Irish-made watches showcased and a 1960s microcar goes under the hammer
Timepieces by Oileán, Nomadic and Dodecagon to feature in Smock Alley event, while diamonds, sapphires and pearls feature at auctions around Ireland
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Daddy Issues at Dublin Fringe: Women carry clones of Collins and Lincoln in clever comedy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Even the slapstick has a point to it in Brigid Leahy’s high-concept play
Theatre director Patrick Sutton dies
Sutton was founder and ‘driving force’ behind restoration of Smock Alley Theatre
Making a Show of Myself review: Mary Kate O Flanagan never misses a beat
Theatre: Performer tells six loosely connected stories about her life on a bare stage with absorbing results
Word search: Alison Healy on the popularity of certain words and phrases, real and made up
Lexicographers love a low-key quiz on the origins of spoffle and dogmental
Stories from Dubliners review: Back for Bloomsday, Joyce’s stories get a dollop of comic energy
Jim Roche and Liam Hourican of Volta Theatre Company stage their adaptations of Two Gallants, A Little Cloud and Counterparts
Event guide: Cúirt literary festival, Tori Amos and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
April 18th-24th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
This Uncle Vanya – a quick-witted Risteárd Cooper – plays it cool in a house of freaks
Review: Cathal Cleary directs Brian Friel’s Chekhov adaptation at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin
Event guide: Ed Sheeran, Uncle Vanya and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
December 6th-12th, 2025: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week
A Misanthrope: knockout satire of a horny and insincere Silicon Docks
Theatre: Molière comedy reimagined in a Dublin of agonised Millennial love
The real Temple Bar: Thriving cultural quarter or ‘a violent post-apocalyptic place’?
Business leaders argue that the district is moving in the right direction and reject a judge’s recent stark depiction of it as a ‘no-go area’
From LA to Dublin: ‘When people see my name, they expect a granny from Tipperary’
Vietnamese-Irish-American actor and writer Brigid Leahy moved from Los Angeles, California, to Dublin in 2014 to study at Trinity College
Cock review: Relationship farce nudges out old-fashioned ideas
Theatre: Mike Bartlett’s play, like its title, is as mischievous as it is creatively ambiguous
The Guide: Declan O’Rourke, Jason Isbell, Eleanor Tiernan and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
February 8th-14th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
A Californian woman in Dublin: ‘Ireland’s not perfect, but I do think as a whole it is moving in the right direction’
Morgan Steele from Los Angeles, California, first moved to Ireland in 2017
In pictures: Contemporary knits, cool umbrellas and brutalist jewellery at Dublin Independent Fashion Week
Dublin Independent Fashion Week: ‘We want to show that maybe you don’t have to leave, maybe there’s a thriving community of creators and designers here’
Sandpaper on Sunburn: A humorous, compelling portrayal of what it means to be neurodivergent
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: David Horan’s family drama dives head first into the topic of autism
Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to be
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: 19 shows to catch as the festival turns 30
Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer
Tony Cantwell’s Sketch Show review: Charming and inventive with silly flights of fancy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The comedian enjoys his games and riffs, and so does the audience
Persona Metropolitana review: An exhilarating love song to the nature of cities
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Evocative, thoughtful, entertaining and uplifting about the nature of urban life
Feet Pics Aren’t Free review: Being a woman is f**king heartbreaking at times
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Gráinne Blumenthal, who stars in the one-woman show, was made for the stage
Ireland’s artists can struggle to make a living. Six explain the art of juggling their finances
The creative life isn’t the path to fame and fortune that people might think. Most artists need to rely on a second and even third income stream
Soup review: Alison Spittle is bawdy and charming, leaving the audience in tears with laughter
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: There are very few comics doing what Spittle does today, and even fewer doing it well
Paddy Lama: The Shed Talks review – Jason Byrne is at his most nostalgic in this family tragicomedy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Like a granduncle telling stories at Christmas: flashes of brilliance but a little long
Ruvheneko review: Compelling migration stories that deserve to stand centre stage
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Ruvheneko illuminates strength of migrant women but structurally it struggles
Scaredy Fat review: Gleeful horror-comedy about terrors of cinema and of real life
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The emotional tug of production is that it doubles as sincere coming-of-age story
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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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