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Cathedral Leisure Limited wants to construct the 28m hotel in the centre of the old red-brick industrial bakery, built in the mid-1860s Hotel planned for Dublin Victorian bakery and biscuit factory
  • Heritage
  • Olivia Kelly
  • August 17, 2018, 12:16

Eight-storey building in Boland’s site off Dublin’s Capel Street will be tallest on block

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • August 17, 2018, 11:59

New this week: The Heiresses, Equalizer 2, The Guardians, The Eyes of Orson Welles

The movie quiz: What was Disney’s most recent animation? The movie quiz: What was Disney’s most recent animation?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • August 17, 2018, 05:55

What is the new Oscar category? Which real people has Anthony Hopkins played?

Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else mattered Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else mattered
  • Music
  • Mick Heaney
  • August 16, 2018, 15:44

Mick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around her

Madonna at 60: a career of highlights and controversies Madonna at 60: a career of highlights and controversies
  • Music
  • August 16, 2018, 09:06

From her early identification as an LGBT ally to accusations of cultural appropriation

Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’ Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’
  • Stage
  • Emine Saner
  • August 16, 2018, 09:10

The comedian on her reconciliation with her father – and doing jokes about his ex-wives

High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • August 16, 2018, 05:00

US director says his heart lies with action movies like The Equalizer 2

Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • August 15, 2018, 11:15

Review: Sadness pervades this adaptation. What’s going on? Is there honey still for tea?

Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled
  • Books
  • Brian Boyd
  • August 16, 2018, 00:08

A rediscovered dictionary of historical slang highlights some bawdy delights of the past

Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • August 15, 2018, 09:57

After Watergate, podcast turns its attention to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair

Latest Film

Intimate in Asunción: Anna Ivanova and Ana Brun in The Heiress Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

New this week: The Heiresses, Equalizer 2, The Guardians, The Eyes of Orson Welles

The movie quiz: What was Disney’s most recent animation?
New this week: The Eyes of Orson Welles Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated
  • High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded
  • Oh! What a peculiar film! Anti-war classic comes to west Cork
There’s not a single frame of this drama that might not hang in an art gallery The Guardians

 
Once was king: Orson Welles The Eyes of Orson Welles

 
The Heiresses The Heiresses

 
Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) and Winnie the Pooh Christopher Robin

 

Latest Music

Interpol: “We made an album that’s very minimal and raw and honest.” Photograph: Jamie-James Medina Paul Banks of Interpol: ‘I was a mystery to myself for many years’

The frontman on his dark side, new lyrical clarity and rap influences on album No 6

Aretha Franklin on The Andy Williams Show in 1969. Her influence can clearly be heard in successful contemporary acts such as Adele and Beyoncé. Photograph: Getty Images Aretha Franklin bequeaths enduring legacy
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann: Téada, with Séamus Begley, perform in Drogheda on Saturday, August 18th Five must-see events before Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann ends
  • Aretha Franklin: the quintessential playlist
  • Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else mattered
Ariana Grande: Sweetener

 
Blood Orange: Negro Swan

 
Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: Wild! Wild! Wild!

 
Death Cab for Cutie: Thank You for Today

 
Mitski: Be the Cowboy

 
Anna Meredith: Anno

 

Latest Books

– Do you realise – he blew out smoke – that the astronauts on board the International Space Station experience sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day. Photograph: Nasa via Getty Images Day after day, a short story by Ruth McKee

‘It’s a love letter and a dying letter. He has surpassed himself’

Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo in the 1957 film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images From Notre Dame to Haji Ali Dargah Mosque, a parade of holy places in fiction
If you buy The Irish Times on Saturday in Eason’s, you can purchase The Choice by Edith Eger for €4.99, a saving of €6 Edith Eger book offer with The Irish Times this Saturday
  • Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled
  • Marian Keyes to judge prize for comic women writers
Juggling With Turnips review: funny and perfectly constructed stories
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso: life, work and family in splintered detail
How Are You Going to Save Yourself by JM Holmes: sharp, vibrant tales
Children and the Great Hunger: old and new perspectives on the Famine

TV & Radio

Kirstie Alley enters the house during the Celebrity Big Brother Launch Night at Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire. Photograph: Ian West/PA Wire Celebrity Big Brother: Give or take a porn star, it’s the perfect storm

The fame-hungry are desperate enough to take part, and we’re desperate enough watch them

Princess charming? Disenchantment on Netflix Five of the best TV shows to watch this weekend
White House scandal: Monica Lewinsky with President Bill Clinton in the 1990s Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal
  • What Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement means to Miriam O’Callaghan
  • 10 of the best TV shows to watch this week

Stage

Jarlath Tivnan, Maria McDermottroe and Pat Shortt in Martin McDonagh’s “A Skull in Connemara” directed by Andrew Flynn, Decadent Theatre. Photograph: Darragh Kane A Skull in Connemara review: Rich drama of perverse satisfaction

Decadent Theatre’s production draws out darkness of McDonagh’s Gothic work

Camilla Cleese: “I don’t look like my dad,” she says. “Thank f***ing God.” Photograph: Melissa Lyttle/Washington Post Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’
Theatre Lovett’s ‘Frnknstn’ by Michael West, at the Abbey Theatre from August 17th to September 1st. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh So you think you know the story of Frankenstein?
  • ‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxiety

Art & Design

From Lay Her Down Upon Her Back, Róisín White, The Library Project It’s all too much – and too little – in this world of bounty

Diana Copperwhite and Aileen Murphy negotiate excess and absence; Róisín White exposes the Victorian ‘rest cure’

‘Rail’, linen casement weave material, 1958, Anni Albers Art in Focus: ‘Rail’ by Anni Albers
Debra Bowden, The High Road at the Berkeley Gallery in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny Japanese gardens and model villages: the week’s visual arts highlights
  • An Irish sculptor comes to Eileen Gray's classic modernist house
  • Looking at the Irish Border through hard and soft lenses

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

‘There is a paradox in war: Why do individuals sacrifice themselves for their groups?’ Photgraph: Reuters/Joe Raedle Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare
Rhetorical rivals Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. Photographs: Getty Images Was Ireland’s most prominent philosopher ‘too womanly’?
  • How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?
  • Would lowering voting age justify being tougher on under 18s?

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

Cathedral Leisure Limited wants to construct the 28m hotel in the centre of the old red-brick industrial bakery, built in the mid-1860s Hotel planned for Dublin Victorian bakery and biscuit factory

Eight-storey building in Boland’s site off Dublin’s Capel Street will be tallest on block

The rug being moved at the furniture and fine art auction at Powerstown House, Clonee, Co Meath in 1996. Photograph: Paddy Whelan The Times We Lived In: The £700 ‘sleeper’ rug
The Leinster Regiment accommodated in tents at Birr Barracks First World War training trenches at Birr to be excavated this week
  • Heatwave reveals site of Birr Castle’s original ‘Black Castle’
  • The Times We Lived In: Faithful follow the Corpus Christi procession

Treibh

Éamonn Fitzmaurice. grianghraf: inpho/james crombie Gráin agus grá

Is mór an náire an cáineadh nimhneach a dhéantar ar bhainisteoirí sa CLG

Joe Canning de chuid na Gaillimhe. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Cíocras, caithréim, bua agus briseadh
Ag súgradh san uisce. grianghraf: peter andrews/reuters An loch faoin ghréin; an loch faoi shuaimhneas
  • Machnamh agus mótarbhealach; Autobahn agus Imram
  • Tonn teasa

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Camp Freddo: ‘We got to lose ourselves in the simple pleasure of doing stuff together’ Camp Freddo: ‘We got to lose ourselves in the simple pleasure of doing stuff together’

A day of outdoor activity at Wicklow’s Camp Freddo was a fantastic bonding exercise for the McKenna family

Zipping along: “We came out the other side with a great sense of achievement” Zipping along: “We came out the other side with a great sense of achievement”

To celebrate families in the outdoors this summer we sent a family zip-lining in Kilruddery

Most Read in Culture

1 Cathedral Leisure Limited wants to construct the 28m hotel in the centre of the old red-brick industrial bakery, built in the mid-1860s Hotel planned for Dublin Victorian bakery and biscuit factory
2 Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson can do nothing with material that has become worse with each installment. Fifty Shades Freed: About as sexy as a 1990s ice-cream ad
3 Ariana Grande: Sweetener – celebrating the art of being okay
4 Interpol: “We made an album that’s very minimal and raw and honest.” Photograph: Jamie-James Medina Paul Banks of Interpol: ‘I was a mystery to myself for many years’
5 Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) and Winnie the Pooh Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children
6 Madonna: ‘I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around’ Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Madonna at 60: a career of highlights and controversies
7 David Nihill: The most memorable parts of your talk and the safest humour involve personal stories. Photograph: Kehlan Kirwan How to nail public speaking: The Chris Rock approach
8 The 102 best films to watch on Netflix
9 The Heiresses The Heiresses: Stirring study of sexuality, ageing and privilege
10 Ilac Centre Library. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times A day in the library: ‘This is a safe space for people’
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The cast during rehearsals of Paul Howard’s ‘Copper Face Jacks’ in the Olympia Treatre, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Copper Face Jacks: The Musical: Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’
London children: we played the same games and watched the same TV programmes and listened to the same pop songs Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal
'Shy but wild': Dolores O’Riordan in 2007. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The young Dolores O’Riordan: ‘Shy and wild, then that voice would explode’

On My Culture Radar

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The ‘Tank Girl’ and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ star on her adoration of Hannah Gadsby, Jean-Michel Basquiat and John Coltrane, and why ‘Cheers’ still does it for her

Paul Lynch: serious fiction is a form of knowledge. The writer seeks to understand the truths that define the human condition. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/ Getty Images
The Book Club Click to join in the discussion about this month's book, Grace
 
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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Galleries

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, his mother, Wendy O'Connor and sister Kim Cobain pictured this morning with Kurt's Dodge Dart car at the Newbridge Museum of Style Icons where the Cobain family opened an exhibition 'Growing Up Kurt Cobain'. The exhibition runs until 30th September 2018. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Gallery: Kurt Cobain exhibition in Newbridge
HETTY LAWLOR: Overall winner, Young Mayo artist Hetty Lawlor - a 17-year old student from Kilmeena, near Westport and a pupil at the local Sacred Heart School - with her picture entitled 'Grainne', winner of the 64th Texaco Children's Art competition held at the RHA Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Texaco Children's Art Competition
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