# playwright

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# building and property

Dunnes stripped the insides of a new Blackrock store before clearing the planning system

The supermarket chain says it doesn’t need council approval for the works.

25.2k

Mar 21st 2019, 11:10 AM

# King of Comedy

World-renowned playwright Neil Simon has died, aged 91

The “patron saint of laughter” died in a New York hospital of complications from pneumonia.

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Aug 27th 2018, 8:34 AM

# playwright

A former landmark pub in Blackrock is set to become a Dunnes Stores

The sit of the Playwright pub has been vacant since 2011.

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Aug 14th 2018, 12:03 AM

# RIP

Tributes paid to 'great' playwright Tom Murphy, who has died aged 83

The death of the award-winning Galway playwright was announced last night.

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May 16th 2018, 7:23 AM

# delinquent season

'It can happen because you're in the wrong place at the wrong time': A movie about 'good people' having an affair

Writer and director Mark O’Rowe’s latest film is the next chapter in a diverse and lauded career.

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Apr 29th 2018, 10:34 AM

# Stigma

Adoption in Ireland: 'We're still going through it, we're still carrying the shame'

Playwright Noelle Brown, who was born in a mother and baby home, has written a play about her search for her birth mother.

12.4k

Jun 18th 2017, 8:15 AM

# no laughing matter

'It seems to be that we like our comedians clean and our politicians dirty'

Owen McCafferty’s new play is about a comedian selling his soul.

14.0k

Mar 21st 2015, 11:15 AM

# Samuel Beckett

Paris audience in "group hallucination" at the work of one of Ireland's literary giants

Beckett’s ‘Not I’ is an eight minute breathless monologue.

14.8k

Mar 14th 2015, 4:09 PM

# on the stage

"This area's gone to the f**king dogs": Why this writer was inspired by Dublin's rubbish problems

Meet Shaun Dunne, a young and exciting new playwright.

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Nov 2nd 2014, 4:30 PM

# RIP

Poet Seamus Heaney passes away aged 74

The Nobel laureate recently suffered from ill health, and was reported have collapsed earlier this week.

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Aug 30th 2013, 11:11 AM

Voices

Interview: Challenges have always existed for writers, but now they need even more support

It’s easy to see why young writers could be put off by projects with no guarantee of success but new playwrights need to make a leap of faith – they are the future of theatre, says Thomas Conway.

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Aug 8th 2013, 1:00 PM

# Oscar Wilde

Signed copy of The Importance of Being Earnest fetches $362,500 at Sotheby's

A signed first edition of Oscar Wilde’s play was bought for several times the estimate at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.

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Apr 21st 2012, 1:38 PM