Obituaries of 2023: 50 people who died this year
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Thomas Kilroy
Thomas Kilroy’s death feels like the end of an era for Irish theatre
The writer was often mentioned as part of a ‘god tier’ of Irish playwrights, alongside Tom Murphy and, especially, his close friend Brian Friel
Thomas Kilroy, acclaimed playwright, novelist and academic, dies aged 89
Kilkenny author of 16 plays and one novel helped modernise Irish theatre
And now for the stars: O’Casey’s great-granddaughter takes to the stage
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Did a cataract operation improve my memory?
The playwright Thomas Kilroy said that’s what happened after his surgery. Could it be true?
The Big Chapel X review: A story of schism brings a community together
This huge adaptation of Thomas Kilroy’s novel is both an impassioned critique and a persuasive illustration of crowd control
The week’s best theatre: A week of debauchery, chicanery and mayhem
Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019: Rough Magic does Shakespeare, Nathalie Stutzmann does Bach
Festival unveils programme for this year’s festival, which runs from August 8th to 18th
Fintan O’Toole: Irish blood, English heart – and white skin?
Morrissey was once an Anglo-Irish critic of Britishness, but he is now a far-right icon
Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
Ian Toner plays both William Joyce and Brendan Bracken under Jimmy Fay’s direction
Event of the Week: Belfast International Arts Festival 2018
With Isabella Rossellini heading the line-up, this year’s festival is hitting the refresh button
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Tribalism will make people believe fake stuff
Evan Davis gave the annual Hubert Butler lecture at Kilkenny Arts Festival. Other highlights included a gaze-activated dress
‘If Joyce and Beckett were around now they’d be priced out of their gaffs by an Airbnb’
What happens when a city becomes too expensive to sustain its creative community? David Kitt’s remarks about Dublin’s high rents have struck a chord with fellow creatives
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
Signatories review: an imagined truth about key figures in the Rising
Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry
Signatories: eight major Irish writers, seven Rising heroes
‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape
Irish writers commemorate Proclamation signatories
Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol
Abbey archive – act one, scene one: Sexism and censorship
Abbey Theatre unveils digitised papers revealing role of era’s Irish literary giants
Culture Shock: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, which is why we’re drawn to Russian drama
Brian Friel plays up the farce in his version of Turgenev’s ‘A Month in the Country’, but Ethan McSweeny’s production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin seems reluctant to go all the way
Culture Shock: Stephen Rea on his belief in the cleansing power of theatre
An edited extract of the award-winning actor’s acceptance speech at the ‘The Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards
A thrillingly intimate 30 minutes with Andrew Scott
He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work
Aoife Duffin: ‘There was a lot of curiosity about whether I was a normal person’
When she was approached for the only role in the distressing stage adaptation of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, the actor had refused, saying she couldn’t do ‘another play about rape’ after a string of draining parts. What changed her mind?
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