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The Irishman: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Ray Romano Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 18, 2020, 06:10

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Terry Gilliam: ‘Adam Driver is either an idiot or the last pure-hearted person out there’ Terry Gilliam: ‘Adam Driver is either an idiot or the last pure-hearted person out there’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • January 18, 2020, 05:00

Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver, has finally made it to the screen

TV guide: 16 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 16 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • January 19, 2020, 06:00

Dr Eva moves to Portugal, plus party time in Ibiza, Cork’s housing crisis on Tabú, Chris Packham on the population explosion, and impressing the foodie gods on Crazy Delicious

Stockton’s Wing still defying convention 40 years on Stockton’s Wing still defying convention 40 years on
  • Music
  • Siobhan Long
  • January 18, 2020, 05:00

Mike Hanrahan has a renewed taste for the road as the folk rockers return to Tradfest

Caught by the fuzz pedal: Gaz Coombes on his top Supergrass songs Caught by the fuzz pedal: Gaz Coombes on his top Supergrass songs
  • Music
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • January 18, 2020, 05:00

The band that defined Britpop with Alright, Richard III and Strange Ones have reformed

Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansion Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansion
  • Books
  • John Self
  • January 19, 2020, 06:00

Book review: Rob Doyle’s new work is a genre-defying memoir-in-essays about taking hallucinogenic drugs

The new class war and the polarisation of the United States The new class war and the polarisation of the United States
  • Books
  • Stephen Phillips
  • January 18, 2020, 06:00

New books examine the collapse of consensus and why US society is divided on key issues

Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence? Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence?
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • January 18, 2020, 05:00

In the 1990s Druid passed on The Lieutenant of Inishmore – the political temperature is different now

John O’Brien: ‘I’ve always been about making things that move people’ John O’Brien: ‘I’ve always been about making things that move people’
  • Music
  • Mary Leland
  • January 18, 2020, 05:00

The Cork artist and his partner, Éadaoin O’Donoghue, have written a new opera, Deirdre and the Sons of Usna

Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • January 17, 2020, 05:00

The Room to Improve sun god has enlisted them to build his Great Pyramid of Giza

Latest Film

The Irishman: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Ray Romano Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Terry Gilliam with Adam Driver on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Photograph: Diego Lopez Calvin/Screen Media Terry Gilliam: ‘Adam Driver is either an idiot or the last pure-hearted person out there’
The wronged man: Jamie Foxx in Just Mercy Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekend
  • The movie quiz: What film recently took home the most Golden Globes?
  • Next James Bond will not be a woman, Broccoli confirms

Film Reviews

Bad Boys for Life: The performances are mere delivery systems for the violence Bad Boys for Life

 
Just Mercy: commendably restrained in its courtroom scenes Just Mercy

 
Waves: a dramatic diptych from director Trey Edward Shults Waves

 
Valerie Pachner and August Diehl in A Hidden Life. Photograph courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures A Hidden Life

 

TV & Radio

Eva Orsmond contemplates a future dip in the pool, Sunday night on RTÉ One TV guide: 16 of the best shows to watch this week

Dr Eva moves to Portugal, plus party time in Ibiza, Cork’s housing crisis on Tabú, Chris Packham on the population explosion, and impressing the foodie gods on Crazy Delicious

It’s noticeable that Ivan Yates, who can often be heard merrily baiting ‘pinko lefties’ himself, keeps his counsel on this occasion, instead focusing on the victims of the gang feud. Photograph: Newstalk Ivan Yates keeps his counsel as election overshadowed by horrific events
Normal People: Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s coming-of-age novel Normal People: First trailer released for BBC’s Sally Rooney adaptation
  • The Great British Bake Off: Who’ll take over from Sandi Toksvig?
  • Sex Education on Netflix: More antiseptic and untitillating sex scenes. How off-putting

Latest Books

In Unpregnant, a positive pregnancy test in the last weeks of high school is not something Veronica feels she can share with her family. Photograph: iStock Young adult fiction: Delightful distractions for January

Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan’s Unpregnant wrests humour from an unlikely place

Author, Marita Conlon-McKenna, pictured at home in Dublin.Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Marita Conlon-McKenna: ‘I didn’t think I would write another Famine novel’
Protesters staging a die-in outside the courthouse. Members of PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a rally and die-in outside New Yorks Southern District Federal Court in White Plains. Photograph: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty The new class war and the polarisation of the United States
  • Isabel Allende: ‘Where are my roots? They are in my books’
  • Old favourites: Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Latest Music

Pianist Izumi Kimura and violinist Cora Venus Lunny reprise their duo collaboration in the intimate upstairs Vintage Room at the Workman’s Club on Sunday 26th Great sounds coming from all corners: This week’s best jazz gigs

Paul Dunlea’s 4 Corners; Music of Nina Simone; Isumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny

Cherish the Ladies play at the TradFest Gala on Saturday 25th Gig of the Week: TradFest in Temple Bar
Ryan Bingham: expect songs from his most recent album, American Love Song This week’s best pop and rock gigs: From Ryan Bingham to Laurent Garnier
  • John O’Brien: ‘I’ve always been about making things that move people’
  • Stockton’s Wing still defying convention 40 years on

Album Reviews

Kiwi Jr.: Football Money

 
Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi

 
Halsey: Manic

 
Varo: Varo

 
David Keenan: A Beginner’s Guide to Bravery

 
Field Music: Making a New World

 

Book Reviews

Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansion
Pine: Memorable debut with a touch of the supernatural
Ingenious Ireland: A cornucopia of a book that should be savoured slowly
The Clean Body: A Modern History – Dirty secrets from the past

Stage

Blackwater Babble The best plays to go to in Ireland this week

Ronan Fitzgibbon’s Blackwater Babble and Irene Kelleher’s Gone Full Havisham

From right, Alex Murphy, Don Wycherley, Paul Mescal and Aisling Kearns from the cast of the Gaiety’s production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Photograph: Mark Stedman Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence?
Emily Fox, Laurence Falconer, Niall O’Brien and Gemma Kane in 48 Teenage dreams turned to Stardust: This week’s theatre highlight
  • First Fortnight Festival: National programme includes more than 60 events
  • Theatre 2020: The best shows to catch in the coming year

Art & Design

Michael J O’Connor, Faces in the Clouds, Solstice Upcoming exhibit echos the lonely journeys of fathers burying their unbaptised babies

Other upcoming exhibits explore why it’s okay to be lazy and homogenization of rural Ireland

Ack Ro’, neon, Jaki Irvine, Kerlin Gallery Art in Focus: Jaki Irvine – Ack Ro’
Sean Lynch, A Murmur, Repeated, 2018–19. Video still courtesy of Ronchini, London Sean Lynch’s A Murmur, Repeated: Exploring Stonehenge as a cultural phenomenon
  • Imagination, memory and childhood: This week’s visual arts highlights
  • Art in Focus: Jack B Yeats – Two Travellers

Unthinkable

The aftermath of the drone strike ordered by US president Donald Trump which killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani. Photograph: Iraqi Prime Minister’s Press Office via The New York Times Rise of the killer robots: The future of war

Unthinkable: Autonomous weapons allow us to kill without a conscience. Atrocities are inevitable

By reading the news ‘we train our brain to skim, to surf, to digest very quickly and not go deep’, says Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli. Journalism has become ‘ridiculous’: The case for turning off the news
‘It’s very difficult to process all this change all the time without a way of marking it, or taking a moment to reflect on it,’ says Sasha Sagan. Why humans can survive without religion but not rituals
  • There’s no meaning of life. Now, happy Christmas!
  • Why Nietzsche wouldn't go near social media

Heritage

A worker folds linen for tea towels at a Belfast linen factory in 1949. Photograph: George Konig/Keystone Features/Getty Images The long history of linen-making in Ireland

From the archive: In 1917, The Irish Times printed an article about ‘our debt to William III’ for his contribution to the Irish textile industry

Claddagh rings from Garech Browne’s collection feature in the Sotheby’s Royal and Noble sale on January 21st in London. Rings bring Claddagh Records story full circle
Gerry Fitt addressing a party conference in Belfast. Photograph: Tom Lawlor The day the SDLP was formed ‘in the spirit of optimism’
  • Commemoration controversy: Who were the RIC, DMP, Black and Tans, and Auxiliaries?
  • Fake beauty news? ‘Wrinkles completely removed in 20 minutes’

Michael Viney's Another Life

Corncrake: important place in literature has romanticised the bird How do we choose which endangered species to save?

Corncrakes get major EU funding despite being of ‘least concern’ on Red List criteria

The shiny black backs that came curving along the waves behind me were those of bottlenose dolphins, out for their own kind of fun. Picture: Michael Viney On a frosty morning 40 years ago, I saw a group of dolphins playing tag
“Without warmth released from the Gulf Stream in the north Atlantic, our winters could be about 5 degrees C colder and the storms could get even fiercer.” Michael Viney: Climate change an existential threat to civilisation, scientists say
  • Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles
  • Nature takes refuge as drought dries the landscape

Tuarascáil

Fórsaí cúltaca: Póilíní Cúnta i mbun cuardaithe i mBaile Átha Cliath. Grianghraf: Walshe/Getty Images Comóradh conspóideach Chonstáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann

Mhúscail an chonspóid freagairt bhorb ón bpobal

Dúchrónaigh i mbun a gcuid oibre i gCo Tiobraid Árainn i 1921. Grianghraf: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Éagóir Dhomhaite
An tAire Oideachais agus Scileanna, Joe McHugh. Grianghraph: Alan Betson Gá le “samhlaíocht agus solúbthacht” chun polasaí nua oideachais a chur i gcrích
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  • Amhras ar Ó hEochaidh faoi cheapadh cathaoirleach nua ar Údarás

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Rob Doyle: drugs are a symptom in this book rather than a condition: an example of Doyle’s “longing for an encounter with otherness, a seeking out of astonishment for its own sake”. Photograph: Alan Betson Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansion
Protesters staging a die-in outside the courthouse. Members of PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a rally and die-in outside New Yorks Southern District Federal Court in White Plains. Photograph: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty The new class war and the polarisation of the United States
Mary Mulvihill, author of Ingenious Ireland, photographed with Dick Warner, who officially launched the book at a reception in Dublin in 2002. Photograph: Frank Miller Ingenious Ireland: A cornucopia of a book that should be savoured slowly
The Revolution Files Highlights from the Military Archives with reports from every county
 

Most Read in Culture

1 The Irishman: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Ray Romano Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
2 Terry Gilliam with Adam Driver on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Photograph: Diego Lopez Calvin/Screen Media Terry Gilliam: ‘Adam Driver is either an idiot or the last pure-hearted person out there’
3 Architect Dermot Bannon and quantity surveyor Patricia Power, who has to inform him his garden will cost upwards of €100,000 Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives
4 Stranger Things, Murder Mystery, Bird Box and Unbelievable. Photographs: Netflix Netflix has revealed its most-watched content. You might be surprised
5 ‘The problem is, time is limited and energy is so limited ... thankfully, the curiosity doesn’t end.’ Photograph: Philip Montgomery/The New York Times Martin Scorsese: ‘Crime is glamorous at first if you’re young and stupid’
6 So extensive is the impact of a blast that US Homeland Security says you are only safe from a suicide bomber’s vest 110ft away – about twice the length of a bowling lane. The price of paradise: 82 facts you didn’t know about suicide bombers
7 Eva Orsmond contemplates a future dip in the pool, Sunday night on RTÉ One TV guide: 16 of the best shows to watch this week
8 John O’Brien and Éadaoin O’Donoghue: ‘We wanted to go into that Irish mythological provenance and produce something bold and daring, to write an Irish operatic epic,’ says O’Donoghue John O’Brien: ‘I’ve always been about making things that move people’
9 A Netflix hidden gem: Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in the Ridley Scott film Thelma & Louise 50 hidden gems Netflix probably won’t recommend for you
10 Corey Taylor of Slipknot performs at The 3Arena Dublin on Tuesday. Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns Corey Taylor: After 20 years in Slipknot we are all beat up
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Meath-born restauranteur on ditching work to see A Lazarus Soul and the allure of Rotterdam

Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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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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