TV & RadioThe Big Door Prize review: Chris O’Dowd could do a lot better than this snooze sessionTelevision: Irish actor works hard but this dystopia-lite show, now in its second series, is simply flawedBy Ed Power●Wed Apr 24 2024 - 10:00
Subscriber OnlyHenry Shefflin and Rhys McClenaghan celebrated in sporting Poetry Day Ireland poemsSporting poems by Katie Donovan, Rosemary Jenkinson, Máirtín Coilféir, Patrick Moran and Enda WyleyBy Katie Donovan, Rosemary Jenkinson, Máirtín Coilféir, Patrick Moran and Enda Wyley●Wed Apr 24 2024 - 08:42
FilmThat They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long timeAn Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel
BooksWomen’s Prize for Fiction: Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy shortlistedPrevious winner Kate Grenville and debut writer Aube Rey Lescure also on shortlist
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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
Dave Douglas: ‘I wanted my music to be authentic and never the same twice. So there were a lot of years in the wilderness’Bray Jazz Festival 2024: Like his hero Miles Davis, the trumpeter, composer and bandleader is fascinated by the dynamics of changeBy Philip Watson
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
Take That in Dublin review: ‘Whose idea was it to have stairs?’ puffs Gary Barlow as the band roll back the years with dazzling show Elaborate stage set-ups are par for course with Take That but bells and whistles would mean nothing if songs were not up to scratchBy Lauren Murphy
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
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
Challengers review: Zendaya is at her gimlet-eyed best in this stonking tennis entertainment By Donald Clarke
The Book of Clarence review: A wannabe messiah seeks disciples in an inventive parallel history to the New Testament By Tara Brady
Henry Shefflin and Rhys McClenaghan celebrated in sporting Poetry Day Ireland poemsSporting poems by Katie Donovan, Rosemary Jenkinson, Máirtín Coilféir, Patrick Moran and Enda WyleyBy Katie Donovan, Rosemary Jenkinson, Máirtín Coilféir, Patrick Moran and Enda Wyley
Women’s Prize for Fiction: Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy shortlistedPrevious winner Kate Grenville and debut writer Aube Rey Lescure also on shortlistBy Martin Doyle
The Big Door Prize review: Chris O’Dowd could do a lot better than this snooze sessionTelevision: Irish actor works hard but this dystopia-lite show, now in its second series, is simply flawedBy Ed Power
‘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
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