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Fontaines DC. Photograph: Visionhaus/Getty Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?
  • Music
  • Kevin Courtney
  • April 25, 2019, 05:00

PlayIrish, a new digital radio station, aims to get small Irish acts the recognition they deserve

James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked
  • Film
  • Peter Bradshaw
  • April 25, 2019, 08:59

With the new film’s title and cast due on Thursday, here’s the good – and bad – of Bond on screen

Do male and female brains differ? A philosophical reply Do male and female brains differ? A philosophical reply
  • Culture
  • Joe Humphreys
  • April 25, 2019, 05:00

There’s nothing in science that disproves the existence of free will, say Helen Beebee and Michael Rush

Eighth Grade: Bo Burnham’s startlingly honest portrayal of growing up Eighth Grade: Bo Burnham’s startlingly honest portrayal of growing up
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 25, 2019, 06:00

Review: The film excels as a character study of singular sensitivity

Ken Kercheval, who played Cliff Barnes in Dallas, dies aged 83 Ken Kercheval, who played Cliff Barnes in Dallas, dies aged 83
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Any O'Connor
  • April 25, 2019, 12:14

Kercheval and Larry Hagman were only actors to appear in all 14 seasons of soap opera

SOAK: Grim Town review – Bold step on an evolving creative odyssey SOAK: Grim Town review – Bold step on an evolving creative odyssey
  • Music
  • Dean Van Nguyen
  • April 25, 2019, 07:00

Derry girl evolves into more pop-leaning sound with swaggering confidence

The Dig: A classic western movie set on an Irish bog The Dig: A classic western movie set on an Irish bog
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 25, 2019, 06:00

Review: An impressive oddity with Moe Dunford and Lorcan Cranitch that deserves renown

‘The ever-present threat of violence contaminated all aspects of life in Belfast’ ‘The ever-present threat of violence contaminated all aspects of life in Belfast’
  • Books
  • Kate Thompson
  • April 25, 2019, 05:13

Last week’s murder of Lyra McKee triggered a spate of terrible memories of the Troubles

Helvetica Now: Why the Marmite of fonts was redesigned Helvetica Now: Why the Marmite of fonts was redesigned
  • Art & Design
  • Lanre Bakare
  • April 25, 2019, 10:10

The love-it-or-hate-it typeface has been updated to help it survive the internet age

James Bond 25: title and cast to be revealed Thursday James Bond 25: title and cast to be revealed Thursday
  • Film
  • April 24, 2019, 19:16

The 25th Bond film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, will be Daniel Craig’s fifth outing as 007

Latest Film

Shaken and stirred: the 007 club James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked
Daniel Craig: Bond 25 is expected to be the last time he play the spy. Photograph: PA James Bond 25: title and cast to be revealed Thursday
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’ve worked my ass off to get work in Ireland
  • Irish science-fiction thriller gets prestigious screening at Cannes

Film Reviews

Eighth Grade excelsas a character study of singular sensitivity. Eighth Grade

 
The Dig: An Ulster western, starring Moe Dunford and a lot of piles of earth, which does less to argue for the joys of the countryside than did Cold Comfort Farm The Dig

 
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

 

Latest Music

Fontaines DC. Photograph: Visionhaus/Getty Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?

PlayIrish, a new digital radio station, aims to get small Irish acts the recognition they deserve

Hozier performs in Dublin. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Hozier nominated for prestigious Ivor Novello award
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
  • Beyoncé’s Lemonade finally lands on Spotify and Apple Music
  • Golden years: 10 pop stars who made great music in their sixties and beyond

Album Reviews

SOAK: Grim Town

 
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

 

Latest Books

“A classically Irish novel in disguise, a dysfunctional family trying to deal with their traumas. It’s almost a John McGahern novel disguised as a near-future science-fiction novel set in Nevada.” Connect by Julian Gough is this week’s Irish Times offer at Eason

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

The series aims to re-invigorate imaginative or utopian social thinking in contemporary Ireland. Photograph: Getty Images Síreacht: little books that tackle big topics
The aftermath of the Abercorn bombing in Belfast in March 1972. Photograph: WATFORD/Mirrorpix/ via Getty Images ‘The ever-present threat of violence contaminated all aspects of life in Belfast’
  • A GP’s work-lifesaving balance: ‘I could not care for others if I was not caring for myself’
  • Prince’s unfinished memoir The Beautiful Ones to be published in October

Book Reviews

So Much Longing in So Little Space review: Knausgaard’s Munch analysis is like a secular Bible
The Old Man and the Sea and the Boy
The Scar: An intimate insider account of recovery from mental illness
Machines Like Me cover Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review: a baggy and jumbled narrative

TV & Radio

Dallas star: Ken Kercheval in 2016. Photograph: Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty Ken Kercheval, who played Cliff Barnes in Dallas, dies aged 83

Kercheval and Larry Hagman were only actors to appear in all 14 seasons of soap opera

Zoe Levin in Bonding. Photograph: Netflix Bonding: Sex and life lesson from a dominatrix
St Patrick’s Purgatory: the basilica in Lough Derg Lough Derg pilgrimage: Like an Alcatraz for the soul
  • The Two Lukes: Never mind the scandal, feel the nostalgia
  • Game of Thrones season eight, episode two review – Everyone has death in mind

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

Helvetica Now: Monotype’s redesigned typeface offers character options such as a straight-legged capital R and a “single-storey” lowercase a, like the handwritten form of the character Helvetica Now: Why the Marmite of fonts was redesigned

The love-it-or-hate-it typeface has been updated to help it survive the internet age

This painting by Atsushi Kaga is among the works to go under the hammer at the Pallas Auction on May 2nd. Upcoming art auctions all in a good cause
Love rivals: Young Women in the Garden by Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard: The bright palette of a tortured soul
  • The authentic Sonia Shiel and Martin Mooney, 12 years later
  • How one Luke Kelly statue for Dublin city became two

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’
  • Ainmneacha agus Neamhainmneacha
  • An bhréag náisiúnta?

Sponsored

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

Tech and data centre industries combine: the Interxion and Welltel connection Tech and data centre industries combine: the Interxion and Welltel connection

Understanding the fabric that supports Ireland’s technology hub

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

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1 Shaken and stirred: the 007 club James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked
2 Fontaines DC. Photograph: Visionhaus/Getty Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?
3 Dallas star: Ken Kercheval in 2016. Photograph: Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty Ken Kercheval, who played Cliff Barnes in Dallas, dies aged 83
4 The aftermath of the Abercorn bombing in Belfast in March 1972. Photograph: WATFORD/Mirrorpix/ via Getty Images ‘The ever-present threat of violence contaminated all aspects of life in Belfast’
5 ‘Whether there is free will is not the sort of thing we can tell by looking,’ says philosopher Michael Rush. Do male and female brains differ? A philosophical reply
6 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’
7 Fifteen facts about the Irish flag, for its 170th birthday
8 The Dig: An Ulster western, starring Moe Dunford and a lot of piles of earth, which does less to argue for the joys of the countryside than did Cold Comfort Farm The Dig: A classic western movie set on an Irish bog
9 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
10 Mary Raftery in 2010: her work continues to inspire future generations of journalists. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The fearless journalism of Mary Raftery
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Galleries

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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