Thomas Kilroy
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Did a cataract operation improve my memory?
- Health & Family
- December 22, 2020, 06:01
The Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy said that when he had cataracts removed from his eyes his memory improved. He was delighted with the improvement in(...)

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(...)

The Big Chapel X review: A story of schism brings a community together
- Stage
- August 12, 2019, 16:18
THE BIG CHAPEL X St Brigid’s College, Callan ★★★☆☆ As a large crowd snakes through the dusky streets of Callan, the storied Co Kilkenny town, you may(...)

The week’s best theatre: A week of debauchery, chicanery and mayhem
- Stage
- August 10, 2019, 00:01
Much Ado About Nothing The Quad at St Kiernan’s College, ends Aug 17th, 8pm (Sat and Sun mat 3.30pm) kilkennyarts.ie Love is a kind of con job in Wi(...)

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019: Rough Magic does Shakespeare, Nathalie Stutzmann does Bach
- Culture
- June 18, 2019, 12:59
Two new collaborations with Rough Magic Theatre Company and a promenade production of Thomas Kilroy’s novel The Big Chapel staged in the town of Calla(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Irish blood, English heart – and white skin?
- Opinion
- June 4, 2019, 05:00
On either side of the accession to power of Margaret Thatcher, two great songs acted as harbingers of the long, slow death of the British state. Both (...)

Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
- Stage
- November 5, 2018, 10:26
DOUBLE CROSS Peacock Theatre, Dublin ★★★☆☆ If the first casualty of war is truth, Thomas Kilroy’s 1986 play presents two of its most skilled assassin(...)

Event of the Week: Belfast International Arts Festival 2018
- Culture
- October 13, 2018, 05:00
Over the years, as an arts producer and festival curator, Richard Wakely has frequently encouraged performers, artists and organisations to hit the re(...)

Kilkenny Arts Festival: Tribalism will make people believe fake stuff
- Culture
- August 15, 2018, 05:00
“When we think about craft, we think about hand-made,” Nora O Murchu told the crowd crammed into the National Design and Craft Gallery in Kilkenny on (...)

‘If Joyce and Beckett were around now they’d be priced out of their gaffs by an Airbnb’
- Culture
- August 4, 2018, 06:00
This week, the singer and songwriter David Kitt announced that he was leaving Ireland. “I’m being forced to leave the country I love as I can’t afford(...)