Druid Theatre: Fifty Years by Patrick Lonergan – a thorough and persuasive account of Druid’s first half century
The book’s main shortcoming is its hyper focus on the founders of Druid at the expense of a broader theatrical framework
Siobhán McKenna
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’
‘A spiritual homecoming’: Micheál MacLiammóir returns to his Galway theatre
The Gate founder was also first artistic director of An Taibhdhearc, the national Irish-language theatre. A new play brings him on a ‘dreamlike journey’
Former Olympian’s Dalkey home with Victorian values for €3m
Donnacha O’Dea’s Albert House is a two-storey five-bed with beautiful sea views
‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
Directing Ruth Negga as Hamlet: ‘Theatre either puts you to sleep or wakes you up’
South Africa’s Yaël Farber, who cast Ruth Negga, is accustomed to fresh perspectives
State urged to buy 4,000 acres of Luggala estate for public use
Mountaineering Ireland makes call ahead of scattering of Garech de Brún’s ashes at the site
‘I loved him’: Tributes to Tom Murphy
The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work
President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to playwright Tom Murphy
Award-winning writer from Galway has died at age 83
The year that was: 1986 at home and abroad
Hurricane Charlie, Knock airport, Chernobyl and Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’
‘It’s a bit like country music, an ignored part of hidden Ireland’
Ireland’s amateur drama season is an eccentric, ambitious concept, with 54 productions touring 37 festivals. And the stories are as good off the stage as on it
Passionate actor whose work conveyed ‘total belief’
Gabrielle Reidy: July 23rd, 1960 - October 13th, 2014
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