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New play highlights improbable friendship between boxer Gene Tunney and Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw

‘Shaw vs. Tunney,’ by Doug Post, is making its world premiere at Theatre Wit this week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Michael Hiltzik: Conservative attacks on abortion depend on a law that courts have snubbed for 100 years

Nothing reflects that show-stopping lyric "everything old is new again" like the tactics of the antiabortion movement — specifically, its reliance on a long-discredited 1873 law to eviscerate women's healthcare rights in the modern age.

Los Angeles Times

Gareth Smyth obituary

Other lives: Political journalist who covered the Middle East for 30 years, from the UK and as the Financial Times’s chief Iran correspondent in Tehran

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Ireland's Oscar winning history as stars hope for success at this year's Academy Awards

Ireland has had some major success at the Academy Awards over the years

Dublin Live

The rubber tree and the hopeful ant

Throughout January PostScript has been written from my house balcony in Chaiyaphum while taking in a view of avenues of rubber trees with the occasional intrusion of stray chickens. In fact, I am surrounded by rubber trees.

Bangkok Post

Arms and the Man review – Shaw’s women show their steel

This 1894 farce set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war is impeccably played in a production showing the playwright’s radical vision still resonates

The Guardian - UK

Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Caroline Quentin’s bewitching madam

George Bernard Shaw’s discomfiting play finds a commanding lead in Quentin, playing alongside her real-life daughter Rose

The Guardian - UK

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By all means cry God for Harry, England and St George. Just don’t puff out your chest too far

A new production of Henry V has been called a ‘woke King Harry’ – but Englishness has always been complex

The Guardian - UK

James Roose-Evans obituary

Founder director of the Hampstead theatre club who brought landmark productions to the London stage

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: TE Lawrence felt ‘bitter shame’ over UK’s false promises of Arab self rule

Deleted chapter of book by British spy who supported Arab revolt reveals his true feelings about insincere pledge of self-government

The Guardian - UK

Mona Hammond obituary

Trailblazer for black actors in Britain best known for her roles in EastEnders and Desmond’s

The Guardian - UK

First Irish Naval visit to Scotland for over 10 years arrives in Glasgow

The Irish Naval Vessel LÉ George Bernard Shaw arrived in the city this week.

Daily Record

Women told to share public toilets with men with council blaming lack of funds

A set of public toilets are the latest topic of debate in Camden, London, with some describing the move for women to share them with men as "utter madness"

Daily Mirror

Denise Coffey obituary

Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheek

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