The Dead brought to life: how James Joyce’s celebrated short story is being re-created as an immersive experience
Featuring Marty Rea, Maeve Fitzgerald and Marie Mullen, Louise Lowe’s re-creation is taking over Newman House, on St ...
Irish postpunk band Gurriers: ‘Everyone asks about the Dublin music scene. It’s not just Dublin any more, it’s everywhere’
“One day you’ll wake up and my face will be all over your television,” Daniel Hoff, the Gurriers frontman, sings on their ...
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘Wow! What a face. What a man’
If you dig around on YouTube, you can find video of Andrea Arnold winning the best-live-action-short Oscar for Wasp, in 2005. For no good reason, Jeremy Irons is presenting the award from an aisle in ...
How to pack up your plants when moving on
It’s not, after all, like moving house where we can box up all our favourite belongings and pop them into the removal van to ...
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Which house plants are best for students?
My daughter has just started college and has moved into student accommodation on campus. I want to give her some indoor ...
Rita: A Memoir by Rita O’Hare; At the End of The Day by Jimmy Kelly; Until We Fall by Helena Sheehan
One day, Helena Sheehan was asked by a group of DCU students recording a vox-pop, “What is the most important lesson you have ...
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A nocturnal creature stole 40 standard golf balls but no hollow plastic ones. Why?
Occasionally I practise golf in my back walled garden with old golf balls and plastic balls. I take them in at night-time. A ...
The Guide: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nas and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
Eighteen albums in 40 years is pretty productive, but when it comes to Nick Cave nobody expects quantity to outweigh quality.
Jonathan Coe: ‘The morning after the election felt like waking up in a safe room, having been in an abusive relationship for 14 years’
Following the release of his latest novel, The Proof of My Innocence, the author discusses his ‘stylistic homecoming’, the ...
David Marcus: Editing Ireland, edited by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden: Rich miscellany of poems, stories and reminiscences
David Marcus’s commitment to Irish literature began early. In 1946, when he was just 22, he brought out a magazine called ...
Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Like everyone who lived through 1980s Ireland, I have mixed feelings about the experience. Yes, life was a little simpler ...
Trump returns to Washington with ‘Drain the Swamp’ intentions still alive
Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping second coming continues, with Friday bringing confirmation that no presidential candidate has ...