William Shakespeare

‘Farewell ceremony’ in Mount Jerome featured music chosen by the Freeman of Dublin

World records for Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife and Hone’s Composition

Former Ireland winger’s Shelbourne appointment warmly greeted all round

A complex formula involving several variables dictates whether the word is appropriate

I wanted Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney to come up, with Paul Durcan as back-up. All three came up!

An Irishwoman’s Diary on auditing your lockdown goals

Z Nation, The Monkees, Buffy and 2000AD are fine examples of brilliance by stealth

The pandemic usurped the artist in 2020. But live performance has long proved resilient

Planet Business: The times they are a-changin’

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Peep Show star is ‘depressed’ by Brexit but tries to focus on the ‘greatest aim’ of being funny

Provost says it is time for sculptures in Long Room library to better represent diversity

Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X

Brexit is, in its own mad way, a version of that great British tradition, heroic failure

International away trips are being co-opted but football has resisted before

Delirium has often been dismissed as simply ‘the patient is just confused, it will pass’

Fortgranite home to generations of a hunting shooting and scientific family

Test your knowledge of the past 12 months with these 100 questions – and you could win a prize

A rediscovered dictionary of historical slang highlights some bawdy delights of the past

Review: It's a gnom com with a PR problem, as allegations hang over its lead actor

Dr Muiris Houston: A body of evidence links shift work with diabetes, heart disease and cancer

His new film ‘The Post’ neatly captures the Trumpian zeitgeist. But the director worries that ‘four-quadrant superhero franchises’ will drive these old-school films out of cinemas

The DUP’s brinkmanship and manoeuvring have exposed Britain’s powerlessness

Danish newspaper has suggested that Eriksen is worth more than the full Ireland team

His works have been adapted by Rob Reiner, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg. And we’re soon to see more adaptations on screen

Ireland’s image as rebel nation where each Catholic suspected of treason persisted for hundreds of years

Concern after Murrayfield loss is that things may get harder before they get easier

Songwriter’s speech read out at the Nobel prize-giving dinner in Sweden

How to be Man: Anthea McTeirnan counts the ways why we love men

In the hands of Filter Theatre, live music and comedy shake up Shakespeare’s classic

Leave campaigners cling to ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘This scepter’d isle’. They’ve misunderstood both William Blake and Shakespeare

Barcelona Letter: Commerce and ritual mask mixed emotions on day of regional pride

Medieval style singers White Raven to feature at Cork International Choral Festival

US president says peace process an example of governments working together

William Shakespeare’s approach to Ireland mirrored contemporary anxieties about England’s long, brutal slog of a war here

The Bard still speaks to us unerringly with universal truths about the human condition

‘Full stop-sized’ figure made to commemorate 400th anniversary of playwright’s death

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards