatchet. He was taking a bath. After that, her life had followed a sing(...)

The Belfast soprano on music, acting and her career route to Strauss’s angry, angular role The Elektra in Richard Strauss’s 1909 opera is a woma(...)

Ranging from Irish theatre and dance to language, literature and myth, the first ClassicsNow programme begins on Friday, November 13th. In a new weeke(...)

Last Saturday night, just after 9pm,  singer-songwriter Freddie White picked up his guitar and walked onto a stage in Doolin, Co Clare.(...)

There should have been applause. There should have been cheers. There should have been hugs and kisses and jokes and a few convivial jars after. Inste(...)

Not long after his death, Jonathan Swift became the subject of a scurrilous rumour. As the story had it, not only did Swift, the renowned satirist and(...)

‘I’m surrounded by Tom here,” says Jane Brennan. “His presence is everywhere. It’s very strong.” We’re sitting in their sitting room in Rathgar. The p(...)

More than 300 actors, directors, designers, agents and playwrights have complained to the Minister for Culture about the Abbey Theatre’s recently adop(...)