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Something for the Weekend: Clare Monnelly's cultural picks

Choice cultural picks from the acclaimed writer and performer...

Something For The Weekend • 29 Aug 19

Edna O'Brien's new novel Girl hits bookshops this week

Culture 10 - the week's cultural highlights, digested

And how was your week? Here's our handy tip sheet of Cultural musts for the next seven days...

Culture 10 • 06 Sep 19

Karen Cogan writes and stars in Drip Feed at this year's Dublin Fringe

Drip Feed: Karen Cogan on her blistering new play

Dublin Fringe preview: Cork theatremaker Karen Cogan brings her blistering new play Drip Feed to Dublin Fringe; here, she writes for Culture about sexuality, stagnation and writing about the messiness of growing up female and queer in Ireland.

Theatre • 21 Sep 18

I Am Dynamite - disrupting the culture at Dublin Fringe

Dublin Fringe preview: Rosa Abbott talks to RTE Culture about concepts of free speech and free thinking, which have been co-opted by conservatives asking how should artists reclaim these for ourselves.

Dublin Fringe • 13 Sep 18

3 Cultural Things To Do This Weekend

Have we got Culture recommendations for you! A trio of must-see happenings this weekend...

Cultural Happenings • 14 Sep 18

Fragments - the fragility of memory explored through dance

Dublin Fringe preview: Choreographer Jessie Keenan writes for Culture about Fragments, her new dance piece about the fragility of memory, and the childhood experience of her grandfather's dementia, currently playing at the Complex, Dublin.

Dublin Fringe • 11 Sep 18

Everything I Do: the sibling duo expressing the inexpressible

Dublin Fringe preview: Dynamic duo, siblings, and former band-mates Maud Lee & Zoe Ní Rioidáin (aka Maud in Cahoots) have created a unique piece of theatre for this year's Dublin Fringe.

Dublin Fringe • 10 Sep 18

I am an Astronaut - homeless life on the streets of Dublin

Dublin Fringe preview: Joe Wright's spoken-word multi-media theare piece, Astronaut, is inspired by the 2016 Apollo House takeover.

Theatre • 11 Sep 18

Confessions of a Seahorse - Christiane O Mahony on her new play

Dublin Fringe preview: Christiane O Mahony writes for Culture about her new show, a 'surreal underwater experience about trying to be grown-up and wishing you were a seahorse'.

Theatre • 05 Sep 18

Liv O'Donoghue on dancing at the end of the world

Dublin Fringe preview: Exploring the stages of a post-apocalyptic breakdown, Irish-Norwegian dance artist Liv O'Donoghue writes for Culture about her new show, AFTER, a 'live documentary film for the end of the world'.

Dublin Fringe • 07 Sep 18

Philip Connaughton and long-time collaborator Lucia Kickham feature in Assisted Solo

Assisted Solo - decoding dementia through dance

Dublin Fringe Preview: Dancer and choreographer Phillip Connaughton writes for Culture about his new show, Assisted Solo, a 'raw allegory of life' inspired by his mother's struggle with dementia.

Dublin Fringe • 03 Sep 18

Eric O'Brien stars in Colm Keegan's debut play, For Saoirse.

A Dubliner in crisis - Colm Keegan on his new play

Dublin Fringe preview: Playwright Colm Keegan writes for Culture about his debut play, For Saoirse, which plays at axis: Ballymun from Sept. 19 – 22nd.

Theatre • 28 Aug 18

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