Bán, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a brave, brilliantly acted ensemble piece
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Federico García Lorca
‘The church no longer has the same grip on moral values and lives but is still very much in our bodies and our mindsets’
Belfast International Arts Festival 2024: Patrick J O’Reilly on the power of Yerma, Lorca’s haunting rural tragedy, which he has relocated to Cooley for Tinderbox’s new production
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‘I think the Irish are Spaniards who got lost’
Ian Gibson has lived in Spain for decades and is best known for his work on the poet Federico García Lorca
Leonard Cohen, the poet channelling Byron and Lorca
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Lorca’s grave may be uncovered 78 years after execution
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