The Irish Times

Nobel Prize in economics awarded to duo for work on auction theory

Stanford professors responsible for new formats used widely around the world

Mon Oct 12 2020 - 12:35

Philip Glass: ‘Everyone needs a technique, whether they’re a plumber or a cook’

The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00

Aosdána functions as way of hiding fact that arts funding is shamefully low

If sector was funded to level of European norm there would be no need for allowances

Wed Jul 24 2019 - 05:00

‘The only message I’ve peddled is that we’re headed for the apocalypse’

Don’t laugh at Edward Aczel’s awkward attempts at comedy – he’s trying not to be funny. But, as his new stand-up show, ‘Is Ed Aczel Infinite?’ proves, anti-comedy can be timeless

Sat May 26 2018 - 05:00

Martin McDonagh: A history of violence

After 20 years Druid Theatre Company is reviving ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’. Here its creator looks back

Sat Sept 17 2016 - 03:00

Sydney Festival shows the city how it can change and grow

The city’s main arts festival has helped transform a suburb. With a changing of the guard can it also alter its own identity?

Mon Jan 25 2016 - 01:00

Warning signs two years before dementia develops

Dementia sufferers ‘stop noticing memory loss two years before condition develops’

Thu Aug 27 2015 - 12:05

Starmus: a festival of the stars

At Starmus Festival in Tenerife, the superstars of science and megastars of music bring cosmology to earth

Sat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00

UCC to honour Nobel Laureate

Prof John O’Keefe will become third Nobel Prize winner to be honoured by UCC

Tue Oct 07 2014 - 11:54

Samuel Beckett’s old school ties

Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans

Sat Jun 28 2014 - 01:00