As Corcadorca puts on Patrick McCabe’s play at Elizabeth Fort, Colette Sheridan goes behind the scenes to see the logistics of mounting a production at such a venue

A special edition of The Stinging Fly journal may look back to 1916, but it really reflects the rude health of modern Irish literature, writes Marjorie Brennan

Five things from the worlds of arts, culture and film to keep you occupied this week

RICKSHAW drivers occupy a ubiquitous presence on the streets of the West End. But most Londoners never even give them a moment’s thought.

Dermot Bolger talks to Tony Clayton-Lea about his new book Tanglewood and how he believes that the introduction of free secondary education in the late 1960s was at the root of the 1980s burst of Irish creativity.

Former government minister Des O’Malley has said he would sue Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald if she made allegations about him having an offshore Ansbacher account outside the Dáil chamber.

Senior gardaí have asked the chairman of the Dáil to stop TDs from making "adverse" comments and "damaging allegations" in the chamber about members of the force.

The Arts Council has published the full list of nominees for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

There are a couple of distinguishing aspects to Dublin’s largest book festival.

Hello and Goodbye

THE Big Yum Yum is the unusual title of Patrick McCabe’s new play, which centres on a party and a showband.

IRISH writer Julian Gough, who satirises our banking crisis in his witty novella, Crash! How I Lost A Hundred Billion and Found True Love, says living in Berlin gives him perspective on home.

HIGHLIGHT of the Cork International Short Story Festival (Sept 18-22) will be a reading by, and public interview with David Constantine, winner of the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award at Triskel Christchurch on Sept 22.

Next weekend’s concert at the Olympia honours the musician, says Ed Power

An Garda Síochána repeatedly refused to make any information available to the Irish Examiner on its two-year investigation into how gardaí handled allegations of clerical abuse in the Murphy Report.

Gardaí and successive archbishops and bishops in Dublin have been harshly criticised in a just-released chapter of the Murphy Report for conniving to stop a serial paedophile from being brought to justice.

A former priest whose abuse of children in the 1970s and 1980s was featured in the Murphy Report will walk free this weekend despite receiving an 18-month jail term.

A former priest who admitted sexually abusing two 13-year-old boys in the 1970s is likely to walk free from prison despite being jailed for 18 months.

A former priest who sexually abused two 13-year-old boys in the 1970s in Dublin and Kildare has received an 18-month jail sentence today.

Long Time, No See

IN A case of new wine in old bottles, multi-pub owner Benny McCabe this weekend opens a city wine and food bar in one of Cork’s oldest retail buildings, one that served as a pharmacy for close to a century.

An Irish ex-priest has appeared in court in Dublin on indecent assault charges following his extradition from the United States.

SLANE is over for another year but Irish festival season is only beginning.

ABOUT 3,000 book enthusiasts are set to descend on Ennis today for the fifth annual Ennis Book Club Festival.

THE Stray Sod Country is a metaphor, a fable which the characters of Patrick McCabe’s new novel continually fall back on. It describes being lost in what were once reassuring surroundings, being intimidated or deceived by the very things that used to make you feel secure. It is a way of explaining things, “frightening emotions, things like depression or extreme loneliness”.

A man who says he was molested by an Irish priest in 1984 when he was nine, is suing California’s Diocese of Santa Rosa.

FILM lovers are expected to flock to west Cork next month where the best of talented young cinematographers will showcase their work.

LEBANESE writer Rawi Hage yesterday won the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award — the world’s most lucrative book prize.

AN INVESTIGATION into the death of a fisherman has found that neither he nor his colleagues were wearing life jackets or flotation devices.

Tensions have increased in Bosnia-Herzegovina since Kosovo declared independence but Irish troops are safe, Defence Minister Willie O’Dea said tonight.

SIX Irish books have been nominated for the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.

Six Irish writers have been included on the long-list for next year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

The following is the Leinster Under-20 team to face Ulster in Saturday's Interprovincial final in Buccaneers RFC (KO: 4pm):

Four of Ireland’s renowned playwrights have joined forces with four celebrated actors for the Dublin Theatre Festival, it emerged today.

The following is the Leinster under-20 team to play Connacht in Greystones RFC on Saturday (KO: 4pm):

Leinster Under-20’s got their Interprovincial campaign back on track with a fine 19-9 victory over Munster at Musgrave Park on today.

The Leinster Under-20 team to face Munster in Musgrave Park on Saturday (KO: 3pm) has been named.

A post mortem on the body of the man who was found in a freezer in Galway last week has shown he died of a head injury.

THE curtain comes down on a successful IRB under 19 World Championship in Belfast today, with the host nation bidding to finish on a positive note when they face Scotland in the 9th Place Play-Off Final at Ravenhill (3pm).

Ireland coach Charlie McAleese has rung the changes once more to the Ireland U19 team that will play Scotland in the ninth place playoff in the U19 IRB U19 World Championship tomorrow in Ravenhill.

A TOURNAMENT that started so promisingly for Ireland U19s now sees the hosts fighting for respectability.

There are several changes both in personal and position to the Ireland U-19 team to play Japan U19 in the IRB U-19 World Championship tomorrow in Shaw’s Bridge, Belfast.

Ireland U-19 13 Scotland U-19 12