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QUINNT-ESSENTIAL FEARGAL

June 1, 2016
FEARGAL QUINN – (O’BRIEN) PERHAPS the biggest revelation in Superquinn tycoon Feargal Quinn’s memoir, Quintessential... Read more »

SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER

June 1, 2016
SARA BAUME (WINDMILL) THIS UNLIKELY story traces an eventful year in the life of... Read more »

REVIEW – CYPRUS AVENUE

May 5, 2016
PEACOCK THEATRE THE ABBEY decided that O’Casey could wait. For the first full production... Read more »

TRIAL OF THE CENTURY – TV3

May 5, 2016
SHOWN LAST weekend over three consecutive nights (to coincide with the anniversary of Pádraig... Read more »

WRECKING THE RISING – TG4

May 5, 2016
WITH centenary programmes now linking arms across the schedules, this three-part bilingual series (produced... Read more »

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – GATE THEATRE

May 5, 2016
OF ALL Irish theatres, the Gate boasts the most predictable programme, keeping its dedicated... Read more »

FLAWED – CECILIA AHERN (HARPER COLLINS)

April 21, 2016
GRIM ALLEGORICAL tales about dysfunctional futuristic societies have become staples in youth fiction over... Read more »

WHAT ARE YOU EATING? – RTÉ ONE

April 21, 2016
OVER RECENT years Philip Boucher-Hayes has spent a lot of time on television peeking... Read more »

MADAME DE MARKIEVICZ ON TRIAL – PAVILION THEATRE

April 7, 2016
AMID ALL the salutes and flag-waving, one of the more welcome aspects of this... Read more »

BISHOP’S DELIGHT – PATRICK McGINLEY (NEW ISLAND)

April 7, 2016
PATRICK MCGINLEY was born in Co. Donegal in 1937 and moved to England during... Read more »

A FANATIC HEART – RTÉ 1

April 7, 2016
THIS two-part documentary traced familiar aspects of WB Yeats’s life – including his obsessive... Read more »

THE DROWNED DETECTIVE – NEIL JORDAN (BLOOMSBURY)

March 24, 2016
THE OPENING chapter of Neil Jordan’s first novel since 2011 appears to be... Read more »

SING STREET – DIRECTED BY JOHN CARNEY

March 24, 2016
JOHN CARNEY’S obsession with music and film and films about music continues in Sing... Read more »

THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS – ABBEY THEATRE

March 24, 2016
NO MATTER what, Sean O’Casey’s Plough was going to be the natural dramatic centrepiece... Read more »

RECAP: Inside Ireland’s Financial Crisis

March 9, 2016
Kevin Cardiff (The Liffey Press) KEVIN CARDIFF was a senior mandarin at the Department... Read more »

THIS LIVING AND IMMORTAL THING

March 9, 2016
AUSTIN DUFFY (GRANTA) THE TITLE of this debut novel refers to the remarkable effort... Read more »

JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK

March 9, 2016
GATE THEATRE WHEN IT comes to tenement life in 1920s Dublin, Thomas Hobbes nailed... Read more »

REVIEW – GULL

February 25, 2016
GLENN PATTERSON (HEAD OF ZEUS) IN RECENT years, Glenn Patterson has made his name as... Read more »

BIG MAGGIE – GAIETY THEATRE

February 11, 2016
BIG MAGGIE is back, and cynics have plenty of reason to raise an eyebrow.... Read more »

THE SCRAP – GENE KERRIGAN (DOUBLEDAY IRELAND)

February 11, 2016
AS THE 1916 centenary approaches and the commemorative market becomes increasingly crowded, Gene Kerrigan’s... Read more »

REBELLION – RTÉ 1

January 14, 2016
THE LATEST version of the 1916 Rising is told from the viewpoint of three... Read more »

ROOM – DIRECTED BY LENNY ABRAHAMSON

January 14, 2016
LENNY ABRAHAMSON has been the critics’ darling for over a decade since his excellent... Read more »

EAST OF BERLIN – PROJECT ARTS CENTRE

January 14, 2016
FROM Sophocles to McDonagh, Western drama is rife with troublesome parent-child relationships. It’s no... Read more »