A Soldier's Tale: the Team's report

The MAC provides visitors with a lovely setting in the middle of Belfast. For the performance of The Soldier's Tale the "Downstairs" was a perfect stage. Here Newry Chamber Music gave one of three performances of Stravinsky's opus, in collaboration with Irish actor Ciarán Hinds (narrator) and Emily Ayers (as the princess/dancer)...

Ciarán starring in The Thin Man

Ciarán will star in a comedy co-directed and written by Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love) and John Paul Davidson.

The Thin Man tells the story of a man journeying through France in a Fiat 500, chased by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane.

Those old enough to know what a Fiat 500 is, look forward to seeing Ciaran stuffing his 6' into a bubble car!

Ciarán joins Sinéad Cusack in new BBC series MotherFatherSon

Ciarán will play Richard Gere's father in a BBC series slated to air in 2019.

His long-time theatre partner Sinéad Cusack has also landed a part in the eight-episode thriller, set within systems of power in politics, media, and the police.

Ciarán awarded at the Ulster Tatler Awards

Ciarán attended the prestigious Ulster Tatler Awards, which took place on Thursday September 6th, in Belfast's City Hall, where he was awarded with the much desired Lifetime Achievement Award, joining Brian Friel (author of Translations), Sir James Galway, Marie Jones and other honoured Irish personalities.

The Ulster Tatler Awards celebrates the best that Northern Ireland has to offer in hospitality, beauty, and business. Members of the public were invited to recognize the great achievements and talents coming out of Northern Ireland.

First-hand news of First Man...

ignition sequence start ... 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 ... All engines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff As the saying goes it's better to talk to the organ grinder than to the monkey. We then asked Ciarán about his part in First Man. It's definitely Bob Gilruth, as stated in his CV, a regretful indication that even the supposed well-informed websites can be misled.

Ciarán excels in Brian Friel's Translations

Ciaran Hinds in Translations. Photo: Catherine Ashmore The cast are also excellent in bringing an authentic slice of rural Donegal to the London stage. Colin Morgan excels, but the standout performance comes from Game of Throne's Ciarán Hinds as the ruddy and defiant Hugh (Radio Times).

It comes alive when Ciarán Hinds steps on stage as the shambling, raging, charismatic schoolmaster Hugh, constantly barking at his students to tell him the derivations of Latin and Greek words. When he moves his head his shoulders and torso move with it, as if his back has been stiffened from drink and rain. Hinds has a way of bellowing quietly that makes him a force on stage (The Stage).