Antonin Artaud in Ireland: Myth and influence of avant-garde genius we arrested and deported in 1930s
Legacy of French writer and dramatist Antonin Artaud who was detained in Milltown, Donnybrook and Mountjoy is focus of Ranelagh Arts
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Fintan O’Toole: ‘The withering god of fever swoops on us’
Artists have always sought to find meaning in pandemics, plagues and mass infections
Rachel Weisz: ‘Holocaust denial didn’t affect me until the internet age’
With a background in avant garde theatre, the actress broke big with ‘The Mummy’. Now she plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on Holocaust denier David Irving
No WB Yeats, no Samuel Beckett? Fintan O’Toole on why we mustn’t forget the poet’s plays
Like Beckett, Yeats imagined every detail of his plays on the stage. Like Beckett, he has to be done well or not at all. And his ideas are now even more urgent
Trespassers: A Memoir, by Julia O’Faolain
An insightful chronicle describes a daughter’s struggle to emerge from the shadow of her famous father, the writer Séan O’Faolain
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