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Matthew McConaughey: ‘Could this actually be a banner year, where things got started? A little evolution would be nice.’ Photograph: Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times) Matthew McConaughey: ‘Everyone’s in a bit of a pickle, and it’s not a little gherkin’
  • Film
  • Dave Itzkoff
  • October 26, 2020, 06:00

The actor on his life philosophies, securing roles, and his new memoir Greenlights

Bram Stoker Festival: 'People want something that is fun and light-hearted' Bram Stoker Festival: 'People want something that is fun and light-hearted'
  • Culture
  • Amy O'Connor
  • October 26, 2020, 05:00

This years programme features scavenger hints, spooky discos, online workshops, films and podcasts

Don McLean: ‘My ex-wife is the worst person I ever knew’’ Don McLean: ‘My ex-wife is the worst person I ever knew’’
  • Music
  • Rob Walker
  • October 26, 2020, 07:41

The singer talks about the meaning of American Pie, family pain, and being in the 'desert phase' of his life

A Life On Our Planet: David Attenborough’s devastating but essential call to action A Life On Our Planet: David Attenborough’s devastating but essential call to action
  • Books
  • Kerri ní Dochartaigh
  • October 26, 2020, 06:00

Book review: David Attenborough takes a look at how we have reached this moment of climate emergency and urges us to act now

Saving Tim Robinson’s Roundstone home, his last gift to the Irish nation Saving Tim Robinson’s Roundstone home, his last gift to the Irish nation
  • Books
  • Nicholas Allen
  • October 26, 2020, 06:37

The house and its setting and garden are inextricably bound into the writer's work

When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile
  • Books
  • Muiris Houston
  • October 25, 2020, 06:00

Late psychiatrist felt a deep sense of foreboding when interviewing sexual predator

Dermot Bannon: ‘I used to win Lego competitions ... but I lied about my age’ Dermot Bannon: ‘I used to win Lego competitions ... but I lied about my age’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Patrick Freyne
  • October 25, 2020, 05:00

The TV presenter on his first steps in architecture and new series of Incredible Homes

TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • October 25, 2020, 06:00

The Undoing, The Million Pound Cube, Home Rescue, The Mandalorian, Truth Seekers

Inspiring the generation of tomorrow Inspiring the generation of tomorrow
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Champagne Football: bursting John Delaney’s bubble Champagne Football: bursting John Delaney’s bubble
  • Books
  • Gareth Farrelly
  • October 25, 2020, 06:00

Book Review: A damning tale of dysfunctional governance at the FAI

Latest Film

Matthew McConaughey: ‘Could this actually be a banner year, where things got started? A little evolution would be nice.’ Photograph: Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times) Matthew McConaughey: ‘Everyone’s in a bit of a pickle, and it’s not a little gherkin’
Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’
Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
  • Four new films to stream this weekend
  • The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?

TV & Radio

Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey in Holidate, streaming on Netflix from Wednesay TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week

The Undoing, The Million Pound Cube, Home Rescue, The Mandalorian, Truth Seekers

Dermot Bannon at home in Drumcondra with his cast-iron outdoor bath. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell Dermot Bannon: ‘I used to win Lego competitions ... but I lied about my age’
Tony Holohan: his relationship with Varadkar is ‘very good’ Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce Springsteen
  • ‘In 2018 I wrote publicly about my heritage. Soon after, the anti-Semitic messages began’
  • Level 5 lockdown TV: From The Crown to Dead Still, the ultimate guide to what to watch

Latest Books

Tim Robinson in his home in Roundstone on the sea shore Co Galway. Photograph: David Sleator Saving Tim Robinson’s Roundstone home, his last gift to the Irish nation

The house and its setting and garden are inextricably bound into the writer's work

The Books Quiz: Who imagined the UK going broke after leaving Europe?
Portrait of psychiatrist and television personality Anthony Clare, July 1989. Photograph: Richard Farley/Radio Times/Getty When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile
  • Barry Geraghty: What the queen taught me about horse racing
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann

Film Reviews

Dixie Egerickx in the Secret Garden The Secret Garden

 
Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin are stars in the making Summer of '85

 
Personal attorney to Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani (right) appears in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film. Photograph: AP Photo Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

 
On the Rocks On the Rocks

 

Latest Music

Don McLean: “All my stuff is about loss. I’ve never really been happy.” Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times Don McLean: ‘My ex-wife is the worst person I ever knew’’

The singer talks about the meaning of American Pie, family pain, and being in the 'desert phase' of his life

Paul McCartney’s new album will be released on December 11th. File photograph: Sophia Juliane Lydolph/EPA Paul McCartney to release new album recorded alone in lockdown
Nobody writes songs about the poor ignored white bloke, do they? All right, Bruce Springsteen did write one or two . . . Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Bruce Springsteen quiz: How well do you know The Boss?
  • Nealo: ‘I’m not important... but I’m important to my son’
  • David Byrne’s lockdown despair: ‘I see new chicanery every day’

Book Reviews

A Life On Our Planet: David Attenborough’s devastating but essential call to action
Love, Money & Parenting: How social class influences child-rearing
Champagne Football: bursting John Delaney’s bubble
Tom Stoppard: A Life – A great biography of a great playwright

Stage

A new play seeks to challenge Samuel Beckett’s instructions that only men may appear in Waiting for Godot. Photograph: Ali Wright Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged

Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play

Callan Cummins Matthew Malone and Mary Murray in Fishamble: The New Play Company’s Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan. Photograph: Anthony Woods Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanistic
Niall Henry, artistic director of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in Sligo. Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge
  • The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packages
  • Looking for América review: Memory tells a different kind of truth

Art & Design

Irishness has always been to some extent a performance, whether of piety or of revelry, of sophistication or of simplicity. Photograph: Martin Parr From the past to modernity: images of Ireland transforming

Martin Parr’s work portrays socio-cultural shift from conformism

Technicians handle Banksy’s Show me the Monet, a reimagining of Claude Monet’s water lilies, at Sotheby’s in central London. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Show me the Monet: Banksy comment on consumerism fetches £7.5m
The Potter’s Shop, Clonakilty, 1980s. Photograph: Jane Forrester Bohemian blow-ins: Crafting an arts movement in west Cork
  • Why I made a new Irish Tree Alphabet
  • Rankin: U2’s second-favourite photographer on his brushes with fame

Unthinkable

James Suzman: ‘My solution is to say, look, recognise we are incredibly adaptable species... We have got to experiment.’ Why work more than 15 hours a week?

Unthinkable: It was good enough for your ancestors, says anthropologist James Suzman

The US president may have lots followers but ‘you get diminishing returns’ on his tweets, philosopher and author Ian Olasov remarks. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Ask yourself before reading: Is this newsworthy?
Zena Hitz has particular concerns about the quality of teaching, an issue that goes beyond the coronavirus crisis. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Researched to death? How universities have sidelined teaching
  • Has Christianity been good for us? It depends on your history book
  • Cancel culture: can you defend people who say unpopular things?

Heritage

The Cork funeral for the city’s mayor Terence MacSwiney in 1920. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images The three funerals of Terence MacSwiney

The events, each with thousands of mourners, were key moments in the battle for independence

Hilary Mantel calls for skeleton of Irish ‘giant’ to be repatriated
Sean Treacy’s body is moved, as caught by a Pathe film crew in Dublin Shot dead in Dublin 100 years ago: the man who started the War of Independence
  • Co-living development ‘will destroy’ North Great George’s Street
  • Approval for redevelopment and restoration of Old Library in Trinity College

Michael Viney's Another Life

Gannet with fish: Anyone who has watched the birds plunging vertically from the sky to seize mackerel deep beneath the surface must marvel at their anatomy. Illustration: Michael Viney Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbers

Michael Viney: Irish numbers have more than doubled since the counts of Operation Seafarer in 1970

Fox with prey: The urban adult is “thin and exhausted” from finding and ferrying food to its cubs. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: The fox as he dwells among us
Choughs. Illustration: Michael Viney The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
  • Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows
  • Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffin

Tuarascáil

’Bhí blianta ann nuair a bhí na crainn Nollag bréige á réiteach i mí Lúnasa’ Gianghraf: Nick Bradshaw/Irish Times Rud maith amháin

De dheasca - nó de bharr- na dianghlasála eile seo déanfar cúpla seachtain, seachas cúpla mí den Nollaig arís

Is ar éigean a chuimhnítear anois ar an bPúca ach i logainmneacha - Poll a Phúca, Cloch a’Phúca agus a leithéidí. Pictiúr: Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You le Holly Black agus Tony DiTerlizzi. Púcaí, piseoga, cleasaíocht agus diabhlaíocht
Is leagan coimrithe é Concise English-Irish Dictionary den Fhoclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge atá le fáil ar focloir.ie. Grianghraf: Foras na Gaeilge Mórfhoclóir úr in aimsir na Paindéime
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David Attenborough: “We must not give up hope. We have all the tools we need.” A Life On Our Planet: David Attenborough’s devastating but essential call to action
A level of forensic detail make the damning conclusions on John Delaney’s FAI regime all the more impactful. Champagne Football: bursting John Delaney’s bubble
Poet Rita Ann Higgins Poetry round-up: True, funny poems in response to Covid-19

Most Read in Culture

1 Portrait of psychiatrist and television personality Anthony Clare, July 1989. Photograph: Richard Farley/Radio Times/Getty When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile
2 Don McLean: “All my stuff is about loss. I’ve never really been happy.” Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times Don McLean: ‘My ex-wife is the worst person I ever knew’’
3 Matthew McConaughey: ‘Could this actually be a banner year, where things got started? A little evolution would be nice.’ Photograph: Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times) Matthew McConaughey: ‘Everyone’s in a bit of a pickle, and it’s not a little gherkin’
4 Tim Robinson in his home in Roundstone on the sea shore Co Galway. Photograph: David Sleator Saving Tim Robinson’s Roundstone home, his last gift to the Irish nation
5 Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
6 Personal attorney to Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani (right) appears in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film. Photograph: AP Photo Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani’s trouser-reaching scene is the work of a daring young woman
7 A level of forensic detail make the damning conclusions on John Delaney’s FAI regime all the more impactful. Champagne Football: bursting John Delaney’s bubble
8 David Attenborough: “We must not give up hope. We have all the tools we need.” A Life On Our Planet: David Attenborough’s devastating but essential call to action
9 Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’
10 I am NOT legend by artist and filmmaker Andrea Mastrovito. Bram Stoker Festival: 'People want something that is fun and light-hearted'
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The Music Quiz: Who said losing their virginity was a career move? The Music Quiz: Who said losing their virginity was a career move?

Plus: The Beatles meet Timothy Leary and a sampling of 21-century King Crimson

Macnas, whose parades are a core part of their work, receive this year’s special tribute award. Photograph: Brian Arthur
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

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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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