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William Trevor: an Irish writer, an international writer, a great writer. Photograph: Eric Luke Eileen Battersby on William Trevor: He made the ordinary and familiar, new and shocking
  • Books
  • Eileen Battersby
  • November 21, 2016

Trevor was a world class writer who looked to the forgotten, the despairing losers, the innocent and the devious

Seven Irish writers on longlist for world’s richest literary prize Seven Irish writers on longlist for world’s richest literary prize
  • Books
  • Eileen Battersby
  • November 21, 2016

John Banville, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Anne Enright, Louise O’Neill, Nuala O’Connor and Edna O’Brien on 147-strong longlist

William Trevor, award-winning writer, dies at the age of 88 William Trevor, award-winning writer, dies at the age of 88
  • Culture
  • Elaine Edwards
  • November 21, 2016

Writer was born in Mitchelstown in Co Cork and educated at Trinity College Dublin

A timely literary road trip around the world A timely literary road trip around the world
  • Books
  • Eileen Battersby
  • November 21, 2016

The 147 titles on the International Dublin Literary Award longlist are a treasure trove of great reading

Confessions of a clickbait creator – AMAZING! LOL! Confessions of a clickbait creator – AMAZING! LOL!
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • November 21, 2016

My ex-employer is now struggling, publishing attention-grabbing stories but getting no traction

Kanye West rants against Beyoncé and Hillary Clinton - then storms off stage Kanye West rants against Beyoncé and Hillary Clinton - then storms off stage
  • Music
  • November 21, 2016

Rapper caps troubled week by walking off stage after just three songs and then pulling out of his next show

Mike Pence goes to the theatre - and lights up the culture wars all over again Mike Pence goes to the theatre - and lights up the culture wars all over again
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 21, 2016

What do we make of US vice-president-elect’s visit to the stage musical Hamilton, and Donald Trump’s Twitter review?

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announces new push against fake news Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announces new push against fake news
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Alan Yuhas
  • November 21, 2016

“We take misinformation seriously,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post over the weekend

Donal Dineen’s Sunken Treasure: Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares Donal Dineen’s Sunken Treasure: Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
  • Music
  • Donal Dineen
  • November 20, 2016

The splendour of the voices and notes are pitched so uncommonly high there’s a feeling of being airborne, floating across unfathomed seas and spaces

TV preview: The Affair, Two Doors Down, David Walliams and more TV preview: The Affair, Two Doors Down, David Walliams and more
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • November 20, 2016

Trouble is brewing as Dominic West and Ruth Wilson return for a third series of the Sky Atlantic drama

Latest Film

Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy birthday, Mr President’ dress sells for record $4.8m
  • Film
  • November 18, 2016
Dan Fogler and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - JK Rowling’s tale is a magical delight
Iggy Pop and The Stooges in Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger Gimme Danger review: Iggy Pop is the last Stooge standing
  • Indignation review: Logan Lerman shines in stirring Philip Roth adaptation
  • Your Name review: a twisty, amnesiac, body-swap, eco-disaster, aching love story

Latest Music

Stupid For You: Texan pop-punk trio Waterparks Pop Corner: Alicia Keys on her blended family; Waterparks take the pop-punk crown
  • Music
  • Ailbhe Malone
  • November 21, 2016
Kanye West: Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg targeted before walking off stage in Sacramento. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Kanye West rants against Beyoncé and Hillary Clinton - then storms off stage
Them bones: Aoife McCann and Ellie McMahon from AE MAC Nialler9's New Irish Music: Mango, The Notas, Meltybrains? and more
  • Chance The Rapper, Kanye West and hip-hop's higher calling
  • Maser the street artist: I did the Brown Thomas windows for the wedge

Latest Books

William Trevor: an Irish writer, an international writer, a great writer. Photograph: Eric Luke Eileen Battersby on William Trevor: He made the ordinary and familiar, new and shocking
  • Books
  • Eileen Battersby
  • November 21, 2016
William Trevor in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons A complete gentleman, a master craftsman: writers salute William Trevor
Children’s Books Ireland is disappointed that, in the discourse around Irish Book Award winning picturebook Pigín of Howth, the book’s illustrator, Margaret Anne Suggs, is frequently omitted Pigín of Howth book award controversy: three sides of the story
  • A timely literary road trip around the world

TV & Radio

Veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne in studio for his Lyric FM programme from which he is obliged to take a break due to illness. Photograph: The Irish Times Why Gay Byrne is Ireland’s greatest broadcaster
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Hugh Linehan
  • November 21, 2016
Many women journalists receive graphic threats of physical and sexual violence on social media according to recent reports by the International Women’s Media Foundation. Women journalists often targeted with ‘threats and hate’
I would write headlines in a very specific style (“You Won’t Believe So-And-So Did This! AMAZING! LOL!”). Photograph: Getty Images Confessions of a clickbait creator – AMAZING! LOL!
  • Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announces new push against fake news
  • TV preview: The Affair, Two Doors Down, David Walliams and more

Screenwriter

Movie quiz for November 19th
  • Donald Clarke

I recall the yellow cotton dress foaming like a wave on the ground around your knees

The Subtitle Festival returns to Kilkenny
  • Donald Clarke

Ireland's loveliest small city again presents an array of European cinema

On The Record

Metallica and YouTube
  • Jim Carroll

It's clear from Lars Ulrich that this move was part of wanting an level playing field for all their fans

Archive: Sharon Jones
  • Jim Carroll

A 2008 interview with the soul trooper who died at the weekend

Film Reviews

Dan Fogler and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

 
Iggy Pop and The Stooges in Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger Gimme Danger

 
Logan Lerman as the rebellious student Marcus in Indignation Indignation

 
Unlike most body-swap comedies, the rules are not so apparent. Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa)

 
Lou de Laâge, centre, playing Mathilde Beaulieu in The Innocents The Innocents

 
Ewan McGregor (who also directs) as Seymour “Swede” Levov in American Pastoral American Pastoral

 

Stage

IActor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Arron Burr in Hamilton, speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest celebrity to attend the Broadway hit but the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage. (Hamilton LLC via AP) Mike Pence goes to the theatre - and lights up the culture wars all over again
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 21, 2016

What do we make of US vice-president-elect’s visit to the stage musical Hamilton, and Donald Trump’s Twitter review?

Ballet Ireland’s The Nutcracker The Nutcracker review: captures the spirit of the season admirably
Inmates out: Andrew Bennett and Mark O’Halloran in The Importance of Nothing The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed
  • Honest review: time for a profanity-laden lunchbreak, perhaps?
  • Waking The Feminists supporters say ‘one more thing’

Albums

Prince: Prince4Ever

 
A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here…Thank You For 4 Your service

 
Metallica: Hardwired... to Self-Destruct

 
TASSEOMANCY: Do Easy

 
Oddsocks: The Sound of the City

 
Frank Harte: When Adam Was A Boy

 

Unthinkable

Denominational schools in Berlin can teach religious education through their own faith, as well as an ethics course, but they cannot skip the latter. Photograph: Cesar Manso/AFP/Getty How religion can be taught in a ‘neutral’ way
  • Culture
  • Joe Humphreys
  • November 21, 2016

Irish schools introducing the new ‘religions and ethics’ course can learn from the Berlin experience

The secret of happiness is practising compassion, says the Dalai Lama, pictured on a visit to Ireland in 2011. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Want a kinder world? Then seek help
“The policy consensus on climate change in Ireland is very shallow.” Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images Has democracy become a threat to the planet?
  • What Aristotle can teach us about friendship
  • Does science have all the answers?

Michael Viney's Another Life

Long-distance swimmer: one Irish eel covered 6,900km in 10 months. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Tracking the way to Sargasso for Ireland’s silver eels

We used to think that eels sped to meet up in the Sargasso Sea for a single, springtime orgy, but it seems some are quite happy to take their time

The freshwater pearl mussel, which has been singled out for special threat of extinction. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Looking after natural world is ever more complex task
In the 1980s there were about 5,000 breeding pairs of curlew in the Republic; today, surveys have found fewer than 150 pairs. Conservationists turn gamekeeper to protect lapwing and curlew
  • Mountain falls, mountain rescue: whose risk at the high path to ecstasy?
  • Another Life: Autumn and the sound of several leaves falling

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks

Silent Moves: the title and action of the piece recall the slapstick comedy of Buster Keaton Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2015 – Silent Moves, by Aideen Barry, Emma O’Kane, Ridgepool Training Centre and Scannán Technologies
  • Catherine Marshall
  • October 15, 2016

The people’s choice for our final artwork was a collaborative project about the challenges faced by people with intellectual disabilities in a society that still restricts their behaviour

Dramatic: the Saw Swee Hock centre bursts up, out and through its medieval-London landscape Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2014 – Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, by O’Donnell + Tuomey
Sinéad Morrissey: more than one way to view history Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2013 – Parallax, by Sinéad Morrissey
  • Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2012 – Commonage, by Culturstruction
  • Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2011 – Laundry, by Louise Lowe
  • Treibh
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Heritage
IMAGEX2COL_B_WEB Altú agus buíochas – dán agus dinnéar
  • Treibh
  • Cathal de Paor
  • November 21, 2016, 06:30

Beidh an t-aisíoc le déanamh ina dhiaidh, agus ní i bhfocail, ach i bhfiacha

Melania Trump. grianghraf: reuters/carlo allegri Melania agus mná eile
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • November 21, 2016, 06:15

Slán go deo le Maura, Máirín, Moira, Mary, Marie, Maarie, Maureen, Mariya...

Caitríona Hastings, scríbhneoir. grianghraf: peter harkin Triúr scríbhneoirí ag léamh i nGaillimh anocht
  • Treibh
  • November 21, 2016, 06:00

SEANOCOINN_WEB Spreagadh atá de dhíth ar lucht na Gaeilge
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • November 14, 2016, 09:16

Beidh obair mhór roimh fhear nua an fhorais

An fearann a goideadh. grianghraf: frank lerner/time life pictures/getty images Iarmhar an áir sna Stáit Neamhaontaithe
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • November 14, 2016, 06:30

Tá USA inchlúisibh – seachas dóibh siúd ar goideadh an fearann uathu

grianghraf: joe st leger/the irish times Gile na gealaí le feiceáil anocht
  • Treibh
  • Cathal de Paor
  • November 14, 2016, 06:10

Tá seans againn iomlán na gealaí a fheiceáil agus í níos gile ná mar a chonaic formhór againn riamh í

IMAGEX1COL_B-_WEB Ollscoil Chorcaí le comóradh a dhéanamh ar Ó Ríordáin
  • Treibh
  • November 14, 2016, 06:08

Donald Trump agus Hillary Clinton. grianghraf: chip somodevilla/getty images Cúrsaí Oireachtais – i gcéin is i gcóngar, anallód agus amárach
  • Treibh
  • Cathal de Paor
  • November 7, 2016, 09:06

Ar stailc. grianghraf: nick bradshaw/the irish times Stuaic agus stailc
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • November 7, 2016, 06:29

Téann daoine ar stailc lena míshástacht a chur in iúl don phobal mhór

LOT15LAVERYTHEGOLFLINKSSOTHEBYSNOVEMBER2016THESCOTTIS_WEB Lavery’s breezy golf scene among Irish art for sale in London
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 19, 2016, 00:00

Auction includes a Jack B Yeats painting expected to make €230,000

Sotheby’s auctioneer Oliver Barker fields bids at the sale of David Bowie’s art collection. Photograph: Michael Bowles/Getty Images Mystery Irish buyer ‘thrilled’ with David Bowie’s art auction
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 19, 2016, 00:00

Singer’s entire collection is sold, including pieces by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy

The IS porringer (€4,600-€7,000) Rare Irish silver porridge bowl turns up in Essex
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 19, 2016, 00:00

Bowl made in Dublin in 1659 for auction

FONSIEMEALYLOT908FIRSTWORLDWARHERONOVEMBER2016-45Q_WEB Auctions & Fairs: results and forthcoming events
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 19, 2016, 00:00

A 1914 Talbot Invincible vintage car sells for €35,000

Chinese bronze turns to gold for Irish vendor in London auction
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 19, 2016, 00:00

Figure depicting Chinese war god Guandi sells for £371,000 – 25 times top estimate

Waiting by Leo Whelan, up for auction at €60,000 to €80,000 after selling in 2007 for €265,000 How to build a pension pot from art
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 17, 2016, 11:00

Collection proved a nice earner for owners when it was leased to Four Seasons hotel

PATODONOVAN2_WEB Life’s Work: Pat O’Donovan, antiques auctioneer, Newcastle West, Co Limerick
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 12, 2016, 00:00

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Auctions & Fairs: recent results and upcoming sales
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 12, 2016, 00:00

An 18th-century side table by William Moore and an Escher woodcut are among the lots

A rare set of late 18th-century “Galway” rosary beads: to go under the hammer next week, estimated at €400-€600 Dromoland Castle heirlooms, Harry Clarke stained glass and a vintage car
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • November 12, 2016, 00:00

Plain people of Ireland represented at Chatsworth Fine Art Sale by rare rosary beads

AD_1955_WEB From the archive: Knitted undies from the shores of Botany Bay
  • Heritage
  • Arminta Wallace
  • November 19, 2016, 02:00

Published: September 22nd, 1955

President Michael D Higgins’s name comes from the Old Scandinavian “vikingr”, meaning “sea rover”. President’s name traced to Vikings but Kenny proves elusive
  • Heritage
  • Frank McNally
  • November 18, 2016, 01:00

Study traces linguistic history and distribution of 45,000 British and Irish surnames

  • 11 shares
Many surnames have been around for centuries. Photograph: Tetra Images/Getty History of 50,000 Irish and British surnames published
  • Heritage
  • November 17, 2016, 09:03

Four-year study of records dating back to 11th century gets to root of family names

  • 92 shares
FOCHIMAGE_WEB Allied commander’s tribute to Irish in first World War recalled
  • Heritage
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • November 12, 2016, 06:00

New memorial in Glasnevin Cemetery pays tribute to the soldiers who died in France

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  • 6 shares
Poets ponder the meaning of ‘mind the gap
  • Heritage
  • Arminta Wallace
  • November 12, 2016, 01:00

Published: July 7th, 1989

Salvaged: one of the telegraph machines from the sunken ship ‘Lusitania’. Photograph: Eoin McGarry ‘Lusitania’ telegraph machine recovered off Co Cork
  • Heritage
  • Patsy McGarry
  • October 31, 2016, 18:31

Nearly 1,200 died when the ship sank after being struck by a torpedo in May 1915

  • 4 shares
WKRURAL_WEB Let there be light: the day all Ireland went electric
  • Heritage
  • Rosita Boland
  • October 29, 2016, 06:00

In our new series, we look at how people reacted to the arrival of electricity 70 years ago

  • 3 shares
The Times We Lived In: Bad hair day – smitten by a squall in the city
  • Heritage
  • Arminta Wallace
  • October 29, 2016, 06:00

Published: November 13th, 1991Photograph by Frank Miller

Retired cooper Jack Moore outside the disused distillery that was transformed into the Kilbeggan Distillery Experience. Photograph: Peter Thursfield The Times We Lived In: Jack Moore, Kilbeggan cooper
  • Heritage
  • Arminta Wallace
  • October 23, 2016, 14:21

Published: May 16th, 1987. Photograph by Peter Thursfield

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