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Jock (Chris Walley) and Conor (Alex Murphy) in The Young Offenders The Young Offenders contains more Cork accents than in past decade on RTÉ
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • November 11, 2019, 22:05

Review: It’s almost as if metropolitan life exists beyond Dublin. What dark alchemy is this?

‘I really want to take the harp off the tax envelope’ ‘I really want to take the harp off the tax envelope’
  • Music
  • Siobhan Long
  • November 12, 2019, 05:00

Winners of this year's TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards on what the award means to them

Playful experiments on the serious business of data Playful experiments on the serious business of data
  • Visual Art
  • Aidan Dunne
  • November 12, 2019, 05:00

Aidan Dunne: Kennedy Browne’s guide to a digital, neoliberal world

Why does The Crown have a problem with Ireland? Why does The Crown have a problem with Ireland?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • November 11, 2019, 07:13

There’s no room for Northern Ireland or the Troubles in The Crown series 3, set in 1964-77

Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • November 11, 2019, 12:34

Anna Burns, Sally Rooney, David Park, Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke vie for €100,000 prize

Cathy Kelly: ‘My inner demons could create their own rugby team’ Cathy Kelly: ‘My inner demons could create their own rugby team’
  • People
  • Una Mullally
  • November 11, 2019, 06:00

Life Lessons: Author on learning to trust herself, meditating and remembering a dear friend

Growing Up With Ireland: Giving voice to the bystanders of history Growing Up With Ireland: Giving voice to the bystanders of history
  • Books
  • Paul Ring
  • November 11, 2019, 06:00

Book review: Valerie Cox documents the stories of 26 citizens born in the 1920s

‘They thought it was judgment day’: The night the stars fell on the US south ‘They thought it was judgment day’: The night the stars fell on the US south
  • Culture
  • Donal O'Keeffe
  • November 11, 2019, 05:00

As thousands of meteors fell one 1833 night, slavers told slaves where their families had been sold

Cinderella/La Cenerentola review: Well deserving of its standing ovation Cinderella/La Cenerentola review: Well deserving of its standing ovation
  • Music
  • David Byers
  • November 11, 2019, 14:03

Irish National Opera’s production, featuring Tara Erraught, brings together Rossini’s mix of comedy and tragedy with a light touch

Irish Game of Thrones star denies being coffee cup culprit Irish Game of Thrones star denies being coffee cup culprit
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • November 11, 2019, 08:42

Conleth Hill jokes ‘there’s no proof’ to Emilia Clarke’s claims he was behind blunder

Latest Film

In 2016, Jordan Peterson released a series of Professor Against Political Correctness on YouTube which made him a very divisive figure. ‘There’s a difference between Jordan Peterson and a film about him’
Scott Z Burns at The Report Press Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel on October 16th, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage ‘The CIA won the broadcast war. They always do’
New this week: Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr and Naomi Watts in Luce Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
  • Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
  • The movie quiz: A Martin Scorsese bumper quiz

Film Reviews

Luce (Kelvin Harrison jnr, centre) is an athletic and popular star student in director Julius Onah’s film, based on JC Lee’s play Luce

 
Werner Herzon meets his hero Mikhail Gorbachev to whom he explains most Germans have “overwhelming approval for you personally”. Meeting Gorbachev

 
Ian McKellan and Helen Mirren in The Good Liar The Good Liar

 
Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino and Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran in The Irishman The Irishman

 

TV & Radio

Gerald Fleming has been giving talks about climate disruption since the mid-1980s. Photograph: Midas Productions Gerald Fleming: We need to give climate action ‘a right good go’

Review: Will Ireland Survive 2050? RTÉ documentary shows how destabilised Ireland will become

Jock (Chris Walley) and Conor (Alex Murphy) in The Young Offenders The Young Offenders contains more Cork accents than in past decade on RTÉ
Chris Walley and Alex Murphy in The Young Offenders TV guide: 21 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Irish Game of Thrones star denies being coffee cup culprit
  • Why does The Crown have a problem with Ireland?

Latest Books

Amy Gaffney: a graduate of UCD’s Creative Writing MA where she was co-editor in chief of The HCE Review Mother, May I by Amy Gaffney: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

A graduate of UCD’s creative writing MA, Amy Gaffney co-edited The HCE Review

Orla McAlinden: author of one novel, The Flight of the Wren, and two short story colelctions A Real Woman by Orla McAlinden: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
The Iron 12 memorial during commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the killings in 2015. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy How a jealous lover’s revenge led to the execution of six young Irish soldiers
  • New £5,000 John McGahern Book Prize launched for best Irish fiction debut
  • Una Mannion becomes latest Irish writer to sign major publishing deal with Faber

Latest Music

Laoise Kelly ‘I really want to take the harp off the tax envelope’

Winners of this year's TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards on what the award means to them

Kylie Minogue Kiss Me Once. Kylie Minogue: The diva next door
Pete Townshend: ‘In Ireland, you go to pubs and you see not just good musicians playing together, but supremely good musicians playing together, and it’s a shock that they’re not making millions of quid filling Wembley Stadium.’ Photograph: Terry McGough Pete Townshend: ‘I woke up with a needle in my arm and Phil Lynott standing there’
  • The best trad gigs this week
  • The best rock and pop gigs this week

Album Reviews

FKA Twigs: Magdalene

 
Mango x Mathman provide hope in a time when hope is only afforded to some. Mango x Mathman: Casual Work

 
M'Anam: M'Anam

 
Sorcha Richardson: First Prize Bravery

 
Josienne Clarke: In All Weather

 
A Winged Victory for the Sullen: The Undivided Five

 

Book Reviews

Growing Up With Ireland: Giving voice to the bystanders of history
Who Am I, Again? Lenny Henry leaves audience wanting more
Lake Like a Mirror: Surreal but real stories of women in Malaysia
The Tribe: Caitríona Perry on the political influence of Irish America

Stage

Hannah Gadsby attends the 8th AACTA International Awards on January 4, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for AFI Hannah Gadsby: People were angry that I ‘wasn’t doing comedy right’. I’m angry I got raped

Comedian coming to Dublin with Douglas, the follow-up to her groundbreaking show Nanette

Emily Aoibheann with the ‘giant peral’ created by Liing Heaney for her show Mother of Pearl. Photograph: Emilia Pason ‘So much performance art I’ve explored was into ugliness. I’m now reclaiming beauty’
Surprisingly grating listen: Lisa Dwan in Pale Sister. Photo: Bríd O’Donovan. Pale Sister review: Colm Tóbín’s play more eager to meet a reader than a spectator
  • Corsets and arias: Tara Erraught on life as a mezzo-soprano
  • Abomination: A DUP Opera – ‘It’s not anti-DUP. It’s anti-hate speech’

Art & Design

Kennedy Browne, The Wonder Years Playful experiments on the serious business of data

Aidan Dunne: Kennedy Browne’s guide to a digital, neoliberal world

Paul Hughes, The Infinite Possibilities of the Space Between Infinite possibilities: This week’s best visual arts shows
Vicky Langan in Personal Growth by Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain Art in Focus: Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain – Personal Growth
  • Nature up close and far away
  • Turner Prize nominee surprised at North’s lack of protests over Brexit

Unthinkable

Venus and Jupiter by Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Seneca argued that, since the gods controlled all human affairs, experiencing a setback was a flattering sign that you’d caught their attention. How to deal with life’s setbacks? Think like a Stoic

Unthinkable: The Roman Stoics might just have the answer to all your problems in a ‘convenient’ heavenly fiction

Elizabeth Anderson in her office at the University of Michigan: ‘There is a profound suspicion of anyone who is poor, and a consequent raising to the highest priority imposing incredibly humiliating, harsh conditions on access to welfare benefits.’ Photograph: © John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation – used with permission Why do so many Americans hate the welfare state?
“It’s only recently that we thought animals should be treated with respect and dignity and not tormented.” Photograph: iStock Can you really love a dog? and life’s other big questions
  • How to understand China: Step one, forget about God
  • How do you know you actually exist?

Heritage

James Joyce’s House of the Dead at 15 Usher’s Island. File Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times. Hostel plan for Joyce’s House of the Dead ‘only viable option’

Developer says development would include cultural facility dedicated to James Joyce

Apart from the therapy sessions which the Screamers engaged in they spent time working as a community, weaving, and driving home cattle. Photograph: Pat Langan The Screamers: The story of a hippy commune in northwest Donegal in the 1970s
15 Usher’s Island: ‘not just another house connected with Joyce’ Minister rejects artists’ call for protection of Joyce’s ‘House of the Dead’
  • Archaeologists find possible neolithic log boats near Newgrange
  • When Dublin rollerskating rinks made headline news

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

Tuarascáil

‘Síltear go bhfuil ag éirí le RTÉ agus TG4 éagsúlacht agus tuairmíocht mhalartach a chur ar fáil.’ Grianghraf: Joe St Leger Claíomh Damocles crochta os cionn RTÉ

Ní léir cén fheidhm a bhaineann leis an gcaidreamh idir an rialtas agus RTÉ le scaitheamh anois

Cuan an Bhriotáis. Grianghraf: Getty Cuan an Bhriotáis
‘Ó thaobh na cláirsí de, is leis an gcúigiú aois déag a bhaineann an sampla is luaithe a bhfuil tagtha anuas chugainn don bhfocal cláirseach, cé gur baineadh feidhm as an bhfocal ‘cruit’ níos luaithe.’ Grianghraf: Getty Nasc sanasaíochta le stair na hÉireann
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  • Saoránaigh agus Géillsinigh

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Faces in the crowd: Valerie Cox listens to the stories that knit the fabric of Ireland Growing Up With Ireland: Giving voice to the bystanders of history
Lenny Henry with his mother in January 1975 after he made his TV debut and won New Faces. Photograph: Staff/Mirrorpix/Getty Who Am I, Again? Lenny Henry leaves audience wanting more
Éamon de Valera addressing a meeting in Los Angeles on his US tour as president of Dáil Eireann. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty The Tribe: Caitríona Perry on the political influence of Irish America
The Revolution Files Highlights from the Military Archives with reports from every county
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Pete Townshend: ‘In Ireland, you go to pubs and you see not just good musicians playing together, but supremely good musicians playing together, and it’s a shock that they’re not making millions of quid filling Wembley Stadium.’ Photograph: Terry McGough Pete Townshend: ‘I woke up with a needle in my arm and Phil Lynott standing there’
2 One is not amused: Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth in season three of The Crown. Photograph: Netflix Why does The Crown have a problem with Ireland?
3 Jock (Chris Walley) and Conor (Alex Murphy) in The Young Offenders The Young Offenders contains more Cork accents than in past decade on RTÉ
4 Fliuch, gruaig and loingeas, illustrated by Joe McLaren Béarla, Punt, Fliuch: A history of Ireland in 10 little words
5 Stranger Things, Murder Mystery, Bird Box and Unbelievable. Photographs: Netflix Netflix has revealed its most-watched content. You might be surprised
6 Gerald Fleming has been giving talks about climate disruption since the mid-1980s. Photograph: Midas Productions Gerald Fleming: We need to give climate action ‘a right good go’
7 Apart from the therapy sessions which the Screamers engaged in they spent time working as a community, weaving, and driving home cattle. Photograph: Pat Langan The Screamers: The story of a hippy commune in northwest Donegal in the 1970s
8 Kylie Minogue Kiss Me Once. Kylie Minogue: The diva next door
9 Comedian David Mitchell has just published his latest collection of Observer columns, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy. David Mitchell: ‘The internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation’
10 Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, has been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Photograph: EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist
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Dublin Theatre Festival 2019 Reviews, news and interviews from Ireland’s premier theatre festival
 
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