Micheál MacLiammóir

‘A spiritual homecoming’: Micheál MacLiammóir returns to his Galway theatre

The Gate founder was also first artistic director of An Taibhdhearc, the national Irish-language theatre. A new play brings him on a ‘dreamlike journey’

Coward and Mac Liammóir shared a secret, seldom-spoken language

London Letter: A new Noël Coward exhibition reminds us of carefully constructed, parallel lives

Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our way

Ireland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish Sea

Gate Theatre founders’ Ranelagh home for €1.75m on elegant Victorian square

Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards once lived in this spacious, bright house

Tory Brexit strategy increasingly defined by disarray

Analysis: Internal debate over customs bears little relation to existing negotiations with EU

Smoke break: James Fox cigar boss retires after 46 years

David McGrane recalls his colourful career at the Grafton Street institution

First look: Bewley’s on Grafton Street reopens after €12m renovation

The buns are back, but the big mugs of milky coffee are gone

The show goes on – An Irishman’s Diary on a celebration of Fergus and Rosaleen Linehan

Gate Theatre needs to take risks – and so does its audience

Culture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventure

‘The Gate attracts drifters. It’s about making it a beacon’

In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's future

The bishop, the box and the shining orbs: the many ghosts of the Gaiety

Former archbishop John Charles McQuaid is among those roaming the theatre long after the curtain comes down, say the theatre's backstage staff

The Meath Gaeilgeoirs who couldn't get on and the commuters who love their drives

Newstalk’s absorbing documentary recounts the rivalry of ‘planters’ from Connemara

My mother, Molly Keane: caustic chronicler of the lost Anglo-Irish world

The great, caustic and conflicted chronicler of a lost society of big houses, hunting and celebrity, Molly Keane comes to life again in a biography by her daughter Sally Phipps

Department store manager and driving force of Cork city’s cultural activity

Tom Donnelly: March 18th, 1934 - September 23rd, 2015