MusicKelly Moran: ‘It’s always inspiring to me how the people of Ireland have always been so outspoken’The Irish-American experimental composer, whose new album is gut-punchingly beautiful, on making music and standing up for what you believe inBy Ed Power●Tue Apr 23 2024 - 05:15
Subscriber OnlyHow poetry is helping us preserve our past - and question our assumptions of history Lucy Collins introduces Grief’s Broken Brow, 10 poems commissioned for the Poetry as Commemoration projectBy Lucy Collins●Tue Apr 23 2024 - 05:00
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Subscriber OnlyHow poetry is helping us preserve our past - and question our assumptions of history Lucy Collins introduces Grief’s Broken Brow, 10 poems commissioned for the Poetry as Commemoration project
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Politics is all about managing the present. What people need is a story of the futureUnthinkable: Individuals and society at large need a coherent storyline to give us hope for the futureBy Joe Humphreys
Kelly Moran: ‘It’s always inspiring to me how the people of Ireland have always been so outspoken’The Irish-American experimental composer, whose new album is gut-punchingly beautiful, on making music and standing up for what you believe inBy Ed Power
St Vincent: ‘I recently did an ancestry.com thing, and it was all Irish Catholics. That’s my rascal side’Annie Clark’s ever-morphing, visionary pop has won her consistent acclaim. She’s now inspiring young artists from The Last Dinner Party to Olivia RodrigoBy Ed Power
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department track by track review – A manifesto for all the believers who will try at love one more time By Finn McRedmond
Wallis Bird & Spark: Visions of Venus – Bringing 1,000 years of music by women to life with vigour and insight By Tony Clayton-Lea
Bill Frisell: Orchestras – Guitarist, trio and ensembles become one multifaceted whole By Philip Watson
New Jackson: Ooops!… Pop – This swerve towards deft melody suits David Kitt down to the ground By Lauren Murphy
Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder: ‘My obligation is to bring viewers the largest cinematic experience I can muster’Zack Snyder on his move to streaming, the critical panning of the first part of Rebel Moon and why he needs his family on boardBy Tara Brady
Making John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun into a movie: ‘I remember joking that it’s almost unfilmable’Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novelBy Donald Clarke
The Book of Clarence review: A wannabe messiah seeks disciples in an inventive parallel history to the New Testament By Tara Brady
All You Need Is Death review: Singular Irish horror is a symphony of weirdness By Donald Clarke
How poetry is helping us preserve our past - and question our assumptions of history Lucy Collins introduces Grief’s Broken Brow, 10 poems commissioned for the Poetry as Commemoration projectBy Lucy Collins
Choice by Neel Mukherjee: Novel of important themes hampered by didactic toneThree socially conscious and moral storylines are interwoven with mixed results in Choice by Neel MukherjeeBy Mia Levitin
‘The tea was put on, and Dad didn’t come home’: Murder of a GAA ChairmanTelevision: Documentary conveys nightmare left in the wake of the murder of Bellaghy GAA chairman Seán Brown by a loyalist death squad 25 years agoBy Ed Power
Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd on the true story behind the show: ‘People are afraid to admit they made mistakes’The Netflix series tells the story of a man being stalked by an older woman and his life falling into disarrayBy Zoe Williams
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonightApril 21st-26th: From geopolitical thriller Red Eye to Wicker Man-style island mystery The Red KingBy Kevin Courtney
Nicola Coughlan: ‘My family would have been well within their rights to tell me, this isn’t working out, but they didn’t’From Derry Girls to Bridgerton to Barbie, the Galway actor has had a whirlwind few years, but amid the glitz and glamour, she still takes a stand on what she believes inBy Róisín Ingle
L’Olimpiade review: Irish National Opera’s touring coproduction with the Royal Opera House feels surprisingly full-scaleTheatre: Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Gemma Ní Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola and Sarah Richmond star in Daisy Evans’s staging of Vivaldi’s operaBy Michael Dungan
The Hills of California star Laura Donnelly: ‘These days, being Northern Irish is seen for something in and of itself’The Belfast-born actor – half of ‘British theatre’s coolest power couple’ – puts her success down in part to her determination to avoid being typecastBy Shilpa Ganatra
Eilís O’Connell and Mona Hatoum at Visual, Carlow: mysterious yet simultaneously unequivocalAbstract art speaks of refuge and evacuation while recalling the engines of war that underpin such thingsBy Gemma Tipton
Deirdre O’Mahony’s The Quickening: the unlikely star of the show is a dung beetleOne of the most striking artists working in Ireland, O’Mahony has spent her career exploring our relationships with landBy Gemma Tipton