Winter Papers & An Alternative Irish Christmas: An exquisite hardy annual and a wonderful gift
Winter Papers 11 is a Christmas annual to stand the test of time, and An Alternative Irish Christmas is great for those jaded by other literary offerings
Eileen Walsh
The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina Carr
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr
Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have made
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit
The Second Woman review: Eileen Walsh’s 24-hour performance reveals something astonishing about us
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Playing the same break-up scene on a loop, with 100 different men, the actor is up for anything, alive to each variation
Eileen Walsh: Women actors ‘are like avocados. You’re nearly ready, nearly ready - then you’re ripe, then you’ve gone off’
The Cork actor, who has returned to live in Ireland after 30 years, on ageing, working with Cillian Murphy, and her upcoming role in a 24-hour play with 100 unknown men
Other Voices 2024: Laura Marling enraptures, Kojaque surprises. It can only be Dingle’s essential festival
What audiences are told before gigs at St James’ Church says it all: turn off your phone and just be in the moment
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Small Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New Ross
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
Passion play: Cork theatre fights for its future
The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill
Cillian Murphy: ‘Moving home from London was the best thing we did’
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
Girl on an Altar: Eileen Walsh and David Walmsley bring a muscular energy to Marina Carr’s searing new play
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
Sue Ryder Foundation ordered to pay shop steward €14,000 for unfair dismissal
Eileen Walsh, a night supervisor, claims she was unfairly selected for redundancy
New York’s Irish Arts Center gets a new lease of life
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
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