Event guide: Aisling Bea, St Patrick’s Day gigs, and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
March 14th-20th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Irish Film Institute
The Ice Tower director Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘Marion Cotillard has this very warm presence, but sometimes she can be cold’
Acclaimed Hans Christian Andersen adaptation has its Irish premiere this week as part of Irish Film Institute’s French film festival
Event guide: Galway comedy, Pillow Queens and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
October 18th-24th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Gay Spar, the George’s Street Arcade, traffic junctions: 52 reasons to love Dublin right now
A celebration of the capital in all her current glory. The magic, the mischief and the unexpected moments that make Dublin one of the best little towns in the world
Garry Hynes: ‘My wife was taken from me in the blink of an eye. My whole life’s changed’
The Druid founder has a reputation as a demanding director. But she has mellowed – and theatre is a consolation after her wife was ‘taken from me in the blink of an eye’
Death announced of Wildfire Films producer Martha O’Neill
Award-winning film and television producer served on boards of Screen Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland and the Irish Film Institute
Alan Gilsenan: ‘I would have had a dreamy, artsy-fartsy notion that a united Ireland would be great’
In The Irish Question, his new documentary, the film-maker asks what reunification of the island would really mean
The Guide: Gemma Hayes, Dr Strangelove, Jess Gillam and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
February 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Abbey Theatre gets €9.5m in strategic funding from Arts Council, €1m more than last year
Almost €60 million spread across nationwide arts bodies
Was a child killer at large during the Troubles?
The makers of Lost Boys: Belfast’s Missing Children question who was responsible for a series of unexplained disappearances and at least one death
Popcorn in the IFI: is this the buttery end of a long campaign to turn cinemas into feeding pens?
Much as we would wish it otherwise, the exhibitors function within the brutal matrix of neoliberal economics
‘I was a child actor in the 1970s. Now I could be the last generation of projectionists. Only a few of us remain’
What I Do: Paul Markey works at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin
The Dead: Indisputably Ireland’s greatest work of Christmas art
Hugh Linehan: It’s the time of year when I bend people’s ears about James Joyce’s Epiphany-set masterpiece
Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland
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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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