Arts

Trinity’s Ongoing Debut Festival Shows the Best of Student Drama

This year's Debut Festival is well underway, but if its first production passed you by, there's plenty of time to catch up.
By Emer Tyrrell

Dublin’s Newest Literary Magazine is Changing Climate Consciousness

Channel, set up by Elizabeth Murtough and Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, is publishing 'inherently political' writing about nature and the climate.
By Aoibh Ní Chroimín

‘He Offered Me Carrot Sticks and a Dip’: The Day I Met Johnny Depp

Stephen Jones, the founder of iconic UK act Babybird, on a moment that's crystal clear in a life of hazy memories.
By Stephen Jones

Gay Byrne, Who Kept Trinity Honorary Degree ‘in Back Pocket’, Dies at 85

The much-loved broadcaster received an honorary degree from Trinity in 1988.
By Eimear Finan

With Antigone – Or Pale Sister – Dublin Continues a Trend of Greek Myths

Following the trend of recent Irish productions retelling Greek mythology, the Gate shows the Euripidean tragedy Antigone, in the form of Pale Sister.
By Sophie Furlong Tighe

Bewley’s Cafe Lunches Just Got a Little Darker, With Nothing But a Toerag

Aisling O’Mara's Nothing But a Toerag will run in Bewley's Cafe Theatre all through November.
By Alannah Murray

Sass Mouth Dames Film Club is Back – With Fashion in its Sights

The film club will return for a 12th series showing four films focused on fashion after World War II.
By Carla Meaney

Meet the Woman Putting Playwrights on a Path to the Stage

Pamela McQueen talks about how being a playwright went out of fashion – and then came back in.
By Emer Tyrrell

In Trinity, Margaret Atwood Talks Power and the Patriarchy

The author of The Handmaid’s Tale descended on the Exam Hall last night for an evening with the Hist.
By Martha Kirwan

In the GMB, Katie Price Enthrals the Phil

Reality TV star and pop culture icon Katie Price received the Phil’s Gold Medal of Honourary Patronage yesterday.
By Sárán Fogarty