Róisín Ingle: This new play was the best thing I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time
Kevin Barry’s The Cave is the best play I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time, and the c-word is used quite a lot
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The Cave review: Tommy Tiernan is perfectly cast as a downtrodden barroom philosopher in Kevin Barry’s bleakly funny play
Theatre: Directed with discipline and clarity by Caitríona McLaughlin, Tiernan, Aaron Monaghan and Judith Roddy slip comfortably into well-fitting skins
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
‘God’s feet’ bring a pungent odour to Tom Dunne’s Newstalk studio
Radio review: Helming proceedings at a leisurely, good-natured pace, Dunne makes Seán Moncrieff sound like a Stasi interrogator in comparison
Kevin Barry: ‘You can almost fool yourself into thinking there’s no class system in rural Ireland’
The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality
Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
Event Guide: Forbidden Fruit, Swell Season and the other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide May 31st-June 6th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, edited by Declan Meade: A gloriously evocative and meandering trip through the city
Anne Enright, Sarah Gilmartin, Kevin Barry and Paula Meehan are among the writers who contributed to this beautiful collection
Two Irish writers feature on £25,000 Walter Scott Prize shortlist
Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter and Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits make six-strong shortlist
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
The Guide: Moonlight – The Philip Lynott Enigma, Gabrielle, The Book of Mormon and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry
Tommy Tiernan to star in new Kevin Barry play as part of Abbey programme
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
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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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