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Avengers: Endgame: ‘You’d think they would, by now, have learnt the message and left behind the useless Hawkeye’ Avengers: Endgame spends too long wallowing in its own pomposity
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 23, 2019, 22:00

Review: The best superhero films nod at their silliness. This one’s short on fun

Bonding: A wrenching drama with erectile dysfunction gags Bonding: A wrenching drama with erectile dysfunction gags
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • April 24, 2019, 11:30

Review: Netflix’s new micro-dose series sees a dominatrix and a comedian grapple with the wounds of adolescence

Moe Dunford: You look at what’s coming out of Ireland, you realise a bit of anger goes a long way Moe Dunford: You look at what’s coming out of Ireland, you realise a bit of anger goes a long way
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • April 24, 2019, 05:30

Since Vikings wrapped the Waterford actor has been busy making up for lost film time

The Six Billion Dollar Man is the reboot industry’s latest offering The Six Billion Dollar Man is the reboot industry’s latest offering
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 24, 2019, 14:00

When is a reboot not a reboot? When it’s a new version of Frasier starring Kelsey Grammer

Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult
  • Film
  • April 24, 2019, 09:57

Lord of the Rings author’s estate says it does not ‘approve of or authorise’ new biopic

Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from damp hotel basement Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from damp hotel basement
  • Music
  • April 24, 2019, 09:59

Reel-to-reel tapes have been restored and will be auctioned in London this May

What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music
  • Music
  • Michael Dervan
  • April 24, 2019, 05:00

Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes

Game of Thrones season eight, episode two review – Everyone has death in mind Game of Thrones season eight, episode two review – Everyone has death in mind
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • April 22, 2019, 10:30

Review: Forgiving and flirting in Winterfell – and ready to fight to the end, which may be imminent

Pierre Bonnard: The bright palette of a tortured soul Pierre Bonnard: The bright palette of a tortured soul
  • Visual Art
  • Lara Marlowe
  • April 23, 2019, 05:45

Tate Modern’s a dazzling tribute identifies colour and memory as the two most salient features of the great French painter’s art

Beyoncé’s Lemonade finally lands on Spotify and Apple Music Beyoncé’s Lemonade finally lands on Spotify and Apple Music
  • Music
  • April 23, 2019, 13:44

Grammy-winning album appears three years to the day after Tidal-only release

Latest Film

Starring Hoult in the title role and Lily Collins as his wife Edith, Tolkien explores “the formative years of the renowned author’s life” Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult
Moe Dunford: "I’m older now and I’m well aware of how to use this as an opportunity to spread my wings." Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Moe Dunford: You look at what’s coming out of Ireland, you realise a bit of anger goes a long way
Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, Lorcan Finnegan’s science fiction film Vivarium was supported by Screen Ireland. Irish science-fiction thriller gets prestigious screening at Cannes
  • Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
  • Avengers: Endgame – How Marvel conquered Hollywood

Film Reviews

Avengers: Endgame: ‘You’d think they would, by now, have learnt the message and left behind the useless Hawkeye’ Avengers: Endgame

 
Toni Servillo as Silvio Berlusconi in Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, Loro. Photograph: Gianni Fiorito Loro

 
Judi Dench tries her absolute best in ‘Red Joan’ Red Joan

 
Dragged across Concrete: Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson Dragged Across Concrete

 

Latest Music

Bob Marley performs on stage on June 7th, 1980 in London, United Kingdom. Photograph: Peter Still/Redferns Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from damp hotel basement

Reel-to-reel tapes have been restored and will be auctioned in London this May

Lemonade: Beyoncé’s album was said to reveal Jay-Z’s alleged infidelity Beyoncé’s Lemonade finally lands on Spotify and Apple Music
Golden but oldies: Dylan, Bowie, Madonna, Yoko Ono and Laurie Anderson Golden years: 10 pop stars who made great music in their sixties and beyond
  • Compel Irish festivals to be more ecofriendly, says Body & Soul founder
  • The Antlers’ Hospice 10 years on: Tender, timeless concept album about death

Album Reviews

In the End is a smart and stylish farewell for The Cranberries The Cranberries: In the End

 
Flook: Ancora

 
Loyle Carner: Not Waving, but Drowning

 
Lizzo: Cuz I Love You

 
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Mettavolution

 
Glen Hansard: This Wild Willing

 

Latest Books

Dr Lucia Gannon: “I have often thought that I put people off their pints, simply by being in the local pub and asking them how they are” A GP’s work-lifesaving balance: ‘I could not care for others if I was not caring for myself’

All in a Doctor’s Day author on balancing life as a country GP, mother and friend

Prince’s unfinished memoir The Beautiful Ones to be published in October
Mary Raftery in 2010: her work continues to inspire future generations of journalists. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The fearless journalism of Mary Raftery
  • Avant-garde literary festival hits Dublin
  • À rebours (Against Nature) by JK Huysmans, translated by Robert Baldick (1884)

Book Reviews

So Much Longing in So Little Space review: Knausgaard’s Munch analysis is like a secular Bible
Just One More Question: Stories from a Life in Neurology
Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration and Global Capital
The Scar: An intimate insider account of recovery from mental illness

TV & Radio

Zoe Levin in Bonding. Photograph: Netflix Bonding: A wrenching drama with erectile dysfunction gags

Review: Netflix’s new micro-dose series sees a dominatrix and a comedian grapple with the wounds of adolescence

St Patrick’s Purgatory: the basilica in Lough Derg Lough Derg pilgrimage: Like an Alcatraz for the soul
President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina, unveiling artist Vera Klute’s Luke Kelly statue, on Guild Street, Dublin, earlier this year. Photogralph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times The Two Lukes: Never mind the scandal, feel the nostalgia
  • Game of Thrones season eight, episode two review – Everyone has death in mind
  • TV guide: 18 of the best shows to watch this week

Stage

Ulster American: An escalating farce. Filthy minds: The best theatre shows this week

Dublin plays host to Ulster American in the Abbey and Spotless in Smock Alley

A play so dependent on dramatic cliche will be a great success. Photograph: Caleb Purcell Light A Penny Candle review: Binchy deserves better, but it will be a success
That they meet is a matter of convenience, but the two women will soon have something unsettling in common Spotless review: characters in suburban thriller are defined by what divides them
  • In Our Veins review: Story of good people in hard situation is pleasantly sentimental
  • Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlights

Art & Design

Love rivals: Young Women in the Garden by Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard: The bright palette of a tortured soul

Tate Modern’s a dazzling tribute identifies colour and memory as the two most salient features of the great French painter’s art

Sonia Shiel, Never Quieter. Photograph: Gillian Buckely The authentic Sonia Shiel and Martin Mooney, 12 years later
President Michael D Higgins and his wife, Sabina, with Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring and artist Vera Klute, having unveiled the Luke Kelly statue in Dublin 1, on January 30th, 2019. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill How one Luke Kelly statue for Dublin city became two
  • Art in Focus: Andrew Kearney – Mechanism
  • David Fox and Pete Smyth: The best art shows to see the week

Unthinkable

‘There is something new in our day – the way we can express invented identities without the requirement to stand by them.’ Photograph: Photothek/Getty Images Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

Social media ‘invites us to be so many people at once’, says UCC academic Fiachra Long

‘The approach to knowledge in art and science is different but complementary.’ File image: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images Rethinking stereotypes about science and the arts
‘Nearly all of us have some desire to do what’s right but a lot of the time our desire doesn’t really translate into motivation.’ Photograph: Getty images Is morality just a matter of following your deepest desires?
  • ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe
  • Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six

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

The Mountjoy Square Society said, if properly restored, the building would be an ‘outstanding asset to the area’. Plan for partial demolition of Big Tree pub in Dublin criticised

Developer wants to change planning permission on 1830s building on Dorset Street

The Macmorris project sets out to recover the complexity of Ireland’s transformative years between Henry VIII’s assumption of the kingship of Ireland in 1541 to the Flight of the Earls. Courtesy of Trinity College Dublin library Ireland's forgotten Renaissance: An overlooked period in history
The headline on the report by Alison O’Connor about an earthquake in Clonmany, Co Donegal, in 1994. Why does Donegal get a disproportionate number of Irish earthquakes?
  • 10 Good Friday traditions you’ve never heard of
  • What’s the National Museum of Ireland collecting? Repeal posters, bees and a wedding dress

Tuarascáil

Ceann Fine Náisiún na Móhácach, Joseph Tokwiro Norton. Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Tús caoithiúil le chaidreamh nua le Náisiún na Móhácach

Súil ag Ceann Fine Náisiún na Móhácach go gcuirfidh an scéim nua le stór eolais a mhuintire

Grianghraf: iStockphoto ‘Ní raibh ann ach mioncheannairc ar deireadh’
Diarmuid De Faoite ‘Coimhlint ceol na scéalaíochta’
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Immersive technologies: from hype to hyper-performance Immersive technologies: from hype to hyper-performance

International ARVR Innovate Conference and Expo returns to RDS Dublin on Friday, May 10th and will offer delegates the chance to hear from leading international and domestic speakers

Notre Dame's En Plein Air returns to Kylemore Abbey after inaugural success Notre Dame's En Plein Air returns to Kylemore Abbey after inaugural success

The second year of En Plein Air is from May 26th to June 5th, as well as the new Live Drawing Salon from June 6th to 9th

Game of Thrones: The epic series’ final season News, reviews, recaps and interviews as season eight continues
 

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1 Travis Knight’s upcoming take on The Six Million Dollar Man has been inflated to The Six Billion Dollar Man The Six Billion Dollar Man is the reboot industry’s latest offering
2 Daenerys Targaryen in Dublin’s Waxwork Museum. Photograph: Conor Pope Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones arrives in Dublin
3 Kit de Waal: when writers become the other we need always to act with respect and recognise the value of what we discover. Photograph: Justine Stoddart Don’t dip your pen in someone else’s blood: writers and ‘the other’
4 Avengers: Endgame: ‘You’d think they would, by now, have learnt the message and left behind the useless Hawkeye’ Avengers: Endgame spends too long wallowing in its own pomposity
5 Bob Marley performs on stage on June 7th, 1980 in London, United Kingdom. Photograph: Peter Still/Redferns Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from damp hotel basement
6 Zoe Levin in Bonding. Photograph: Netflix Bonding: A wrenching drama with erectile dysfunction gags
7 Moe Dunford: "I’m older now and I’m well aware of how to use this as an opportunity to spread my wings." Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Moe Dunford: You look at what’s coming out of Ireland, you realise a bit of anger goes a long way
8 Game of Thrones: the army of the dead approaching. Photograph: HBO Game of Thrones season eight, episode two review – Everyone has death in mind
9 Starring Hoult in the title role and Lily Collins as his wife Edith, Tolkien explores “the formative years of the renowned author’s life” Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult
10 Game of Thones: Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in the Battle of the Bastards Game of Thrones is an epic for our times. By Fintan O’Toole
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Red electrical tape marks out our playing space on the timber floor. One side of this line denotes the stage; outside of this line is known as the wings. Here, bits of costume and props line up, ready to be brought on stage. Among these props – suitcases, wine bottles, letters – lies a digital camera, very much out of place in this world of 1940s Galway. We’re in the Lab on Foley Street in Dublin. It’s week three of rehearsals for Light a Penny Candle. Maeve Binchy’s heartfelt story, adapted wisely for stage by Shay Linehan, is taking shape. I’ve brought my camera with me this week; I leave it off to the side as we work through the text. Light a Penny Candle: The rehearsal room laid bare
Owen Roe addresses the audience upon accepting his Special Tribute Award at the The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards at the National Concert Hall. Photograph: Aidan Crawley The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
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