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From Borat to O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The presidential candidates’ cultural lives
  • Culture
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • October 20, 2018, 06:05

On My Culture Radar: We asked Peter Casey, Gavin Duffy, Joan Freeman, Seán Gallagher, Michael D Higgins and Liadh Ní Riada for their cultural picks

Frank McDonald: ‘It took me years to accept who I am. I’m still working on it’ Frank McDonald: ‘It took me years to accept who I am. I’m still working on it’
  • Books
  • Frank McDonald
  • October 20, 2018, 06:00

The former Irish Times journalist recalls his awakenings as a gay person in 1960s Ireland

Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 20, 2018, 06:15

The film-maker on Trump’s charm, new film Fahrenheit 11/9, and getting the vote out

The Haunting of Hill House proving to be a real horror show for Netflix The Haunting of Hill House proving to be a real horror show for Netflix
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Seamas O'Reilly
  • October 20, 2018, 05:00

Memeing of Life: It seems like a creaky premise but it’s the haunting hidden extra that provide real chills

Why I’m a big fan of mini royals and aristobrats Why I’m a big fan of mini royals and aristobrats
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • October 20, 2018, 08:39

A royal sprogling would do a better job here than any of our presidential candidates

Motherfoclóir, Brexit and the birth of my daughter Motherfoclóir, Brexit and the birth of my daughter
  • Books
  • Darach Ó Séaghdha
  • October 20, 2018, 06:15

Championing minority languages and protecting people with disabilities means resisting careless concepts of normality

Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline panto Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline panto
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • October 20, 2018, 05:00

Review: Duffy is getting his practice in for his role in the upcoming Snow White panto

Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism? Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?
  • Art & Design
  • Gemma Tipton
  • October 20, 2018, 05:00

St Brendan’s school in Birr has won a Getty Foundation preservation-study grant

The woman bringing the Gate Theatre into the 21st century The woman bringing the Gate Theatre into the 21st century
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Something in the water: what makes Icelandic music so creative? Something in the water: what makes Icelandic music so creative?
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • October 20, 2018, 05:00

In the run-up to Iceland Airwaves festival, musicians talk about their artistic process

Latest Film

Resistance is not futile: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump in Fahrenheit 11/9. Montage: The Irish Times Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump
Touch Me Not ‘Touch Me Not’: ‘We want you to question preconceived ideas about intimacy, sexuality, body’
Javier Bardem during a masterclass at the Lumiere 2018 cinema festival in Lyon. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images Javier Bardem condemns ‘public lynching’ of Woody Allen
  • ‘I love to work with dogs. A clever actor can follow their lead’
  • Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Film Reviews

Dogman Dogman

 
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

 
Jamie Lee Curtis: holds the line in David Gordon Green’s Halloween Halloween

 
Touch Me Not Touch me Not

 

Latest Music

Sanae Yamada: “Listening to Journey In Satchidananda gives me a sensation that is closest in texture to that of looking at the ocean or staring into the structure of a leaf.” This Album Changed My Life: Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda (1971)

Sanae Yamada, of Vive la Void and Moon Duo, on the album that opened doors for her

Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers New artist of the week: Hobo Johnson & the Lovemakers
Iceland Airwaves: Georg Holm of Sigur Ros at the festival in 2012. Photograph: Matthew Eisman/WireImage/Getty Something in the water: what makes Icelandic music so creative?
  • ‘I remember Gay Byrne one night referring to me simply as ‘bass’ ’
  • Michael Bublé ‘to retire’ from music after son’s battle with cancer

Album Reviews

The Cranberries: Everyone Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - 25th Anniversary Edition

 
Richard Ashcroft: Natural Rebel

 
Aaron Parks: Little Big

 
Karan Casey: Hieroglyphs That Tell The Tale

 
Lisa O’Neill: Heard a Long Gone Song

 
John Grant: Love Is Magic

 

Latest Books

The view from the Royal Hotel: Galway’s Eyre Square in 1900. ‘A broken engagement and murderous revenge on Eyre Square’

Thomas Parry had one thing on his mind when he visited Galway on July 29th, 1884

Darach Ó Séaghdha with his wife, Erin, and daughter Lasairíona Motherfoclóir, Brexit and the birth of my daughter
The cover art for The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street by Eimar O’Duffy Eimar O’Duffy: the forgotten Irish author with a phantasmagorical vision
  • In praise of older books: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980)
  • Poetry round-up: Kate Tempest, the phenomenon, is back

Book Reviews

Ambition and Achievement by Fergal MacCabe: Rescuing architect Frank Gibney
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed review
The Guilty Feminist: Fifth-wave feminism from an unlikely torchbearer
Unsheltered: Intertwined narratives connect the 1870s to Trump era

TV & Radio

Celebs go Dating: It’s not exactly true love they are seeking but someone to bolster and enhance their brand Celebs go Dating: Shallow, fickle, anxiety-ridden narcissists – they’re just like us really

Reality TV: Like all forms of modern dating, the show remains a compelling mix of humiliation and blind egotism

Podge & Rodge wtih Doireann Garrihy 13 of the best TV shows to watch this week
A sketch of a grey phalarope by Killian Mullarney The bird man of Tacumshin
  • Podcast of the Week: Wild Thing
  • Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline panto

Stage

Dear Arabella: Katy Tumelty as Jean, who has an engagingly authentic voice and a sardonic sense of humour. Photograph: Steffan Hill Dear Arabella: Softer, subtler, but Marie Jones sharp-eyed as ever

Belfast International Arts Festival review: Three lonely women gain a new sense of purpose

My Name Is Language review: A nicely shameless exercise in name-dropping
St Nicholas: Brendan Coyle in Conor McPherson’s play. Photograph: Helen Maybanks St Nicholas review: What does a theatre critic know anyway?
  • Rathmines Road review: A compassionate imagining of one woman’s private torment
  • Home Theatre (Ireland) review: An innovation with life-changing potential

Art & Design

The Village Funeral: An Irish Family by a Graveside during the Great Famine by Daniel MacDonald Art in Focus: The Village Funeral by Daniel MacDonald

A short-lived 19th-century Cork artist shines a light on the reality of the Famine

St Brendan’s Community School: from an era when Modernist structures popped up unexpectedly Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?
Staff from Sotheby’s auctioneers reposition Banksy’s Love is in the Bin, which is now half-shredded, in London. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters Banksy reveals that artwork shredding stunt did not go to plan
  • You really have to see Trump’s bizarre new painting
  • Jacqueline Stanley: Attuned to the rhythms of the land

Unthinkable

Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?

Unthinkable: An ‘arms race’ of critique is hindering social progress, argues sociologist Tom Boland

America’s failure to repent the use of the atomic bomb contributed to “the ending of the western Christian civilisation”, says Desmond Fennell. Photograph: US Defense Department/Reuters What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
Pilgrims waiting in Phoenix Park, Dublin for the visit of Pope Francis. Photograph: Cyril Byrne A ‘third way’ of looking at religion
  • Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year
  • Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare

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

Minister for Defence Oscar Traynor, chief of staff Maj Gen Liam Egan (far left), inspecting recruits at Portobello Barracks, Dublin. Cpl Patrick Kavanagh instructs Pvt John Belmont in sighting a rifle. On the far right is Lt Col P Kierse. Photograph: Dermot Barry The Times We Lived In: They’re in the Army now

Published: February 19th, 1952. Photograph: Dermot Barry

Chester Beatty Library: Simurgh rescues Zal in an ink-and-gold illustration from the Iranian epic The Book of Kings. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The women keeping Chester Beatty’s bequest to Ireland
Erica Calder with her sons Cian (4) and Tom (13 months) with their new computer at home in Ballinteer, Dublin in 2002. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times The Times We Lived In: The excitement of a new PC in 2002
  • Budget ‘fails’ Gaeltacht communities – Conradh na Gaeilge
  • The torpedoes and the ‘Leinster’: Ireland’s worst maritime disaster

Treibh

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Cad chuige a gcaitheann ár gcuid polaiteoirí cultachta den dath céanna?

Agallamh Shócraitéas agus Meat Loaf
Micheál Ó Ruairc – scríbhneoir Ag obair as leabhar a chéile
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Most Read in Culture

1 Frank McDonald and his husband, Eamon Slater, at the National Botanic Gardens on their wedding day, in 2016 Frank McDonald: ‘It took me years to accept who I am. I’m still working on it’
2 From Borat to O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The presidential candidates’ cultural lives
3 Prince Harry with Meghan Markle: crack cocaine for Britons who have given up hope of bettering their lot and see sitcom repeats on UK Gold as “rolling news”. Photograph. Ian Vogler/Reuters Why I’m a big fan of mini royals and aristobrats
4 St Brendan’s Community School: from an era when Modernist structures popped up unexpectedly Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?
5 Podge & Rodge wtih Doireann Garrihy 13 of the best TV shows to watch this week
6 Joe Duffy: Holding a mirror to Irish life Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline panto
7 Darach Ó Séaghdha with his wife, Erin, and daughter Lasairíona Motherfoclóir, Brexit and the birth of my daughter
8 Resistance is not futile: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump in Fahrenheit 11/9. Montage: The Irish Times Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump
9 U2 on tour: the band end their European Experience + Innocence shows playing in front of an EU flag. Photograph: Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty How will U2’s pro-EU message go down in the UK? ‘It will be interesting’
10 The Haunting of Hill House: Really, properly, legitimately scary The Haunting of Hill House proving to be a real horror show for Netflix
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Leo Varadkar is hoisted on shoulders after being elected as leader of Fine Gael at the Mansion House, Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times ‘Leo Varadkar: A Very Modern Taoiseach’ is shallow, flimsy and exaggerated
Spike Lee at the premiere of his new film ‘BlacKkKlansman’ in California. “I hope that this film can give some little extra push or touch or anything to get people to register to vote.” Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’
The cast during rehearsals of Paul Howard’s ‘Copper Face Jacks’ in the Olympia Treatre, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Copper Face Jacks: The Musical: Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’

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Helen Cullen, author of The Lost Letters of William Woolf
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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture
 

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Galleries

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, his mother, Wendy O'Connor and sister Kim Cobain pictured this morning with Kurt's Dodge Dart car at the Newbridge Museum of Style Icons where the Cobain family opened an exhibition 'Growing Up Kurt Cobain'. The exhibition runs until 30th September 2018. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Gallery: Kurt Cobain exhibition in Newbridge
HETTY LAWLOR: Overall winner, Young Mayo artist Hetty Lawlor - a 17-year old student from Kilmeena, near Westport and a pupil at the local Sacred Heart School - with her picture entitled 'Grainne', winner of the 64th Texaco Children's Art competition held at the RHA Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Texaco Children's Art Competition
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