Constellations review: Wonderfully committed performances make head-spinning science positively pleasant
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Aidan Moriarty and Julie Maguire feature in Cork Arts Theatre’s production of the Nick Payne play
Cork Midsummer Festival
‘A stupid woman, miserable in appearance’: Doireann Ní Ghríofa leads us into a hospital’s haunting past
At Cork Midsummer Festival 2026, the Said the Dead writer brings visitors into the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital
The Homecoming of Joseph Grace: Michael Glenn Murphy gives an impressive, deeply felt performance
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Deirdre Kinahan’s play follows an Irishman whose enlistment in the British army begins a life of loneliness and suffering
HouseWork review: A love letter and an elegy for the 1990s and a future Ireland that never quite arrived
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Áine Ní Laoghaire’s one-woman show portrays the shifting role of women through their rise in house music
Event guide: Nick Cave, Beyond the Pale and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
June 6th-12th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Behind the scenes at Gravity & Other Myths: ‘So few people get to do what they love. I’ve won the lottery’
The Australian contemporary circus troupe are on their way to Cork Midsummer Festival. What’s it like to be on the road 300 days a year?
Imelda May: I was told, ‘You will amount to nothing. Aim for not getting pregnant’
Working-class children were routinely underestimated when the singer was at school. She wants her gigs to give people the sense of connectedness that sustained her community
More than 80 Irish festivals to watch out for in 2026
Here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year, from TradFest and Electric Picnic to West Cork Literary Festival and more
The Second Woman review: Eileen Walsh’s 24-hour performance reveals something astonishing about us
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Playing the same break-up scene on a loop, with 100 different men, the actor is up for anything, alive to each variation
Theatre for One: Made in Cork review – One actor, one audience member and a life unravelling
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: In a tiny peep-show-style booth, in a five-minute play, a character opens the mess of their private life to you
Escaped Alone review: Four women, catastrophe and the comforts of ordinary chatter
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Anna Healy, Sorcha Cusack, Ruth McCabe and Anna Monaghan star in Caryl Churchill’s dark, cracklingly funny play
Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Patrick McCabe: ‘This whole idea of making money out of novels started in the 1980s with Martin Amis and Ian McEwan’
McCabe, who found himself adrift in the 21st-century book business despite his huge impact on the culture in the 1990s, on the bliss of going rogue
Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now – a guide to 80 of the best
From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year
The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
Tempesta review: Stephanie Dufresne and Naoise Dunbar shine in Deirdre Kinahan’s moving play
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: A play of such dimensions could repay a few more than these 75 minutes, especially with so much gorgeous writing to savour
Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show
Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience
The extraordinary art of Tino Sehgal is coming to Cork. It has to be seen to be believed
The artist eschews objects to create ‘constructed situations’, and does not document his works – luckily they are unforgettable
Cork Midsummer Festival week two: Reviews of Found, Freefalling, Sun & Sea and Ode to Joy
What we’ve seen in week two of the festival
Cork Midsummer Festival: Reviews of Built on Bridges, The Settling, Ritual and I Fall Down
After the first week, here is what we have seen so far
Happy Days: Siobhán McSweeney brings all her intuition to Beckett’s work of tragicomic genius
Theatre: As Winnie, the actor makes the location and circumstance of Happy Days seem normal, although sorrow keeps breaking in
How to be an aerialist: Show up and take flight
Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit
Sun & Sea: Under the glare of a hot sun, an opera unfolds
On tour since it won the Golden Lion in Venice, the thought-provoking Sun & Sea is on its way to Cork Midsummer Festival
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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