With a career spanning three decades and encompassing over 20 solo shows internationally, Tom Climent has brought a fresh series of paintings to the prestigious Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in his new solo exhibition titled État Sauvage / Wilding…
Arts & Culture
Happy Days Fest: Where incredible talent meets electric atmosphere
Emma Lueders reviews Dublin’s own Grassroots festival
Living in a city with such a vibrant music scene, the Happy Days Festival should be at the top of any music enthusiast’s to-do list. Featuring five independent artists on a secret running order, Happy Days Fest fosters an electric …
YA or Nay? Rethinking the Young Adult Genre
Emma Lueders sits down with Maureen Johnson to discuss the attitudes to YA in college students
The discussion of genre is enough to send any lecture-attending literature student into a spiral of existential dread. We all know what a genre is and can give a rough description of what each genre means. If the story solves …
Trinity Musical Theatre Takes on Sondheim’s Into the Woods
Trinity Musical Theatre stages a faithful yet new retelling of Into the Woods, Tanvi Sethi reviews
On March 19th 2025, at 7.15pm, the doors to the main stage at the Smock Alley Theatre opened for the first show of Trinity Musical Theatre’s production of Into the Woods, directed by Erica O’Reilly. The musical’s two hours and …
Youth’s the Season –? at the Abbey
Kate Byrne and Aoibhínn Clancy review Sarah Jane Scaife’s production of the 1931 play
“I’m sick of myself and unutterably sick of Dublin” are words you would expect to come from the mouth of a twenty-something year old sitting outside Trinity’s arts block, but they were actually written by playwright Mary Manning in 1931. …
Ar Chúl Stáitse don Cheoldráma “Leigheas ar an nGrá ach Damhsa”
Le dhá oíche taobh thiar dóibh, labhair Stella Ní Chuilleann de Brún le foireann ceoldráma an Chumainn Ghaelaigh roimh a n-oíche dheireanach ar an stáitse.
Tá Leigheas ar an nGrá ach Damhsa faoi lánseoil in Amharclann Players faoi thráthnóna Deardaoin, ag leanúint le traidisiún Seachtain na Gaeilge chun ceoldráma lán-Ghaelach a chur ar siúl go bliantúil.
I mbliana, is scéal úrnua é a chum Cathal …
Thanks, it’s Irish
Seanie Bowes takes a look at the rise of Irish-inspired fashion in Dublin.
In recent times, we have seen the rise of Irish-inspired clothing on our streets, such as Claddagh earrings, graphic scarves, jumpers, and jerseys. Young people now have a desire to embrace their Irish heritage and express pride in their cultural …
The Sound of the Dublin Underground
Emma Lueders chats with Lara Fitzsimons about her emergence onto Dublin’s music scene
Selling out a headliner show only 24 hours after her debut single dropped, emerging artist Lara Fitzsimons is making a splash onto the Dublin music scene. A current BIMM Music Institute Dublin student, Fitzsimons took to the stage with her …
Raw, Juicy and Not So Tender
Trinity News review Glass Mask Theater’s production of Men’s Business
Simon Stephen’s adaptation of Men’s Business, based on Franz Xaver Kroetz’s Männersache, is raw, juicy and not so tender. Packed with violence, nudity and sexuality, Men’s Business takes a nihilistic head dive into a brutal love affair set in the …
Breath beyond the body
Seanie Bowes reflects on IMMA’s Take a Breath exhibition
Breathing is something that we humans sometimes take for granted. Breathing is what sustains us, but how often do we really appreciate our breath as a tool for life, rather than a means for life? The likes of Wim Hof …