Irelandโ€™s big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors โ€“ and has had similarly seismic affects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?โ€˜If you know your Flann Oโ€™Brien, youโ€™ll know that bike mainten…

Exit, pursued by a panda: the Brits bringing eye-popping Shakespeare to the Baltics

The Winterโ€™s Tale is retold with a virtual reality plot set in Silicon Valley and hardly any lines from the original, staged at a bold Latvian theatre elevating English talentJohn Malkovich is directing Tom Stoppardโ€™s Leopoldstadt, there are dramas by …