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Jessica Keenan Wynn, Lily James and Alexa Davies in Mamma Mia! Here We Go again.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun

Film
Donald Clarke
July 17, 2018, 12:32

Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun

‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape’

‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape’

Books
Aiden O'Reilly
July 17, 2018, 06:30

Ashley Stokes, who publishes the Unthology series of short fiction, on the state of the short story in Ireland and the UK

Inside Ireland’s first and only gender balanced festival

Inside Ireland’s first and only gender balanced festival

Music
Patrick Kelleher
July 17, 2018, 08:47

The Folly marks the first Irish festival set up with the specific goal of being gender balanced

Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

Theatre
Peter Crawley
July 17, 2018, 13:45

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

The world’s 100 richest celebrities revealed

The world’s 100 richest celebrities revealed

Music
July 16, 2018, 22:00

U2 ranked 6th top earners, with Conor McGregor coming 12th on Forbes rich list

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Cher to release Abba covers album

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Cher to release Abba covers album

Music
July 17, 2018, 11:59

The singer, who performs ‘Fernando’ for the film sequel, says she took on Abba classics ‘in a different way’

The Whileaways: From What We’re Made – Voices worth hearing

The Whileaways: From What We’re Made – Voices worth hearing

Music
Siobhan Long
July 17, 2018, 05:00

Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen’s new creation has none of the humanity of Ali G

Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen’s new creation has none of the humanity of Ali G

TV, Radio, Web
Ed Power
July 16, 2018, 11:47

Baron Cohen has created four new characters, all extreme parodies and none easy to warm to

Path of Blood: al-Qaeda and the wheelbarrow races amid the bloodied corpses

Path of Blood: al-Qaeda and the wheelbarrow races amid the bloodied corpses

Film
Tara Brady
July 16, 2018, 15:00

Review: The videos shot between 2003 and 2005, depict stacks of bloodied corpses, propaganda, and young men at play

Oliver Goldsmith: Ireland’s great social networker and the London migrant’s friend

Oliver Goldsmith: Ireland’s great social networker and the London migrant’s friend

Books
David O’Shaughnessy
July 16, 2018, 06:00

The man of letters never forgot his hardship in the city and helped other Irish on arrival

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Hugh O’Conor, the admired actor and photographer, made a charming directorial debut with his humane comedy Metal Heart.

The best films from the 30th Galway Film Fleadh

The 2018 Fleadh was defined by some first-class documentaries. Evidence that we can’t escape our violent past came with Keepers of the Flame, Unquiet Graves and I, Dolours

Jessica Keenan Wynn, Lily James and Alexa Davies in Mamma Mia! Here We Go again.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

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Cher on the red carpet for the world premiere of the film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in London on Monday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Cher to release Abba covers album

The singer, who performs ‘Fernando’ for the film sequel, says she took on Abba classics ‘in a different way’

The Whileaways: From What We’re Made

Luluc: As good as they can be, at times, Sculptor treads water rather than sparkles

Luluc: Sculptor

The Internet: Hive Mind

Various Artists: A Litany of Failures: Volume II

Gavin Glass: Opus Pocus

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“In the UK, it’s hard to make a case that there’s a popular love of the short story,” says publisher Ashley Stokes

‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape’

Ashley Stokes, who publishes the Unthology series of short fiction, on the state of the short story in Ireland and the UK

‘The Lost Letters of William Woolf’ by Helen Cullen: A romantic adventure

Testament review: a sad and beautiful novel about Holocaust

Vernon Subutex 2 by Virginie Despentes: more vicious wit and stark insight

Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the environmental wisdom of children’s literature

TV & Radio

Bernie Sanders and Sacha Baron Cohen in Who is America? Photograph: Showtime

Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen’s new creation has none of the humanity of Ali G

Baron Cohen has created four new characters, all extreme parodies and none easy to warm to

Stage

Writer Sonya Kelly: irony and insight. Photograph Nick Bradshaw

Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

Art & Design

Fiona Tan, Vox Populi: London, 2012, 267 individually framed colour photographs, 210cm x 700cm. Collection De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL)

Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spell

Visual Art: An exhibition from the De Pont museum in Amsterdam comes to Dublin

Unthinkable

Irish Yong Philosopher Award winner Luke Rickard (16) with President Michael D. Higgins. Photograph: UCD Colleges of Social Sciences and Law

Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year

Unthinkable: The Irish Young Philosopher Awards hopes to become as big as the Young Scientist exhibition

Michael Viney's Another Life

“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney

Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life

Michael Viney: The cliffs of Ireland are the island’s last wild land, the views enchanting tourists on the Wild Atlantic Way

Heritage

The angled bastion with red and white poles

English fort discovered during Castlecomer hotel development

17th-century fort in Co Kilkenny would have defended settlers from Catholic natives

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Trading up: Make an entrance

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Jessica Keenan Wynn, Lily James and Alexa Davies in Mamma Mia! Here We Go again.

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