Róisín Ingle on Kathleen Watkins: She loved life, poetry and Gaybo. Conversation flowed from her like music
Kathleen Watkins was one of the most enthusiastic people I’ve ever met
Brian Friel
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel revival features fine performances and elegant staging
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Andrew Flynn’s production, with Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Denis Conway and Manus Halligan, makes up for play’s slight staticness
Brian Friel: Beginnings by Kelly Matthews – The making of a highly competitive playwright
Broadway, here he comes. But first there were Ulster feiseanna, sports and his family’s literary drive
Dancing at Lughnasa review: Gate’s triumphant, breathtakingly beautiful revival deserves groaning houses
Theatre: Caroline Byrne’s production, featuring Zara Devlin, Peter Gowen and Ruth McGill, makes both dream and reverie of Brian Friel’s indestructible play
The Guide: the Kneecap film, Nicki Minaj and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
July 6th-12th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Anne Friel on her late husband playwright Brian: ‘I was crazy about him. He was everything’
Rehearsals are underway for a new production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Gate this summer, and a new book about the playwright was published this week
Thomas Kilroy’s death feels like the end of an era for Irish theatre
The writer was often mentioned as part of a ‘god tier’ of Irish playwrights, alongside Tom Murphy and, especially, his close friend Brian Friel
Ridley Scott’s crude dismissal of historians is galling
Director insisted history does not matter, but the best film-makers strike a delicate balance between narrative and historical fact
Making Empire: Incisive study of Ireland’s complex role in the British empire
TCD historian skilfully traces a history of conquest, assimilation and defiance that came to shape not just Ireland but Britain and its global empire
Leo Varadkar needs better cultural reference points than Benefits Street
It was a jaw-dropping moment that makes you wonder about the cultural diet of our political leaders. Never mind: here are some recommendations to get them back on track
‘When we left Donegal, I spent my whole school year yearning to go back’
Hannah Peel’s Mercury-nominated Fir Wave, her Dancing at Lughnasa soundtrack, her Game of Thrones score – all are illuminated by a longing that folds into how she feels about Ireland
An Irishwoman in Sweden: It took time for me to feel ready to claim a corner of Stockholm just for me
Caring for babies and moving to a different country took priority over a woman’s love of theatre, but she found great opportunity in Stockholm
Abbey Theatre condemns ‘random act of mindless violence’ against actor who was bitten and glassed
Oleksandr Hrekov (23), cast member of Abbey Theatre’s Translations, needed hospitalisation following attack on Saturday night
Brian Friel’s Translations: The Abbey’s Ukrainian production has an urgent, dangerous energy
Theatre: In this Lesya Ukrainka staging, the narrative drive of the forthcoming Famine is replaced by tomorrow’s headlines of destruction and war crimes
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