RECAP: Inside Ireland’s Financial Crisis March 9, 2016 Kevin Cardiff (The Liffey Press) KEVIN CARDIFF was a senior mandarin at the Department of Finance from 2006 to 2010 and secretary general... Read more »
THIS LIVING AND IMMORTAL THING March 9, 2016 AUSTIN DUFFY (GRANTA) THE TITLE of this debut novel refers to the remarkable effort cancer cells give to growing and multiplying. Duffy’s story... Read more »
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK March 9, 2016 GATE THEATRE WHEN IT comes to tenement life in 1920s Dublin, Thomas Hobbes nailed it: poor, nasty, brutish and short. That’s the dominant... Read more »
REVIEW – GULL February 25, 2016 GLENN PATTERSON (HEAD OF ZEUS) IN RECENT years, Glenn Patterson has made his name as a reliable chronicler of ordinary life during and after... Read more »
BIG MAGGIE – GAIETY THEATRE February 11, 2016 BIG MAGGIE is back, and cynics have plenty of reason to raise an eyebrow. The timing of this revival by Druid – a... 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 book traces the involvement of one rebel unit –... Read more »
REBELLION – RTÉ 1 January 14, 2016 THE LATEST version of the 1916 Rising is told from the viewpoint of three fictional characters: Elizabeth (Charlie Murphy), a privileged Church of... Read more »
ROOM – DIRECTED BY LENNY ABRAHAMSON January 14, 2016 LENNY ABRAHAMSON has been the critics’ darling for over a decade since his excellent debut feature Adam and Paul (2004). With Room, adapted... 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 surprise for the misdeeds of one generation to be... Read more »
