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Television: Brian Dowling Gourounlian chronicles his experiences of social media abuse in moving documentary
Review: Howard Shore’s music for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies is one of the great achievements in film scoring in the 21st century
The Irish band’s new album lacks the poetic intimacy and postpunk punch so long a feature of Fontaines at their best
Those who love what the writer really stood for despair at the misuse and misunderstanding of his works
The tragedy of Alan Turing’s life is at the heart of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s synth-pop rock opera about the gay computer pioneer
Television: Lewis is a beloved but polarising figure, which may explain his exclusion from the pantheon of significant Irish literary figures
Television: The magical realism is unexpected - it’s like turning on Alan Partridge only for someone to ride in on a dragon
Television: Seoige revisits her experience of AI-generated deepfake images while looking at the wider issue of misogyny on the internet
The American singer has become a category of one: a singer with two feet in the past and his head in the present
Filled with regret after the demise of his forerunner band Microdisney, the Cork songwriter brought all his wrath to bear on Blues for Ceaușescu, a prescient warning about western complacency
Television: The chicken fillet roll has gone cold, the immersion has indeed been left on all night and Mammy is reaching for the wooden spoon
This €124 box set is not the best place for the Joy curious to start. But it is a stunning testament to the greatness of the Manchester four-piece
Comedian Joanne McNally - the inevitable Irish contestant - is keeping her head down and could be a potential dark horse as the action picks up
Writer Zoe Kazan has sought to make ghastly Cathy’s character sympathetic, but Pugh has other ideas depicting a ferocious, almost emotionless villain
There are echoes of British television’s historical tendency to portray Irish people as uncouth bruisers always up for a bit of fisticuffs
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