‘I am 12. I don’t know what my career will be’ – Catherine Clinch, star of An Cailín Ciúin
Actor shines in Irish-language film that secured spot at ‘big three’ European film festivals
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
Pan Pan Theatre captures echo of Beckett’s poetry
‘Beckett is quite a good voice, I would imagine, in terms of the tone of pandemic’
The Fall of the Second Republic review: A fitting portrayal of political disarray
Conspiracy thriller set in counterfactual 1970s Ireland plays out as screwball comedy
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
Endgame review: A grim depiction of entropy and finality
Pan Pan’s production doesn’t so much revivify Samuel Beckett’s play as submit to it
The best theatre this week: From Beckett to a female-centred festival
Des Keogh and Rosaleen Linehan stage a reunion; and SoloSirens comes to Tallaght
Acting out the apocalypse – in dustbins
The cast of Pan Pan’s upcoming Endgame talk about Samuel Beckett’s enduring relevance
‘Resistance’: Let the arguments about historical truths begin
Follow-up to ‘Rebellion’ is based on the War of Independence, and is keen to emphasise overlooked female stories
The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed
Wilde had to be discreet with his double meanings - In Pan Pan’s arch and fractured riff on his life and work, they try to have him both ways
Pan Pan co-founder Aedín Cosgrove gets into the mind of Samuel Beckett
Pan Pan’s new production of Cascando is a journey through the labyrinth of the mind - and a fascinating lens through which to see Beckett
Patrick Pearse on trial: focus on the rebel leader
Three-part TV3 series stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, best known for ‘Love/Hate’
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Shakespeare may have been on magic mushrooms’
The Abbey goes Pan Pan for a subversive, tender and innovative production of Shakespeare’s warped comedy, which has been relocated to a nursing home
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare isn’t getting any younger, and here his Midsummer action finds itself wandering the halls of a nursing home
The Stag review: not your average Irish Hangover
John Butler's film follows a party of young men as they behave badly on a stag weekend - and that's where the comparisons end
Close to the bone: getting into Beckett’s headspace
Pan Pan’s production for stage of a 1959 radio play continues the ‘deregulation’ of the Beckett industry
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