Michael James Ford
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Fair City actor lived his life ‘to the full’, funeral Mass told
- Irish News
- July 18, 2019, 10:28
Fair City actor Karl Shiels, who died suddenly last Monday aged just 47, “filled his life and lived it to the full”, his funeral Mass has been told. (...)

Tributes to ‘unique and wonderful’ actor Pat Laffan at funeral
- Irish News
- March 19, 2019, 17:51
The actor and director Pat Laffan was remembered as a lovable, gruff curmudgeon during his funeral Mass in Dublin on Tuesday. Laffan was a man who co(...)

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
- Stage
- January 7, 2019, 16:16
More than 300 actors, directors, designers, agents and playwrights have complained to the Minister for Culture about the Abbey Theatre’s recently adop(...)

Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien
- Stage
- December 22, 2018, 05:00
THIRST (AND OTHER BITS OF FLANN) Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, Dublin. Previews Dec 18 Opens Dec 19-Jan 5 9pm (Sat mat 3pm) (New Year’s Eve 8pm) €16/€(...)

No Smoke Without Fire: This week’s theatre highlights
- Stage
- June 2, 2018, 05:00
No Smoke Without Fire Linenhall Theatre, Castlebar, Co Mayo Tuesday June 5th 8pm €16/€14 thelinenhall.com If ever there was an actor y(...)

The best theatre shows of the week
- Stage
- December 8, 2017, 05:00
Mr Burns, A post-electric play Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Ends Dec 9 7.30pm €18/€14 projectartscentre.ie Not only has it become considerably easier (...)

Educating Rita review: A damaged couple who are living to learn
- Stage
- February 5, 2016, 14:02
Lyric Theatre, Belfast **** Belfast in the early 1980s was a perilous place and time. With random violence on the streets and political negotiation(...)

Irish brothers in arms: the soldier and the film director
- Film
- November 8, 2014, 01:00
On the evening of March 6th, 1921, the auditorium at the Lyric Theatre in New York was full. The newest film from Metro Studios, The Four Horsemen of (...)

Review: How Many Miles to Babylon?
- Theatre
- May 6, 2014, 16:00
How Many Miles to Babylon? Lyric Theatre, Belfast ***There are just two deaths described in Jennifer Johnston’s 1974 novella, set during the outbreak (...)

Review: Mangan’s Last Gasp
- Stage
- April 2, 2013, 20:00
Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin *** Do poets get the biographies they deserve? Or is it bette(...)