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Sara Keating: Open House Festival encourages Dubliners to view city with fresh eyes

The city-wide architecture festival offers tours of historic buildings and usually private locations, plus talks, roundtables and events for children

Sara Keating: Artists give us a serious laugh as the world burns

Two novelists and a theatre company use tragicomedy to great effect when addressing the issue of climate crisis

Sara Keating: A welcome opportunity for Irish children’s writers to make their voices heard

Discover Irish Kids’ Books, a campaign led by children’s author Sarah Webb, aims to persuade booksellers to promote ‘home-grown’ children’s books over those of non-Irish authors

Sara Keating: Seeing red – flagging the impact of climate change

Visual artist Fergal McCarthy’s warning installation The Red Flags draws attention to the dangers that global warming poses to us and our planet

Sara Keating: Heaney exhibit reflects his enduring genial public image

Various celebrations of the late Northern poet’s work present plenty of opportunities to reconnect with his life and legacy

Sara Keating: Brendan Behan remembered on the centenary of his birth

A series of cultural productions celebrate the earthy Dublin writer’s legacy

Sara Keating: Arts in Ireland in danger of losing a generation of audiences

At risk of losing ‘a generation of audiences’, it’s vital that we make provision for the important role of culture in children’s and young adults’ lives

Sara Keating: Pride’s proud defiance subtly mirrored in Tennessee William’s tense play

The Glass Menagerie, showing in Cork where far-right activists have objected to LGBTQ+ literature in the city library, was inspired by the playwright’s struggle with his sexuality and his difficult family life

Sara Keating: The Irish pub is centre stage in immersive soap opera The Local

The play, staged by Asylum Productions as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival, is performed in a live pub and set in the 1990s – a fascinating time for social change

Sara Keating: Game on – Butler Gallery’s new exhibition highlights connection between art and sport

The Art of Sport, a multimedia exhibition soon to open at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, showcases the work of Irish and international artists through their expression of the spirit of sport

Sara Keating: Irish theatre makers pack up in preparation for Edinburgh Fringe

The Scottish showcase connects artists with a wider community of theatre producers and audiences from further afield

Sara Keating: Galway International Arts Festival offers a cornucopia of sensory experiences

This year’s event offers a wonderful mix of artistic experiences and installations

Sara Keating: Gate’s excellent Fun Home reverberates with echoes of theatre’s own LGBTQ+ history

Musical adaptation of the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel gets a wonderfully offbeat production featuring mostly Irish musical theatre stars

Sarah Keating: Titanic tragedy sung on a human scale

Unlike previous tellings of the disaster, which have focused on the epic image of the fall of a leviathan ship, Thom Southerland’s production of the musical draws our attention to the stories of those lost, many unnecessarily

Sara Keating: Traveller Pride Week gives a poetic voice to marginalised group

How Rosaleen McDonagh reclaimed the derogatory term which is normally used to describe members of the minority community

Sara Keating on culture: Art can spark radical acts of empathy in difficult times

How do we separate the art from the nation in times of war? A book withdrawn from publication and a Ukrainian company performing an Irish classic may help answer that question

Sara Keating: Cork Midsummer Festival offers a celebration of cross-disciplinary collaborations

Highlight of the annual multi-disciplinary arts festival this year is Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, with Cork actress Siobhán McSweeney in the role of the playwright’s iconic heroine Winnie

National Gallery director Caroline Campbell on postcards, paintings, and championing women

As an exhibition of the works of trail-blazing artist Lavinia Fontana is in situ at the National Gallery, its first woman director shares her vision for its future

Sarah Keating: West Side Story dances to tune of tragic romance for the ages

Leonard Bernstein’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet comes to the stage of Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and this version is a real treat

Sara Keating: Day immortalised in Ulysses blossoms into boundless celebration at Bloomsday Festival

Highlight of this year’s Bloomsday Festival is a revival of CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s multisensory Go to Blazes, and Joyce himself would be delighted with the varied programme on offer