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Jack Reynor attends the Premiere Of A24’s Midsommar at ArcLight Hollywood in June. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Jack Reynor: ‘It’s good to have a break from talking about my penis’
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 20, 2019, 06:00

The actor has made his first film: ‘I got to wear my own clothes, be Jack all day. Amazing’

Time to take Brendan Behan out of theatrical borstal Time to take Brendan Behan out of theatrical borstal
  • Books
  • John McCourt
  • July 20, 2019, 06:00

The enduring myth of the playwright’s troubled and exuberant personality – Behan as borstal boy, boozer and bomb-maker – continues to upstage his great works

Marking the Bauhaus centenary: a major print exhibition in Dublin Marking the Bauhaus centenary: a major print exhibition in Dublin
  • Visual Art
  • Aidan Dunne
  • July 20, 2019, 06:00

National Gallery show features prints from the 20th century’s most innovative art school

Annie Mac: ‘DJing with a pregnant belly felt kind of groundbreaking’ Annie Mac: ‘DJing with a pregnant belly felt kind of groundbreaking’
  • Music
  • Una Mullally
  • July 20, 2019, 05:00

Irish DJ is an architect of popular music, yet she is almost chronically down to earth

Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 19, 2019, 13:20

Tom Cruise was as unblemished as a newly born kitten 34 years ago and not much has changed

Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or not Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or not
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 19, 2019, 15:16

None of the transformations is as profound as what the Fab Five do to the English language

Garbage in Dublin: Manson emerges on stage, an absolute badass Garbage in Dublin: Manson emerges on stage, an absolute badass
  • Music
  • Una Mullally
  • July 18, 2019, 23:12

Review: 24 years after the multi-million-selling albums, Shirley Manson’s voice is note-perfect

Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 19, 2019, 17:43

Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?

Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
  • Film
  • Patrick Freyne
  • July 19, 2019, 14:21

Patrick Freyne: A bunch of cats in an alleyway is not remotely as magical as this film depicts

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – a beautiful way to say goodbye Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – a beautiful way to say goodbye
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • July 19, 2019, 05:00

The young Leonard Cohen met Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra, and they began a doomed affair in paradise. Fledgling film-maker Nick Broomfield was there too

Latest Film

Jack Reynor attends the Premiere Of A24’s Midsommar at ArcLight Hollywood in June. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Jack Reynor: ‘It’s good to have a break from talking about my penis’
That old grim magic: Maxine Peake in Gwen Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director?
  • Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
  • Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same

Film Reviews

Keepers: Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin in Tell It to the Bees Tell It to the Bees

 
Agnès Varda: Her love of people informed her documentary work. Photograph: Cine-Tamaris Varda by Agnès

 
Eleanor Worthington-Cox as Gwen Gwen

 
The Lion King, featuring the voices of James Earl Jones as Mufasa, and JD McCrary as Young Simba The Lion King

 

TV & Radio

On the issue of Trump’s recent racist comments that four US congresswomen of colour should ‘go home’, Varadkar wouldn’t be drawn into calling out the US president. Photograph: Cole Burston/Bloomberg Leo Varadkar: ‘There’s racism and homophobia. But I’m a big boy, I can take it’

Radio review: ‘Do you think I’m aloof?’ the Taoiseach asks a baffled Sean O’Rourke

Queer Eye ... Don’t ever change Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or not
Amy Winehouse in July 2009. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Weekend TV guide: 9 of the best shows to watch
  • GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedy
  • Love Island: Who is the new Irish contestant and will he end up in a love triangle?

Latest Music

Eddie Lee (second from left) with his daughter Mimi and two music legends who taught at the Sligo Jazz Project in 2015, bassist Chuck Rainey (Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan) and saxophonist Ernie Watts (Marvin Gaye, Charlie Haden) with his wife Mimi ‘A silent priest never got a parish’ – how one man brought the jazz world to Sligo

Eddie Lee played bass in 1980s pop hopefuls Those Nervous Animals, but jazz was always in his blood. Then a chance email in 2005 led to the birth of the Sligo Jazz Project

Ezra Furman plays Cork, Dublin and Galway The week’s best rock and pop gigs
Vocalist Sue Rynhart tours this week with Welsh pianist Huw Warren The week’s best jazz gigs
  • Event of the Week: Hotter Than July
  • Laurel Canyon: a musical revolution in the magic valley

Album Reviews

Dude York: Falling

 
Tommy Halferty & Norma Winstone: Tommy Halferty invites Norma Winstone

 
Ider: Emotional Education

 
The Flaming Lips: King's Mouth

 
Alarmist: Sequesterer

 
The artwork for Ed Sheeran’s No 6 Collaborations Project. Ed Sheeran: No 6 Collaborations Project

 

Latest Books

Kate Mulgrew: moved to a house on Lough Corrib to write her new memoir, How to Forget. ‘There was just me, a crackling fire and a computer. There was nothing to do but for go for it and go with it’ Kate Mulgrew: ‘I found acceptance in Ireland that I never found in the US’

The star of Orange Is the New Black has a connection to Galway that runs deeper than family

‘It’s the creak of a footstep in the wooden hallway, the sound of a footstep that’s trying not to creak.’ Photograph: Getty Images Night Waking, a new story by Lucy Caldwell
Emily Gravett’s black and white sketches for Matt Haig’s Evie and the Animals are expressive of a wide range of emotions Wobblers and warriors: the latest in children’s books
  • Old Favourites: Woodcutters (1985) by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
  • Time to take Brendan Behan out of theatrical borstal

Book Reviews

Fake Like Me review: Enjoyable art world murder mystery
When the Irish Invaded Canada: Fenian plan was doomed from the start
Three Women: Trio of sexual histories sympathetically laid bare
Fighting the People’s War: Important addition to second World War literature

Stage

These Stupid Things: As the characters’ desire for each other flickers and flares, will their own judgement become clouded by emotion? The week’s best theatre: Two new plays going by their gut

These Stupid Things at Smock Alley Theatre and Cleft at O’Donoghue Theatre are his week’s highlights

None of the eight guests quite know what they’re doing here Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself
Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) runs until Saturday. Photograph: Steve Tanner Dead Dog in a Suitcase review: An abrasive, ragged comic opera
  • Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
  • Dead Dog in a Suitcase: High-octane theatre for turbulent times

Art & Design

Bauhaus beauty: Natalia Goncharova’s Female Half Figure, Paul Klee’s The Saint of Inner Light and Oskar Schlemmer’s Concentric Group. Photographs: courtesy of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Marking the Bauhaus centenary: a major print exhibition in Dublin

National Gallery show features prints from the 20th century’s most innovative art school

Detail from Man is in love and loves what vanishes, by Veronica Bolay Art in Focus – Man is in love and loves what vanishes by Veronica Bolay
Mary Conroy, Metatron’s Cube, Signal Arts Centre Five art shows to see this week
  • Gilbert & George: A strange reunion with their younger selves
  • Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick film

Unthinkable

Modern mindfulness ‘is complicit with a neoliberal ethos of self-responsibility that reinforces systems of oppression and injustice’. Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism?

Unthinkable: Ronald E Purser warns against the rise of ethically neutral and self-absorbed spiritual practises

‘If you go from the Skelligs to the Giant’s Causeway, everything about the land has a mythological surface to it.’ Photograph: David Sleator Ireland can manage without the church but can it do without myths?
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines. ‘The prospect of being at the mercy of a future super-intelligence seems entirely realistic,’ says Malcolm Bull. Photograph: Reuters/Warner Bros Why humans need mercy more than justice to survive
  • Should children be taught to be patriotic?
  • The greatest Irish thinker you’ve never read? It could be this man

Michael Viney's Another Life

Illustration: Michael Viney Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Restoring the golden eagle to the west has found the limits to bringing back a carnivore

“Like our neighbours, we once depended wholly on the stream, piped to the house by gravity from one of its higher pools.” Nature takes refuge as drought dries the landscape
“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
  • For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches

Heritage

Moore Street market in Dublin. The report says the 200-year-old market is in a “vicious circle of decline”. Photograph: Getty Images Advisory group says Moore Street market is facing ‘existential crisis’

Report to be submitted to the Minister says urgent action is needed on street market and 1916 buildings

Commemorative plaque at former home of Countess Markievicz in Rathmines. L-R, Lord Mayor Paul McAuliffe, Charles and Olivia Crichton-Stuart, great grandniece of Markievicz, and their children Angus (9) and Amelia (7). Photograph: Tom Honan Commemorative plaque unveiled on 1916 home of Constance Markievicz
Gate lodge to the Jewish cemetery on Fairview Strand: Founded in 1718, it is one of the earliest surviving Jewish burial grounds in Ireland or Britain. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd Ireland’s oldest Jewish cemetery to reopen after 40 years
  • The Gaelic footballers and fans who refused to fight in the Great War
  • The difference between the average unionist and average nationalist? Not much

Tuarascáil

Mick Jagger agus na Rolling Stones i bPáirc an Chrócaigh anuraidh. Chasadar i mBaile Átha Cliath i 1965. Grianghraf: Nick Bradshaw Málaí

Ba mhór idir na haimsirí, is mór idir na faisin, agus is é an faisean a rialaíonn an saol

Tá Berlin ‘faoi choimirce Aingeal na Síochána arís’. Grianghraif: Getty Berlin: Cathair nua-aimseartha atá báite sa stair
Óglaigh na hÉireann. Grianghraf: Aidan Crawley Cén fáth a bhfuilimid in Mali?
  • Comhairliúchán ar Earnáil na Meán
  • Cleachtadh a dhéanann máistreacht

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Globalisation was always about much more than increased trade. Its origins lie in the liberalisation of finance and the weakening of nation states. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty The Levelling: A banker’s prescient warning of the growing debt crisis
Tim MacGabhann: from Kilkenny to Mexico Call Him Mine: Dial M for murderous prose
David Nicholls: His latest novel, Sweet Sorrow, is more indie-movie than Hollywood blockbuster. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first love
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 
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1 Jack Reynor attends the Premiere Of A24’s Midsommar at ArcLight Hollywood in June. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Jack Reynor: ‘It’s good to have a break from talking about my penis’
2 Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen, from the film Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love. Photograph courtesy of Roadside Attractions Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – a beautiful way to say goodbye
3 Judi Dench in Cats Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
4 Tom Cruise speaks at the Top Gun: Maverick panel during 2019 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on Thursday. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same
5 Maria Bailey appeared on Sean O’Rourke’s show on Monday to discuss the withdrawn ‘swing’ case. Sean O’Rourke gave Maria Bailey a generous length of rope, then yanked it sharply
6 Kate Mulgrew: moved to a house on Lough Corrib to write her new memoir, How to Forget. ‘There was just me, a crackling fire and a computer. There was nothing to do but for go for it and go with it’ Kate Mulgrew: ‘I found acceptance in Ireland that I never found in the US’
7 Brendan Behan at his typewriter, circa 1955. Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images Time to take Brendan Behan out of theatrical borstal
8 The 1st Canadian Reconnaissance Squadron, armed with motorcycle-mounted Bren and Lewis machine guns, having tea in an English wood during the Second World War. Photograph: PA Images via Getty Images Fighting the People’s War: Important addition to second World War literature
9 The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director?
10 Eddie Lee (second from left) with his daughter Mimi and two music legends who taught at the Sligo Jazz Project in 2015, bassist Chuck Rainey (Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan) and saxophonist Ernie Watts (Marvin Gaye, Charlie Haden) with his wife Mimi ‘A silent priest never got a parish’ – how one man brought the jazz world to Sligo
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