Temple Bar "is working" says Arts Minister
Jimmy Deenihan calls Dublin city area a “cultural oasis” during Absolut Fringe Festival 2011 launch.
View ArticleDublin Fringe’s Macnas event called off due to high winds
The event set for Collins’ Barracks this evening is cancelled for health and safety reasons, with high winds shaking the capital.
View ArticleWhat happened in 2010? The show that YOU wrote
Must-see project at ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 reveals the day-by-day diaries of ordinary Irish people throughout the tumultuous last year.
View ArticleWIN: Night in 4-star hotel and ABSOLUT Fringe tickets ... tonight
Fancy a night on the town in Dublin tonight courtesy of ABSOLUT Fringe and Brooks Hotel? Read on…
View Article5 questions for the Fringe: Frisky & Mannish
Each day for the 16 days of ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 in Dublin, we quiz the creatives on how they work, why they work – and their tips for the festival.
View ArticleIn pics: What goes into making an aerial circus show?
A troupe performing at ABSOLUT Fringe in Dublin next month have given TheJournal.ie a behind-the-scenes peek at the work that goes into hitting the heights (but not the ceiling).
View ArticleIs this what Irish blues sound like?
Little John Nee plays a rock’n'roll showman with the blues in Sparkplug – and we like it.
View ArticleNutshell review: Elevator
Every day, TheJournal.ie brings you reader-generated reviews of the hottest tickets at the ABSOLUT Fringe Festival 2012.
View ArticleColumn: How we fell in love, separated, and became circus performers
Tina Segner and Ken Fanning tell their story: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl join the circus…
View ArticleColumn: Growing up between Inis Oírr… and Ballymun
When Martin Sharry was seven, he moved from Ballymun to Inis Oírr. The two places are very different, he writes, but not without similarities.
View ArticleColumn: What happens to the people failed by our education system?
Playwright Amy Conroy talks about her experience of education in Ireland – and how the frustrations it provoked led to the questions posed in her new show.
View ArticleMaeve Higgins: Setting up home in London is exciting... but I still love you,...
After emigrating to London last year, comedian Maeve Higgins thought she’d get a kick from visiting her Dublin as a tourist one weekend – but it just made her realise how much she missed it.
View ArticleActivists and outsiders: Unsung heroes celebrated in the Dublin Fringe Festival
The 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival, launched today, offers a celebration of political and social engagement by new and returning artists over 18 days of exciting and thought-provoking shows.
View ArticleThe Late David Turpin: "I died for 28 seconds"
The Dublin musician speaks to us about how a near-death experience influenced his latest album.
View ArticleOpinion: 'Peig Sayers represents our complexity and there is a little of her...
The Sayers family were Protestant Cromwellian landed genrty whose descendent ended up being one of the most famous storytellers in Europe, speaking the Irish language.
View ArticleOpinion: 'We Irish deal with things with a sense of humour - even cancer'
The reaction is sometimes to ignore a situation, or keep it private. An attitude which we all know affects the perceptions of depression and mental health, writes Neil Douglas.
View ArticleThis is the funniest joke of the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The award went to British comic Masai Graham.
View ArticleTom Clonan: My dance debut tonight will bring me back to conflict's heart of...
‘My tour of duty as an Irish peacekeeper was brutal, violent and profoundly shocking. It changed me. I never came back.’
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