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Claire Hennessy: we still believe that it is kinder to force women to continue pregnancies than it is to have a world in which every child is wanted I wrote a novel about abortion – and couldn’t talk about it
  • Books
  • Claire Hennessy
  • May 21, 2018, 17:14

I hope that on May 26th, my novel about a young woman forced to travel for abortion becomes what it should be: historical fiction

The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way
  • Books
  • May 21, 2018, 15:48

A devastating French debut, a controversial Norwegian saga ... the best new euronovels

Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar dominate Billboard awards Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar dominate Billboard awards
  • Music
  • May 21, 2018, 13:52

Kelly Clarkson calls for action on gun control after refusing to lead minute’s silence

Derren Brown Underground: A wizard who will get inside your head Derren Brown Underground: A wizard who will get inside your head
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • May 21, 2018, 12:07

Review: The greatest illusion in this masterful show is the appearance of free will

Four of the best shows to watch on TV this week Four of the best shows to watch on TV this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • May 20, 2018, 06:00

The Manchester Arena bombing revisited one year on, and stressed out Ireland

Angelina Jolie, the Breadwinner and me. By Nora Twomey Angelina Jolie, the Breadwinner and me. By Nora Twomey
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • May 19, 2018, 06:00

The co-founder of Cartoon Saloon on teaming up with the A-list star for their Oscar-nominated animation, and using cartoons to help children make sense of the world

Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’ Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • May 19, 2018, 05:00

‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon

Cannes 2018: our correspondent goes to the dogs Cannes 2018: our correspondent goes to the dogs
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 19, 2018, 15:55

Cannes daily: on the last day of the festival, some inaccurate predictions and Terry Gilliam’s long-cherished project disappoints

Bed and breakfast – and ‘Flashdance’ – with Daniel and Majella: what a feeling Bed and breakfast – and ‘Flashdance’ – with Daniel and Majella: what a feeling
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • May 19, 2018, 05:00

Feast goes on the table and all restraint goes out the window when Ireland’s first couple arrive at the door

Michael Morpurgo: ‘My first impressions of the world were of a bombed place’ Michael Morpurgo: ‘My first impressions of the world were of a bombed place’
  • Music
  • Sara Keating
  • May 19, 2018, 05:00

The storyteller presents war, peace and the human condition through a lens of realism

Latest Film

Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca, Woody Harrelson is Beckett and Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo in ‘Solo: a Star Wars Story’ ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: The making of a weak movie

Things were ‘getting weird’ on the set of the Han Solo film. So they changed director

Asia Argento delivers a speech next to jury member Ava DuVernay at the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters Weinstein sex claims overshadow Cannes as Japanese drama wins
Cannes Cannes 2018: our correspondent goes to the dogs
  • Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated
  • Angelina Jolie, the Breadwinner and me. By Nora Twomey
Allure

 
Citizen Lane

 
Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick in ‘Filmworker’ Filmworker

 
Ryan Reynolds and Brianna Hildebrand in Deadpool 2: piling on the pop-cultural switchbacks Deadpool 2

 

Latest Music

Ed Sheeran performing in the Phoenix Park last week. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar dominate Billboard awards

Kelly Clarkson calls for action on gun control after refusing to lead minute’s silence

Pure, mesmerising storytelling: Shane O’Regan in ‘Private Peaceful’ Michael Morpurgo: ‘My first impressions of the world were of a bombed place’
Cannonball Adderley: Recorded Somethin’ Else in 1958 with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones and Art Blakey This Album Changed My Life: Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else (1958)
  • New artist of the week: Rosie Carney
  • Beck, The xx, Demi Lovato and Game of Thrones: the week’s best rock and pop
MC Paul Barman: (((echo chamber)))

 
James Bay: Electric Light

 
Snow Patrol: Wildness

 
Ash: Islands

 
Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly: Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music

 
Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

 

Latest Books

Claire Hennessy: we still believe that it is kinder to force women to continue pregnancies than it is to have a world in which every child is wanted I wrote a novel about abortion – and couldn’t talk about it

I hope that on May 26th, my novel about a young woman forced to travel for abortion becomes what it should be: historical fiction

People pay their respects in front of dozens of coffins containing remains of more than 600 victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. File photograph: Themistocles Hakizimana/Reuters The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way
RM Clarke: her debut novel, The Glass Door, won the ‘Discovery’ award at the Dalkey Book Festival and The Irish Writers Centre Greenbean Novel Fair 2016 Compost, a short story by RM Clarke
  • A senior banker’s view on how Irish banks went bad
  • Ireland's thriving literary magazine scene: space for tradition and experimentation
A Shout in the Ruins by Kevin Powers: a disappointing second novel
Texas in transition: the myths and politics of America’s largest state
Ireland’s Green Larder by Margaret Hickey: Irish food takes centre stage
The Nine-Chambered Heart: a sublime character study

TV & Radio

Daniel and Majella O'Donnell scale the heights in Kerry 0:15 Daniel and Majella O'Donnell scale the heights in Kerry

Daniel and Majella O'Donnell cross a rope bridge in Kells Bay, Co. Kerry as part of their Daniel & Majella's B&B Roadtrip series. Video: RTÉ

sdfsd Four of the best shows to watch on TV this week
After the GDPR comes in, individuals will be able to seek compensation through the courts for breaches of their data-privacy rights – even if they haven’t suffered material damage or financial loss. Photograph: Getty Images GDPR: Everything you need to know
  • More pranks and drama at Team 10
  • The Habitat: a compelling imitation of life on Mars

Stage

Derren Brown: your mind is not your own Derren Brown Underground: A wizard who will get inside your head

Review: The greatest illusion in this masterful show is the appearance of free will

President Michael D Higgins and his friend Tom Murphy about whom Mr Higgins spoke affectionately. Photograph: The Irish Times President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
“Tom Murphy would have given every one of his great plays for one short hour of that pure, transcendent self-expression.” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Fintan O’Toole on Tom Murphy the Irish Orpheus
  • Tom Murphy: ‘How do you write a play? I don’t know’
  • ‘I loved him’: Tributes to Tom Murphy

Art & Design

Into the Sea by Gerry Blake, at the Mermaid, Bray Co Wicklow The week’s visual arts highlights

Work by Deirdre Burke, Gerry Blake, Hannah Fitz and more

Bacchante with a Panther: a nude woman in the style of Giorgione and Titian dangles a dead bird before a leopard ridden by a naked child. ‘There is only one master, Corot. We are nothing by comparison’
Beginning of Darkness, oil on linen, Martin Gale (Taylor Galleries) Art in Focus: ‘Beginning of Darkness’ (oil on linen) by Martin Gale
  • Visual Art: Bloodlines, Aspect and Hiraeth review
  • John Magnier’s Modigliani fetches $157.2m at Sotheby’s

Unthinkable

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg at a US Senate hearing in April. The distribution of fake news could be combated by sanctioning social media platforms. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?

Unthinkable: Knowledge is an ‘epistemic good’ to which everyone should have access

“Children who commit crimes should be treated more leniently because they are denied the vote.” Photograph: E+/Getty Images Would lowering voting age justify being tougher on under 18s?
A Karl Marx figure with a “zero euro” bank note which has been produced in his home city of Trier, Germany, as part of bicentenary celebrations. Photograph: Harald Tittel/AFP/Getty Images Karl Marx at 200: What did he get right?
  • Is there a right to life? (You mightn’t like the answer)
  • Sex in the digital age: Are consent apps the answer?

Michael Viney's Another Life

For raptors like kestrel (above) and barn owl, the influx of voles and greater white-toothed shrew offers a change of diet. Illustration: Michael Viney New furry prey for the windhover, by any other name

The hovering kestrel has an ability to track voles on the ground through UV reflections from the urine and faeces the rodents use to scent-mark their runways

Pine marten: the distinctive smell of its scat is often described as like that of Parma violets. Illustration: Michael Viney Overcome by the pong of a pine-marten den? Count yourself lucky
The lark ascending: the skylark has hoisted countless poets into verse. Illustration: Michael Viney Skylarks stunned me, just like the poets the bird has hoisted into verse
  • Ireland’s historic hedgerows the essential corridors of nature
  • Getting up close and digital with nature’s miniature life

Heritage

Praying at Lough Derg. Photograph: Maeve Hickey Lough Derg: the Ironman of pilgrimages

As pilgrimage season starts, Manchán Magan recalls his visit to the Co Donegal basilica

The Republican ABC book A Troubles museum: the case for and against
Students from Bolton Street College protest on the Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin. July 7th, 1987. Photograph: Peter Thursfield The Times We Lived In: Students protest about grim state of 1980s Dublin
  • Museums publish two hidden pages from Anne Frank’s diary
  • Frank Carson plays a cracker for charity

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Trailer: The Breadwinner – in cinemas from Friday, May 25th Trailer: The Breadwinner – in cinemas from Friday, May 25th

From the Academy Award-nominated Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, The Breadwinner is a timely and visually stunning animated tale set in Afghanistan

Cannes Film Festival Donald Clarke brings you the best from Promenade de la Croisette
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca, Woody Harrelson is Beckett and Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo in ‘Solo: a Star Wars Story’ ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: The making of a weak movie
2 Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson can do nothing with material that has become worse with each installment. Fifty Shades Freed: About as sexy as a 1990s ice-cream ad
3 Asia Argento delivers a speech next to jury member Ava DuVernay at the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters Weinstein sex claims overshadow Cannes as Japanese drama wins
4 Claire Hennessy: we still believe that it is kinder to force women to continue pregnancies than it is to have a world in which every child is wanted I wrote a novel about abortion – and couldn’t talk about it
5 Faced with the unenviable challenge of echoing the gorgeous, ex-carpenter cool of Harrison Ford in 1977, Alden Ehrenreich falls short ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ slides quickly into incoherence
6 Alfie Byrne on his bicycle – a familiar sight for generations of Dubliners An ‘absolute nobody’ and Dublin’s most popular politician
7 Liam Neeson has a tendency to say things that land him in hot water. Photograph: Laura Hutton/PA Wire Liam Neeson: Unexpectedly beating up people at age 65
8 Elisabeth Moss: ‘Season two is going to be bad too, really dark – it’s going to get worse’ The Handmaid’s Tale, season two: ‘It’s darker, much worse’
9 Min Jin Lee: a writer in complete control of her characters and her story and with an intense awareness of the importance of her heritage. Pachinko review: a masterpiece of empathy, integrity and family loyalty
10 After the GDPR comes in, individuals will be able to seek compensation through the courts for breaches of their data-privacy rights – even if they haven’t suffered material damage or financial loss. Photograph: Getty Images GDPR: Everything you need to know
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London children: we played the same games and watched the same TV programmes and listened to the same pop songs Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal
'Shy but wild': Dolores O’Riordan in 2007. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The young Dolores O’Riordan: ‘Shy and wild, then that voice would explode’
Oprah Winfrey speaks at the Golden Globes. Photograph: Paul Drinkwater/Courtesy of NBC/Handout via Reuters Oprah for president? This is the cult of celebrity gone mad

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The musician and activist on Laurie Anderson, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and how Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry helped her through difficult times

Kit de Waal: will discuss her work with Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, on Saturday, May 26th, at 6pm, in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Photograph: Justine Stoddart.
The Book Club Click to join in the discussion about this month's book, The Trick to Time
 
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
 

Culture Videos

Japanese film 'Shoplifters' claims Palme d’Or at Cannes1:42 Japanese film 'Shoplifters' claims Palme d’Or at Cannes
Daniel and Majella O'Donnell scale the heights in Kerry0:15 Daniel and Majella O'Donnell scale the heights in Kerry
Civil liberties group unveils Repeal mural, calls out censorship1:35 Civil liberties group unveils Repeal mural, calls out censorship
The official trailer for Deadpool 22:14 The official trailer for Deadpool 2

Galleries

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
The renowned uilleann piper Liam Óg O’Flynn has died at the age of 72 - Liam O'Flynn (left) with Shaun Davey (second from left) , Noel Eccles (standing) and Seamus Begley (right) in 2006. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien / The Irish Times Liam O'Flynn, master piper
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