The Guide: Cúirt, Samara Joy, Take That and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end
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April 20th-April 26th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The city has its troubles, but it also has a cultural robustness that took the edge off some of the difficulties
Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July
The great-granddaughter of the playwright Seán O’Casey is doing the family name proud, starring in two new films, Lies We Tell and The Miracle Club
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride
Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway
An Irishman’s Diary
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Television: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley Road
Dispute among owners understood to have halted sale of playwright’s house to city council
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
An Irishman’s Diary
An Irishman’s Diary
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Sale of some 350 lots includes paintings, bronzes, prints, antique furniture, china and silver
Councillors to propose that playwright’s house be used as a cultural centre
Nine-fold decrease in chance of a baby dying during pregnancy since 1960s
Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation
Council has revived plans to use playwright’s house for homeless accommodation
Council ‘not overly confident’ money to buy property could be secured due to Covid-19
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
RTÉ follows a group of striving actors from Dublin’s East Wall, avoiding the usual luvviedom
Immense task of reconstruction will demand much more than frantic improvisation
Apple and Google are excellent options for the greatest era of American cinema
To try and define Irish food for a new generation was my ultimate aim in writing The Irish Cook Book
Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
‘The Quiet Man’ actor Barry Fitzgerald described as ‘one of the greatest comedians who ever went on stage’
Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices