The Second Woman review: Eileen Walsh’s 24-hour performance reveals something astonishing about us
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Playing the same break-up scene on a loop, with 100 different men, the actor is up for anything, alive to each variation
Cork Midsummer Festival
Theatre for One: Made in Cork review – One actor, one audience member and a life unravelling
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: In a tiny peep-show-style booth, in a five-minute play, a character opens the mess of their private life to you
Escaped Alone review: Four women, catastrophe and the comforts of ordinary chatter
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Anna Healy, Sorcha Cusack, Ruth McCabe and Anna Monaghan star in Caryl Churchill’s dark, cracklingly funny play
Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Patrick McCabe: ‘This whole idea of making money out of novels started in the 1980s with Martin Amis and Ian McEwan’
McCabe, who found himself adrift in the 21st-century book business despite his huge impact on the culture in the 1990s, on the bliss of going rogue
Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now - a guide to 80 of the best
From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year
The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
Tempesta review: Stephanie Dufresne and Naoise Dunbar shine in Deirdre Kinahan’s moving play
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: A play of such dimensions could repay a few more than these 75 minutes, especially with so much gorgeous writing to savour
Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show
Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience
The extraordinary art of Tino Sehgal is coming to Cork. It has to be seen to be believed
The artist eschews objects to create ‘constructed situations’, and does not document his works – luckily they are unforgettable
Cork Midsummer Festival week two: Reviews of Found, Freefalling, Sun & Sea and Ode to Joy
What we’ve seen in week two of the festival
Cork Midsummer Festival: Reviews of Built on Bridges, The Settling, Ritual and I Fall Down
After the first week, here is what we have seen so far
Happy Days: Siobhán McSweeney brings all her intuition to Beckett’s work of tragicomic genius
Theatre: As Winnie, the actor makes the location and circumstance of Happy Days seem normal, although sorrow keeps breaking in
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