The Irish Times

Michael Morpurgo: On My Culture Radar

The War Horse author on merry Dublin and the acting prowess of Sally Hawkins

Sat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00

Big horseshoes to fill: War Horse leads this week’s theatre highlights

The acclaimed production is back in Dublin; plus: Stones in His Pockets is revived again

Sat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00

Michael Morpurgo: ‘My first impressions of the world were of a bombed place’

The storyteller presents war, peace and the human condition through a lens of realism

Sat May 19 2018 - 05:00

Theatre this week: Voyeurism at Bewley’s and a Peacock debut

Peep, Porcelain and Private Peaceful alliterate the week in theatre

Sat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00

Write stuff: How authors are boosting creativity in the classroom

An education scheme is helping children see writers as living, breathing people rather than mythical beats

Tue Jan 30 2018 - 00:00

British honours for Barry Gibb, Darcey Bussell and Ringo Starr

Jilly Cooper, Eamonn Holmes, Marc Almond, Alexandra Shulman, Rick Stein also recognised

Fri Dec 29 2017 - 22:30

‘War Horse’ evoked by equine mask

The bleak memento has turned up at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers

Sat Oct 04 2014 - 00:00

Fanimal fiction

Adapted from the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, ‘War Horse’ is currently showing in Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre. Here are 10 of our favourite literary quotes inspired by animals

Mon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00

Review: War Horse

What is the easiest thing to swallow in this phenomenally successful show set during the carnage of the first World War? The horse, of course

Thu Mar 27 2014 - 17:26

Real heroes of ‘War Horse’ cast a spell

The puppets in ‘War Horse’ charm and beguile as only horses can – such is the astonishing skill exercised

Wed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00

War baby

British actor Jeremy Irvine got his break early in Spielberg’s War Horse and stars in the moving second-World War drama The Railway Man. He talks to Donald Clarke about trauma, forgiveness – and fame

Fri Jan 10 2014 - 00:00