'You get to the top, and you realise it’s really only the middle': Gabriel Byrne as PM Tom Dawkins Thus key exchanges were rarely allowed to take more than a couple of shallow breaths before we were ...

Earlier this year Marty Gleeson was the first Irish woman to win best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut ...

Lise de la Salle was not the soloist the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover originally planned to bring with them to open their ...

This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a ...

After a morning spent mesmerised by Simon Abkarian's De Gaulle, a hero disappeared by his supposed allies only to bounce back ...

Last year I was at the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in York and, at the end of a long day and ...

I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Disc number four, however, marks a sharp stylistic left turn for the Aussie mavericks. In fact, No Bad Memories sounds most of all like it could easily have come from a frenzied collaboration between ...