Deirdre Falvey
Editor and Writer at Irish Times
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Deirdre Falvey
On Tuesday afternoon, February 11th 2025, 34-year-old Adam Loughnane walked into the emergency department of University Hospital Galway. He had contacted his support worker from homeless charity Cope that morning, crying, saying he was feeling numb. They drank tea, then rang the local mental health unit together and were told he should present at UHG’s emergency department (ED). The support worker drove him to hospital.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Deirdre Falvey
Brendan Gleeson is to act on stage for the first time in a decade in Dublin this August, in a new production of The Weir, the play written – and now, for the first time, directed – by Conor McPherson. After its four-week run at the 3Olympia Theatre ends, on September 6th, the show, which is being staged by Landmark Productions and Kate Horton Productions, will transfer to London for a 12-week run that will be Gleeson’s West End debut.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Deirdre Falvey
An interest in astronomy was uncommon for a youngster in Türkiye, but for Kerem Cubuk growing up in the capital, Ankara, it was all he ever wanted to do. “Since early high school, I had only one dream, to become an astronomer. There was never a second option.” He did bachelor’s and master’s degrees in astronomy and space sciences. His middle-class background involved science – father a chemical engineer working for the state, mother a technician in an eye hospital – but no hint of space.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Deirdre Falvey
There must be nearly 50 people in Litton Hall. Stacks of chairs are pushed to the side of the audience area of the performance space at Wesley House, in Ranelagh in Dublin, which is often used for rehearsals. The curtains to the stage are closed, and sunlight is coming through a couple of high windows where the blinds aren’t down. There are plenty of backpacks, jackets and instrument cases. On a large desk near the door sit a few copies of the vocal score for Bach’s St Matthew Passion.
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3 weeks ago |
archive.ph | Deirdre Falvey
How different things were in the bad old 1950s, when Ireland was riven with censorship, its citizens’ artistic and academic freedoms curtailed. Or maybe we feel the echoes still. Dublin Theatre Festival recently acquired a letter that Samuel Beckett wrote on January 20th, 1958, warning that he might withdraw from that year’s event. It brings us back to the second year of the fledgling festival – one that didn’t happen in the end, because of the events Beckett is writing about.
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