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Are U2 calling it a day?: Bono at the first Dublin show of the Experience + Innocence tour. Photograph: Tom Honan U2 ‘going away now’, Bono declares at last Experience + Innocence show
  • Music
  • November 14, 2018, 10:24

Berlin comment prompts speculation that band calling it a day after 40 years on road

Deborah Kelleher’s ambitious plan for the Royal Irish Academy of Music Deborah Kelleher’s ambitious plan for the Royal Irish Academy of Music
  • Culture
  • Michael Dervan
  • November 14, 2018, 05:00

The director took over at a tough time. Now she’s driving the academy's expansion for the 21st century

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Like a hugely dull work bash Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Like a hugely dull work bash
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 14, 2018, 06:00

Review: JK Rowling’s yarn plays like a fragmented fan fiction assembled through Twitter

From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever
  • Music
  • Michael Dervan
  • November 14, 2018, 05:00

Composers have always been drawn to honour the dead with powerful, passionate music

I’m a Celebrity 2018: Noel Edmonds vs the hunks, honeys and diamond geezers I’m a Celebrity 2018: Noel Edmonds vs the hunks, honeys and diamond geezers
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • November 14, 2018, 06:00

The Deal or No Deal presenter promises pure TV gold in the jungle

Maurice McCabe: The sorriest part is how isolated he still seems Maurice McCabe: The sorriest part is how isolated he still seems
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 13, 2018, 12:25

Whistleblower review: Airing garda’s clean laundry in public makes his goodness hard to relate to

Date for final Game of Thrones season revealed Date for final Game of Thrones season revealed
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • November 13, 2018, 18:51

Trailer for eighth season of the award-winning show prepares viewers for battles to come

From Damien Hirst to Marcel Duchamp, what makes artists tick? From Damien Hirst to Marcel Duchamp, what makes artists tick?
  • Culture
  • Gemma Tipton
  • November 13, 2018, 05:00

Sarah Thornton has been asking artists about myths, muses and their ‘less normal’ lives

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Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national icons Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national icons
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 12, 2018, 21:52

Donald Clarke: Writer gave superheroes like Spider-Man and Captain America complex interior life

Latest Film

Douglas Rain: the actor as King Henry IV at the Stratford Festival in 1979. Photograph: Stratford Festival via AP Douglas Rain, the voice of Hal in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, dies aged 90
Toy Story 4: due in cinemas in January 2019. Photograph: Disney/Pixar ‘Toy Story 4’: first new teaser trailer released
Stan Lee: as chief writer and editor at Marvel Comics, he helped create the 20th century’s superheroes. Photograph: Chad Batka/New York Times Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national icons
  • Freddie Mercury’s teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? Meet their maker
  • Event of the Week: The IFI French Film Festival

Film Reviews

Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

 
Jackson ploughed through the Imperial War Museum’s archives, polished up the footage, and rendered it in 3-D They Shall Not Grow Old

 
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Grinch The Grinch

 
As JJ Abrams-produced joints go, Overlord splats right in the middle Overlord

 

Latest Music

Are U2 calling it a day?: Bono at the first Dublin show of the Experience + Innocence tour. Photograph: Tom Honan U2 ‘going away now’, Bono declares at last Experience + Innocence show

Berlin comment prompts speculation that band calling it a day after 40 years on road

The Wood Burning Savages 15 rock and pop concerts to see this week in Ireland
Tank and the Bangas New artist of the week: Tank and the Bangas
  • This Album Changed My Life: The Cure – Disintegration (1989)
  • Ensemble éiru make rare outing at NCH: the must-see jazz gigs this week

Album Reviews

Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever

 
Ryley Walker: The Lillywhite Sessions

 
Subplots: A Silent Phase

 
Imagine Dragons: Origins

 
Muse: Simulation Theory

 
THE BEATLES: The Beatles (White Album)

 

Latest Books

Eleanor Alexander, of St Dominic’s PPU, Sophia Hillan, Mary O’Donnell and Catherine Dunne. Photograph: Bobbie Hanvey From First Arts English at Queen’s in 1968 to a first short story collection today

Sophia Hillan salutes mentors Michael McLaverty, Seamus Heaney, Sam Hanna Bell, David Marcus and Alan Hayes

Sarah Benson, CEO of Ruhama: I became completely engrossed in a beautiful story of unlikely friendship, solidarity and sacrifice which created a paradoxical reading experience – simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming. Photograph: Maura Hickey How can the arts serve social awareness and activism?
Hodges, Figgis & Co: a famous Dublin bookstore and one of the oldest Irish publishing houses David and Goliath, piracy and censorship: the history of Irish publishing
  • ‘A concise and topical guide to the Irish Border for bewildered Brits’
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama: the former first lady gets personal

Book Reviews

Crimson review: No country for young women
Jeeves and the King of Clubs review: pale imitation
Adam Smith by Jesse Norman review: Beyond the caricature
The Wrong Country review: fluent study of modern Irish writing

TV & Radio

I’m a Celebrity: the 2018 lineup. TV presenter Noel Edmonds was added to the contestants on Tuesday I’m a Celebrity 2018: Noel Edmonds vs the hunks, honeys and diamond geezers

The Deal or No Deal presenter promises pure TV gold in the jungle

Date for final Game of Thrones season revealed
Garda whistleblower: Maurice McCabe with his wife, Lorraine. Photograph: Barry Cronin Maurice McCabe: The sorriest part is how isolated he still seems
  • Ben Stiller goes darker for a real-life prison break
  • Maurice McCabe to reveal harrowing strain on family in new TV documentary

Stage

Lauren Coe as Emma in Landmark Productions and the Everyman world premiere production of Asking for It by Louise O Neill. Photograph: Hugh O Conor This week’s theatre highlights

Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust

The School Days of Thaddeus K: the name of Blue Raincoat’s protagonist recalls the Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, whose seminal 1975 work The Dead Class made school a living hell The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time
Double Cross: Ian Toner in this Abbey-Lyric coproduction Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
  • The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
  • Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight

Art & Design

Maeve McCarthy, In the garden, oil on linen, Molesworth Gallery Twilight zones: finding a way home through the half-light

Maeve McCarthy’s new paintings are quiet and still, but also evoke restlessness

Ruth Ellis with her boyfriend David Blakely at the Little Club in London in 1955 Ruth Ellis: The model who smiled at her executioner
A selection of cans from Whiplash Brewing Company Art and craft: how beer packaging got creative
  • Art in focus: The Augurs I, II and III by Martin Healy
  • We asked for your ideas to improve Dublin - here's what you said

Unthinkable

Muslim praying in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Islam has ‘given rise to remarkably free societies as well as depressingly intolerant ones’. Photograph: AP/Muhammed Muheisen What can the West learn from the rest?

Unthinkable: Borrowing foreign ideas can expand our thinking, says Julian Baggini

‘My position is to recommend that people consider parenting a child with Down syndrome, if given the opportunity’. Photograph: iStock Is economics corrupting our idea of human worth?
Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?
  • What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
  • A ‘third way’ of looking at religion

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

Pearse House flats Photograph: Tom Honan Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'

Dublin city councillors move to allow demolition of Herbert Simms flats

British soldiers eating rations in the Ancre Valley in France during the Battle of the Somme, October 1916. Photograph: Lt. E Brooks/ IWM via Getty Images Armistice Day: The forgotten Sligo men who never came home from the war
French president Emmanuel Macron at a ceremony marking the centenary of the end of the first World War at the Douaumont Ossuary cemetery near Verdun. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AP First World War’s final hours: A French bugler sounded the ceasefire at 11am
  • Forgotten heroines: The Irish women who died in the first World War
  • Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought

Treibh

Luí na gréine. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Beo idir tonnta dorcha an Gheimhridh

Díth solais, údar ón Afraic agus seolta leabhar

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Seó mór na Gaeltachta, Aisling?, ar camchuairt
Niall Ferguson – staraí Ar bhuille na haon uaire déag
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  • Úrscéal mór de chuid Chinua Achebe le fáil i nGaeilge

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1 Are U2 calling it a day?: Bono at the first Dublin show of the Experience + Innocence tour. Photograph: Tom Honan U2 ‘going away now’, Bono declares at last Experience + Innocence show
2 Garda whistleblower: Maurice McCabe with his wife, Lorraine. Photograph: Barry Cronin Maurice McCabe: The sorriest part is how isolated he still seems
3 Explosive: Friedrich Nietzsche. Photograph: Culture Club/Getty Images I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche review: A gripping read
4 A truck is stopped at the Border by Free State customs officers. Photograph: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images ‘A concise and topical guide to the Irish Border for bewildered Brits’
5 Muslim praying in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Islam has ‘given rise to remarkably free societies as well as depressingly intolerant ones’. Photograph: AP/Muhammed Muheisen What can the West learn from the rest?
6 Pearse House flats Photograph: Tom Honan Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'
7 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
8 Deborah Kelleher of the Royal Irish Academy of Music: ‘The solo piano was receding. I was nervous as a solo pianist. There wasn’t enough in it for me to want to continue.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne Deborah Kelleher’s ambitious plan for the Royal Irish Academy of Music
9 (Original Caption) 'Germany: World War I Armistice: Officers celebrate at captured German canteen.' In reality, the industrial nature of the slaughter destroyed all the notions of individual heroism and chivalry. Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought
10 Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever review – he’s the sultan of storytelling
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(Original Caption) 'Germany: World War I Armistice: Officers celebrate at captured German canteen.' In reality, the industrial nature of the slaughter destroyed all the notions of individual heroism and chivalry. Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought
Leo Varadkar is hoisted on shoulders after being elected as leader of Fine Gael at the Mansion House, Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times ‘Leo Varadkar: A Very Modern Taoiseach’ is shallow, flimsy and exaggerated
Spike Lee at the premiere of his new film ‘BlacKkKlansman’ in California. “I hope that this film can give some little extra push or touch or anything to get people to register to vote.” Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’

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