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Kim Deal of The Breeders. Photograph: Erika Goldring/Getty Images A little nostalgia goes a long way

Twenty years ago, The Breeders soundtracked part of a generation with The Last Splash, and live it’s well worth a fresh outing

Bon Jovi on stage at Slane Castle in Co Meath. Photograph: Arthur Carron/Collins Slick Bon Jovi leave Slane living on a prayer

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse pictured performing in The RDS, Dublin on Saturday night. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Promoter defends Neil Young concert

Peter Aiken says Saturday night’s show was never meant to be a greatest hits one

Neil Young and Crazy Horse perform at the RDS in Dublin last night. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Neil Young and Crazy Horse trot off with a whimper

Crowd left disappointed with self-indulgent performance

Film

Lily Collins and Greg Kinnear in Stuck in Love Lily Collins: The genesis of a movie star

She’ll never fully escape the ‘daughter of Phil’ tag, but actor Lily Collins has always been determined to achieve success on her own terms

Michael Shannon’s got the Krypton factor

Michael Shannon is one of the most intense actors of his generation, with eye-popping turns in the likes of Bug, Take Shelter and Man of Steel, but in person, he couldn’t be more nonchalant . . . He even has a nice lie down during the interview

Books

Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien and Myles Na Gcopaleeen Flann shows his staying power in eternal city

Scholars gather in Rome for three-day conference on writings of Brian O’Nolan

Participants in the Bloomsday World Record attempt which took place outside Dunphy’s pub, George’s Street, Dún Laoghaire. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw ‘Ulysses’ brought to life across the globe

Bloomsday marked across world by marathon reading of James Joyce’s masterpiece

Media

Independent Newspapers on Talbot street. The company has proposed that employees, and former employees who have not yet reached retirement age, would have their pension benefits slashed by 46 per cent as part of an effort to rescue the defined benefit pension fund, which has a deficit of €162 million. IN&M pension transfer values at 20%

Company proposal for scheme will see values rise

INM shareholders approve sale of South African assets

Restructuring resolution also passed

ROCK-CHRIS_WEB Stage Struck: Laughing matters
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • June 14, 2013, 00:00

Why does comedy have to be so difficult?

Actor Tom Vaughan Lawlor. Photograph: Eric Luke Tom Vaughan Lawlor: From criminal kingpin to a rookie on his own
  • Theatre
  • Sara Keating
  • June 4, 2013, 01:00

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is going back to his criminal roots for ‘Howie the Rookie’, but this solo show is a world away from Nidge and his crew in ‘Love/Hate’

Daniel Radcliffe: ‘I never want to settle for where I am.’ Photograph: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Post-Potter: Daniel Radcliffe goes from Hogwarts to Inishmaan

Famous since he was 12, Daniel Radcliffe is all too aware that ‘Harry Potter’ might be the biggest part of his career, but he is sure it won’t be the best

HM4CATLAUGHS_WEB Laughing all the way to Kilkenny comedy festival

Revamped Cat Laughs festival includes Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran and David O’Doherty

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry
  • Theatre
  • Peter Crawley
  • May 24, 2013, 01:00

Why is it so hard to get rid of all those lionised critical clichés?

Dubliners Laura Hartin from Rathfarnham and Conrad Oppermann from Malahide, and Gabrielle Leleu from Sallins, Co Kildare, rehearse backstage. 2,000 participants take part in week-long drama festival
  • Stage
  • Judith Crosbie
  • May 20, 2013, 01:00

Skills of young people tested in poetry recital, improvisation, drama, mime and storytelling

ETB-THEFULLIRISH-THE-COMPANY_1_WEB Germans queue up for the Full Irish

In Germany, they love Irish storytelling in song and word. Now, at last, they are paying attention to our plays

A detail of a caricature drawing of the composer Igor Stravinsky playing the music for The Rite of Spring by Jean Cocteau Dublin Dance Festival’s opening night shows the rite way to do it
  • Dance
  • Michael Seaver
  • May 14, 2013, 02:00

Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography became a victim of the success of the music in Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A century later, choreographers are still trying to get to grips with the dance

Fearghus Ó Conchúir performing Cure The naked truth about dance
  • Culture
  • Michael Seaver
  • May 14, 2013, 02:00

In Greek mythology, the gods were depicted nude to show their higher status, but these days little inflames indignation like the sight of the naked human body. For some artists, and dancers in particular, it’s an essential, everyday part of their work

HMBILEOGDEAGLAN_1_WEB Ceisteanna crua faoi ról an tSeanaid
  • Treibh
  • Deaglan De Breadun
  • June 12, 2013, 08:31

Ba chóir go mbeadh rogha faoina bhfuil i ndán don Seanad

Ní binn béal ina thost; b’fhearr i bhfad linn caint gan stad
  • Treibh
  • Brian Maye
  • June 12, 2013, 08:22

Robert Lynd - Preispitéireach ó Bhéal Feirste a scríobh paimfléad smaointeach ag moladh pholasaí neamhfhoréigneach agus easumhlaíocht shíochánta Shinn Féin.

Proinsias Ó Conluain Laoch ciúin na craoltóireachta
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • June 12, 2013, 08:00

D’fhág Proinsias Ó Conluain a rian ar chultúr na hÉireann

HMBILEOGSTOG_WEB Cé a scríobhfaidh na plécháipéisí?
  • Treibh
  • Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí
  • June 5, 2013, 13:07

Ní tearc na seifteanna atá ann sa pholaitíocht dóibh siúd atá ag iarraidh cinneadh a chur ar an méar fhada

‘Enchanté, cén t-ainm atá ort?’
  • Treibh
  • Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí
  • May 29, 2013, 12:47

Cruinniú na gcoimisinéirí le dúshláin teangacha a phlé

Coimisinéir Éireannach san Aontas Eorpach, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. Grianghraph: Alan Betson / THE IRISH TIMES ‘Ceart sibhialta is ea é do dhaoine comhfhreagras a éileamh ina dteanga dhúchais ón státchóras Eorpach’ – Geoghegan-Quinn
  • Treibh
  • Éanna Ó Caollaí
  • May 29, 2013, 11:23

Ábhar mórtais iad Uachtaráin na hÉireann
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • May 22, 2013, 10:35

Cead ag Michael Dána labhairt go dalba ar son na hÉireann

Pat Butler Gradam cumarsáide do Pat Butler
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • May 15, 2013, 10:41

Is ar an iarchraoltóir Pat Butler a bhronnfar Buaic-Ghradam Cumarsáide an Oireachtais 2013

Chris Pine mar Kirk i Star Trek: Into Darkness Solas le fáil sa dorchadas ag Trekkies
  • Treibh
  • Robert McMillen
  • May 15, 2013, 10:21

Ní Cumberbitseach nó Cnó Péine mé ach an tseachtain seo caite, chuaigh mé go muiníneach go háit nach ndeachaigh mé riamh roimhe, go scannán Star Trek.

HM8CORKPHOTOS_WEB Cork photographic exhibition captures portrait of city
  • Visual Art
  • Louise Roseingrave
  • June 19, 2013, 05:00

Exhibition based on 60 portraits by five photographers

Record price of €400,000 paid at auction for Paul Henry painting

Picture bought by Irish family living abroad

From left, Denis Connolly, Pat Shortt and Vincent O’Shea in The Absent Architect Tricks and time travel at the Casino Marino

Connolly Cleary’s latest clever installation takes one of Ireland’s most intricately designed buildings as its source material and setting

1-1_FRANCE_24X40_1990_WEB When life gets in the way yet art continues to be made

’Emerging Artists’ challenges a cultural fixation on youth

Public art: David Mach’s Golgotha, on show at Galway Arts Festival last year With so many festivals, who needs art galleries?

People love the freewheeling experimentation of art festivals. So why don’t our art institutions and galleries learn from them?

Commodified: the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s re-creation of the CBGB toilets for its show Punk: Chaos to Couture. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Punk goes down the pan at the Met

Culture Shock

DANH_VO_WEB Five artists reinvent the Monument at Lismore Castle

Danh Vo’s Statue of Liberty segments top the bill in a monumental setting

Visitors talk near Paul Cezanne’s ‘Les Pommes,’ during a preview of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s in New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters Big numbers for Impressionist art as New York auctions kick off

Sotheby’s sale takes in $230 million, led by a $42 million Cezanne still life

The opening of the Lime Tree Theatre was seen as a positive development, but its sole remit is not to develop or support local artists Limerick: a city in search of its cultural identity

The arts community in Limerick is in crisis, thanks to cuts and closures, so how will the city live up to its city of culture status next year?

SRJFKVISITFURNESS_4_WEB A grand day out in New Ross

Memories of a day with JFK include a dry wit and an invitation to the White House, recalls Statia O’Leary

President Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. An assassination still shrouded in suspicion
  • Heritage
  • Joe Carroll
  • June 19, 2013, 01:00

As he left Ireland, John F Kennedy promised he would return “in the springtime”. Five months later, he was dead. Ever since, conspiracy theories have thrived

John F Kennedy lays a wreath at the statue of Commodore John Barry, with mayor of Wexford Thomas Byrne, minister of external affairs Frank Aiken and US ambassador to Ireland Matthew McCloskey When Ireland woke up
  • Heritage
  • Colm Tobin
  • June 19, 2013, 01:00

Kennedy’s visit lifted us out of our suspicion of those who had been away. He seemed to drive away images of lonely figures leaving with a single suitcase

SRJFKALDOUS_1_WEB A leader of style and substance
  • Heritage
  • Richard Aldous
  • June 19, 2013, 01:00

It was his brother who was groomed for the White House but bravery, composure and an easy charm that captivated audiences made ‘Jack’ the perfect candidate

Dorothy Tubridy and Eunice Shriver All the president’s women
  • Heritage
  • Deirdre McQuillan
  • June 19, 2013, 01:00

The glamour of the four women in JFK’s 1963 entourage captured the imagination of the nation but there was more to them than style

Nora Owen: I was in UCD and it would be many years before I got involved in politics but even then I sensed that President Kennedy's visit would change things in Ireland. A window of opportunity
  • Heritage
  • Nora Owen
  • June 19, 2013, 01:00

The Ireland of 1963 got more than a day out. A generation was introduced to the dynamism of the US

B_F_WEB Limerick’s spirit lifted by leaders

Alan Condell describes the time his mother Frances, then mayor, insisted JFK visit Limerick

New Ross choir members who sang for President Kennedy before they travelled to the US in 1964 to sing on The Ed Sullivan Show. He sang ‘Boys of Wexford’ with us

Victor Furness was one of 600 children chosen to sing for JFK in New Ross – and among 21 selected to sing ‘The Boys of Wexford’ on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ a year after his death

Pat Poland, in the middle of the back row, with fellow AFS members who performed fire protection duties during President Kennedy’s helicopter take-off from Marina Park (now Kennedy Park), Cork, in June 1963. Watching the president’s back

Pat Poland remembers the day he and his comrades in the AFS were tasked with protecting the president

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The craze for premature revamps sets us pondering a Harry Potter remake. It will happen. But when?

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The new new album campaigns

How David Bowie, Daft Punk, Kanye West, The National and Jay-Z are changing the nature of promo campaigns around new album releases

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'Ye's new album is here, and it's MEAN.

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Television culture accepted gay performers by denying the fact that they were gay

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