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Abbey criticisms: the theatre’s directors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Abbey accused of reneging on promise of more Irish plays
  • Stage
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • December 10, 2019, 17:15

Theatre professionals say Abbey had not delivered on committments, as writers express no confidence in board

Hozier live in Dublin: in pictures Hozier live in Dublin: in pictures
  • Music
  • December 10, 2019, 23:30

Hozier put on a blistering show at Dublin's 3Arena

Charlize Theron: Harvey Weinstein said Renée Zellweger and I slept with him to get jobs Charlize Theron: Harvey Weinstein said Renée Zellweger and I slept with him to get jobs
  • Film
  • Kyle Buchanan
  • December 10, 2019, 08:07

Charlize Theron talks about the challenges of making Bombshell, a movie about sexual harassment at Fox News

Spray it, don’t say it: The story of Irish street art Spray it, don’t say it: The story of Irish street art
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • December 10, 2019, 17:40

TV Review: Ireland’s street artists express their politics better in murals than in words

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61 Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61
  • Music
  • December 10, 2019, 15:05

Singer who had hit with It Must Have Been Love had cancer for 17 years

Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good fun Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good fun
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • December 10, 2019, 15:34

Review: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The Rock

‘It’s above you’: How the Gaiety made Aladdin’s magic carpet fly ‘It’s above you’: How the Gaiety made Aladdin’s magic carpet fly
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • December 10, 2019, 05:00

Meet Daryn Crosbie and the colourful crew behind the Gaiety panto

The End of Love: Disposable partners, ghosting and casual sex The End of Love: Disposable partners, ghosting and casual sex
  • Books
  • Lara Marlowe
  • December 10, 2019, 06:00

Book review: Eva Illouz presents a bleak but fascinating analysis of modern relationships

In League with Gaddafi: This folly wouldn’t make top five of Irish football fiascos In League with Gaddafi: This folly wouldn’t make top five of Irish football fiascos
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • December 9, 2019, 22:35

TV review: Brian Kerr looks back on his match against terrorist-friendly Libya in 1989

Ghostbusters: Afterlife first trailer revealed Ghostbusters: Afterlife first trailer revealed
  • Film
  • December 10, 2019, 08:46

Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver and Paul Rudd all feature in ghost-catching comedy

Latest Film

Ghostbusters: Afterlife – the new film is due out in July 2020 Ghostbusters: Afterlife first trailer revealed
Charlize Theron: “Unless it’s something where I really feel like I’m going to go scare myself, I don’t really want to do it.” Photograph: Amy Harrity/The New York Times Charlize Theron: Harvey Weinstein said Renée Zellweger and I slept with him to get jobs
Marriage Story: Six Golden Globe nominations including best actress for Scarlett Johansson and best actor for Adam Driver. Photograph: Netflix Golden Globes 2020: full list of nominations
  • Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress
  • Wonder Woman 1984 first trailer: Gal Gadot is back – this time with Kristen Wiig

Film Reviews

Nick Jonas, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson Awkwafina and Kevin Hart star in Jumanji: The Next Level Jumanji: The Next Level

 
Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville in Ordinary Love. Photographs: Bleecker Street/Focus Features Ordinary Love

 
Samuel Bottomley and Niamh Algar in The Last Right The Last Right

 
A scene from So Long, My Son So Long, My Son

 

TV & Radio

Trumpstreet art by Subset, shown in Wonder Walls Spray it, don’t say it: The story of Irish street art

TV Review: Ireland’s street artists express their politics better in murals than in words

The Irish teams in Tripoli in 1989 In League with Gaddafi: This folly wouldn’t make top five of Irish football fiascos
Blindboy and Luke Kelly by Subset, part of Wonder Walls: The Story of Irish Street Art, Monday on RTÉ2 TV guide: 18 of the best shows to watch this week
  • I’m A Celebrity: Nadine Coyle earned €275k, and Andrew Maxwell trousered €60k
  • Katie Hannon seems to enjoy her guests’ discomfort

Latest Books

Alice Taylor: We have a lot to learn from children – they are masters of the art of anticipation as they look forward to Santa, their birthdays and holidays. Chronicling a year of big events and quirky little things

With a big birthday looming, author Alice Taylor set out to capture a year in her life

John Dillon: there were certain aspects of life in Addis that one would not want to set in front of one’s granny (unless she was a very dirty-minded, boozy and fun-loving old lady) An Irishman in Addis Ababa
Jorge Luis Borges. Photograph: Eddie Kelly Fictions (1944) by Jorge Luis Borges: Good cerebral fun
  • Children’s books round-up: A picturebook which is the perfect Christmas gift
  • Browser: An unsentimental meditation on loss through geography

Latest Music

Marie Fredriksson performing in Sydney in 2012. Photograph: EPA/Tracey Nearmy Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61

Singer who had hit with It Must Have Been Love had cancer for 17 years

Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten. Photograph: Visionhaus Fontaines D.C. come home: Vicar Street erupts in ecstasy
Hozier: expect some new songs mixed with crowd-plesaers such as Take Me To Church and Nina Cried Power. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times Hozier at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know
  • The best music of 2019: Albums, gigs, bands and songs
  • The best traditional music events this week

Album Reviews

Burial: Tunes 2011-2019

 
The Who: WHO

 
Yann Tiersen: Portrait

 
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Heavy Rain

 
Fidil: Decade

 
The Band: The Band

 

Book Reviews

The End of Love: Disposable partners, ghosting and casual sex
On Swift Horses: Secrets and lies in 1950s California and Mexico
Winter Papers: a potent antidote to the season’s blues
A history of the potato: Digging up its fascinating past

Stage

Abbey criticisms: the theatre’s directors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Abbey accused of reneging on promise of more Irish plays

Theatre professionals say Abbey had not delivered on committments, as writers express no confidence in board

Pauline McCaul, the ‘the miracle maker’, designs and makes the panto costumes, pictured with Joe Conlan as Widow Twankey at the Gaiety Theatre. Photograph: Tom Honan ‘It’s above you’: How the Gaiety made Aladdin’s magic carpet fly
Rex Ryan in The Ridleys, at the Peacock Theatre. Photograph: Ste Murray Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain
  • The week’s best plays: Christmas with Orson Welles and stuck in the pub
  • Jack and the Beanstalk review: It’s all peace, love and mad science

Art & Design

Michael Robinson, Onward Lossless Follows, 2017, HD, 17 min. Image courtesy of the artist and Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago Michael Robinson’s RHA exhibition feels like the future

Aidan Dunne: Artist stitches together pieces of narrative fabric from vast mass of film

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece ‘Comedian’ (a banana duct taped to the wall) is shown during Art Basel in Miami, Florida. Photograph: Rhona Wise/EPA Banana artwork valued at €108,000 is eaten by visitor
House Number 8, mixed media on panel, 36x41cm, 2019, by Hughie O’Donoghue Art in Focus: Hughie O’Donoghue – House Number 8
  • The week’s best art exhibitions: From Suan Mannion to Gabhann Dunne
  • Guggi: ‘I know I’ve allowed opportunities to pass’

Unthinkable

‘On its own, the question of whether or not there is a God is interesting in the abstract, but not very relevant to daily life,’ says historian of religion Alec Ryrie. Photograph: Getty Images Can you be both a Christian and an unbeliever?

Unthinkable: Christianity’s tolerance of unbelief may be new atheism’s Achilles’ heel

TCD professor emeritus David Berman: ‘I was about six or seven when I had what is sometimes described as an “I am me” experience.’ Photograph: Dave Meehan Is your ‘true self’ a kind of ghost?
What’s needed to better equip future citizens is not RE per se but education about religious and philosophical thought. Image: iStock/Getty Can European civilisation survive the death of Christianity?
  • Can women ever get a fair deal under capitalism?
  • The mathematician and the philosopher: A tale of two siblings

Heritage

Archaeological assistants uncover the fosse of the medieval Carrickmines Castle at Carrickmines, Co Dublin, in 2002. Photograph: Joe St Leger Why have thousands of archaeological sites ‘disappeared’?

While the archaeologists have been busy finding new monuments of interest, the State has been busy facilitating their systematic removal

Late night Christmas shopping in Dunnes Stores in 1997. Photograph: Frank Miller December 8th: The day when people ‘from the country’ came to Dublin to shop
A view of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2. Strong women, wealth and a boat disaster: The remarkable history of one Dublin building
  • Recreation of Irish archive lost in 1922 fire to get €2.5m boost
  • Retrieval of Irish archive lost in 1922 fire ‘astounding’, historian says

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

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Is den riachtanas dul isteach leis na buachaillí móra toisc gur gá dúinn sinn féin a chosaint

Príomhfheidhmeannach Fhoras na Gaeilge Seán Ó Coinn. Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times In am treisiú a dhéanamh ar mhór-ráiteas na Gaeilge 2006 - Ó Coinn
Cuireadh fearadh na fáilte roimhe nuair a fógraíodh i 2005 go ndéanfaí teanga oifigiúil agus oibre de chuid an Aontas Eorpaigh den Ghaeilge ó 2007 ar aghaidh. Gaeilge san AE: an cruinneas ‘an cháilíocht is mó atá ann’
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1 Charlize Theron: “Unless it’s something where I really feel like I’m going to go scare myself, I don’t really want to do it.” Photograph: Amy Harrity/The New York Times Charlize Theron: Harvey Weinstein said Renée Zellweger and I slept with him to get jobs
2 Winner Jacqueline Jossa I’m A Celebrity: Nadine Coyle earned €275k, and Andrew Maxwell trousered €60k
3 Abbey criticisms: the theatre’s directors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Abbey accused of reneging on promise of more Irish plays
4 Archaeological assistants uncover the fosse of the medieval Carrickmines Castle at Carrickmines, Co Dublin, in 2002. Photograph: Joe St Leger Why have thousands of archaeological sites ‘disappeared’?
5 Mainstays of modernism: Ezra Pound, the attorney John Quinn, Ford Maddox Ford and James Joyce in Pound’s Paris studio in 1923. Photograph from Joyce Images, by Bob Cato and Greg Vitiello with an introduction by Anthony Burgess (Norton, 1994) Out of the wasteland: the first World War and modernism
6 Marie Fredriksson performing in Sydney in 2012. Photograph: EPA/Tracey Nearmy Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61
7 Two days into the Civil War, an explosion destroyed the Public Records Office attached to the Four Courts in Dublin. Retrieval of Irish archive lost in 1922 fire ‘astounding’, historian says
8 Shaken and stirred: the 007 club James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked
9 Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan’s nomination puts her on track for a fourth Oscar nod in January. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress
10 Pauline McCaul, the ‘the miracle maker’, designs and makes the panto costumes, pictured with Joe Conlan as Widow Twankey at the Gaiety Theatre. Photograph: Tom Honan ‘It’s above you’: How the Gaiety made Aladdin’s magic carpet fly
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