Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap

Actor and director who appeared in Father Ted remembered as lovable curmudgeon

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories

Mary Murray fleshes out several characters, ‘Buridan’s Ass’ battles with a philosophical paradox

Remembering ‘The Simpsons’ as a dark comedy with serious heft, keeping a seasonal Dickens classic warm with cheer, and recalling Cinderella’s origin story

Willy Russell’s Liverpool drama travels to Belfast and gets a different accent and a calm ferocity

When the Hitchcocks left Ireland in the 1910s they went on very different paths. One, Rex Ingram, became a Hollywood great, directing ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’. The other, Frank Hitchcock, became a distinguished soldier and chronicler of life in the trenches

The Lyric’s handsome new prodution of Jennifer Johnston’s first World War drama moves from the war at home to the Western Front. Which conflict is worse?

Gerard Lee’s new play looks for rhyme and reason in the eccentric life and death of James Clarence Mangan