Women’s portraits have been hung on the walls of the country’s leading academic body for the first time — 230 years after its foundation.

IN the arts, January is a quiet month. Yet last week, I saw two major plays, Druid’s production of Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn and the revival of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara.

Theatre - The Colleen Bawn