Helen Meany

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Mourners at the funeral of Eileen Battersby in Drogheda at St Peter’s Church, Drogheda, Co Louth. Photograph: Donall Farmer
Mourners bid farewell to ‘beguiling’ critic Eileen Battersby

Literary critic, author and journalist Eileen Battersby was a “brilliant”, “beguiling”, “beautiful”, “courageous”, “dynamic” romantic who lived by her(...)

Klosterhof: Janek Turkowski and Iwona Nowacka document life in the Polish city of Szczecin in minute detail
Klosterhof review: Obsessive collectors of human traces
  • Stage
  • October 10, 2018, 11:32

KLOSTERHOF Project Arts Centre ★ ★ ★ Film-makers are not garbage collectors, Werner Herzog tells them, but the Polish artists Janek Turkowski and Iwo(...)

The Eurydice Project: A forceful feminist critique of power structures
The Eurydice Project review: ancient Greek feminists versus the police state
  • Stage
  • March 24, 2017, 14:00

★★★★ Project Arts Centre, Dublin The slippery ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is dismantled and recreated for our times in this multilayered dan(...)

Playwright Conor McPherson: “Consistency in plays is deadening. Contradiction and inconsistency is actually the stuff of real life.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/ The Irish Times
Playing God: the perks of the play-writing job

In a curious moment during The Night Alive, the opening show of this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival, one one of its characters gives an account of a r(...)

Jo Fong and Sonia Hughes in Wallflower
Dublin Theatre Festival review | Wallflower: A dance that sidesteps the obvious
  • Stage
  • September 25, 2015, 12:17

Wallflower Project Arts Centre ***   Like reluctant participants in karaoke, audience members sidle into their seats. In the(...)