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During the 1916 Easter Rising, women of the Irish Citizen Army (Cumann na mBan), the Clan na nGaedhal Girl Scouts and individual women fought side by side with their male counterparts. Dr. Mary McAuliffe takes a close look at their unsung contributions during the first decades of the Irish Free State. Thursday 21 January at the Abbey Theatre

Lian Bell, Loughlin Deegan and Eleanor Methven will present on what is happening in the WakingTheFeminists campaign and discuss it from their own perspectives. Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre

Jesse Jones, Sarah Browne, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Sarah Jane Scaife. JESSE JONES AND SARAH BROWNE – IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE Taking place in the context of the Irish State centenary, artists Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne discuss their exploration of statehood from the perspective of the female body. FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR – THE CASEMENT PROJECT The Casement Project is a choreography of bodies and ideas that takes place across multiple platforms and national boundaries. It dances with the queer body of British peer, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement to ask: Who gets to be in the national body? How could the national body move? Might Casement’s legacy be a flourishing diversity of citizen-bodies? SARAH JANE SCAIFE – BECKETT IN THE CITY How is it possible for Beckett’s abstract, modernist works to speak to the trauma of ‘unruly’ female bodies long hidden and controlled? Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre

Storyteller and performer Nuala Hayes offers a prelude to our gathering at The Theatre of Change Symposium. Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre

In this podcast Sean Holmes Director of The Plough and the Stars talks about arguing with Ireland, the outsiders eye and hearing meaning for the first time. He talks about the prevalence of homelessness, the anger of O'Casey and asks who is Irish and where does that leave us? [140316 Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy]

Éist le aisteoir Mary Louise McCarthy agus ceoltóir Rónán Ó Snodaigh ar an téama: cad a chiallaionn se a bheith Eireannach? #SnaG2016

Éist le Manchán Magan, amhránaí Enda Reilly agus file Séamas Barra Ó Suilleabháin ar an téama Mo Cheol Thú

The Mis-Identification of David Ireland: Writer of Cyprus Avenue David Ireland talks Irishness, audiences and authority; alongside Gods, Devils and David Mamet.

Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre, Vicky Featherstone talks to Lisa Farrelly about directing Cyprus Avenue, the alchemy of writers and the brilliance of David Ireland. Sound Operator Ben Delaney 04.02.2016

Thomas Kilroy: playwright. by AbbeyTheatre

Actor Niall Buggy talks about his beginnings with the Abbey Theatre, suspensions of disbelief and the challenges of Shaw & O'Casey. Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy 050116

Actor, director, and playwright Eamon Morrissey recalls his extraordinary career in Irish theatre.

'Tis the season to be singing: Take a little time & enjoy actors Aileen Mythen, Damian Kearney & musician Kieran McEvoy as they serenade us through a lively recording of CHRISTMAS MORNING by Frank O'Connor. [Taken from a Christmas Noble Call 2013] [With kind permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop.All text copyright of Frank O'Connor] Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy

Brush up on your Bernard Shaw with a triple play of talks with Pygmalion director Annabelle Comyn (Pt 1) Theatre critic Emer O'Kelly (Pt 2)and director of Heartbreak House Roisin McBrinn (Pt 3)

The collaborative process behind the creation of 'The Great Hunger' by Tom MacIntyre is recounted by the playwright, director Patrick Mason, actors Tom Hickey and Bríd Ní Neachtain.

Oedipus director Wayne Jordan talks to Mark O'Halloran about revisions & collisions ,reading his life backwards and how there will always be outsiders(Part Two) Sound Operator:Derek Conaghy

Director Wayne Jordan talks to writer & actor Mark O'Halloran about adapting a new version of Oedipus, intellectual rigour and seeing colour in black & white. Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy

Actor Susan Lynch talks to Lisa Farrelly about her character Hester Swane in Marina Carr's By The Bog of Cats, creative fulfillment and the collective experience of theatre. Sound Operator: Ben Delaney

It's been seventeen years since Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats played on the Abbey stage, how will audiences respond to it now?In this podcast Marina talks about the early years, the intervening years, privacy and the cautionary tale that is Medea. Sound Operator: Ben Delaney

Actor Amy McAllister talks about her role as Minnie Powell in Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman on the Abbey stage and being the very best of the worst as a UK Anti Slam Champion. Sound Operator: Ben Delaney