In the middle of town in Sligo sits a statue of Rabindranath Tagore, the bearded Indian Nobel Laureate and…
Which Yeats? There are many versions of William Butler Yeats (b 1865 d 1939), Ireland’s most famous poet, dramatist, critic,…
Introduction The Field Day Theatre Company began as an artistic collaboration between playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. In 1980, the…
“Cultural bastards, Janet, cultural bastards. Dat is what we is.” Out on Main Street Biography Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland…
“I know being a woman for me for a long time was being less, being excluded, being somehow cheap, being…
Biography Born 9 January 1929, Catholic, in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel is one of Ireland’s most…
Biography Roddy Doyle was born in 1958 in Dublin, Ireland. He attended St. Fintan’s Christian Brothers School in Sutton and later…
Biography Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944 and lived in Ireland until she was six years old. At…