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Queer Eye ... Don’t ever change Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or not
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 19, 2019, 15:16

None of the transformations is as profound as what the Fab Five do to the English language

Garbage in Dublin: Manson emerges on stage, an absolute badass Garbage in Dublin: Manson emerges on stage, an absolute badass
  • Music
  • Una Mullally
  • July 18, 2019, 23:12

Review: 24 years after the multi-million-selling albums, Shirley Manson’s voice is note-perfect

Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 19, 2019, 17:43

Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?

Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
  • Film
  • Patrick Freyne
  • July 19, 2019, 14:21

Patrick Freyne: A bunch of cats in an alleyway is not remotely as magical as this film depicts

Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 19, 2019, 13:20

Tom Cruise was as unblemished as a newly born kitten 34 years ago and not much has changed

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – a beautiful way to say goodbye Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – a beautiful way to say goodbye
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • July 19, 2019, 05:00

The young Leonard Cohen met Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra, and they began a doomed affair in paradise. Fledgling film-maker Nick Broomfield was there too

What’s that, Skippy? The dog from Brooklyn Nine-Nine has died? Awww What’s that, Skippy? The dog from Brooklyn Nine-Nine has died? Awww
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • July 19, 2019, 05:00

It’s a dog’s life being an animal actor, but they’re the real stars of my fave telly shows

The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director? The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 19, 2019, 15:33

Also: Hitchcock women in danger, adapting Shakespeare, Bond’s numero uno baddie

GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedy GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedy
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 18, 2019, 16:18

Review: The Irish actor’s flailing adventures continue in this edgy Channel 4 sitcom

Gilbert & George: A strange reunion with their younger selves Gilbert & George: A strange reunion with their younger selves
  • Visual Art
  • Jean Grogan
  • July 18, 2019, 06:00

A massive artwork, created when the artists were young, broke and in love, was stolen and thought lost to the art world – until they received a mysterious phone call

Latest Film

That old grim magic: Maxine Peake in Gwen Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director?
Judi Dench in Cats Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
  • Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same
  • Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated

Film Reviews

Keepers: Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin in Tell It to the Bees Tell It to the Bees

 
Agnès Varda: Her love of people informed her documentary work. Photograph: Cine-Tamaris Varda by Agnès

 
Eleanor Worthington-Cox as Gwen Gwen

 
The Lion King, featuring the voices of James Earl Jones as Mufasa, and JD McCrary as Young Simba The Lion King

 

TV & Radio

Queer Eye ... Don’t ever change Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or not

None of the transformations is as profound as what the Fab Five do to the English language

Amy Winehouse in July 2009. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Weekend TV guide: 9 of the best shows to watch
The flailing adventures of a struggling actor continue GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedy
  • Love Island: Who is the new Irish contestant and will he end up in a love triangle?
  • Greg O’Shea enters the Love Island villa

Latest Music

Shirley Manson of Garbage on stage at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin. Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns Garbage in Dublin: Manson emerges on stage, an absolute badass

Review: 24 years after the multi-million-selling albums, Shirley Manson’s voice is note-perfect

A blanket used by a member of the homeless community in West Palm Beach, Florida, US. Photograph: Saul Martinez/The New York Times ‘Baby Shark’ played by US city to deter the homeless
Bernard Sumner: ‘I was 17 and worked in a general office, thinking, ‘Jesus, to quote a Peggy Lee song, is this all there is?’. Photograph: Warren Jackson Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’
  • ‘Making music keeps me alive, being in the music industry almost killed me’
  • Freya Ridings: ‘I wasn’t cool when I was younger. No one wanted anything from me’

Album Reviews

Dude York: Falling

 
Tommy Halferty & Norma Winstone: Tommy Halferty invites Norma Winstone

 
Ider: Emotional Education

 
The Flaming Lips: King's Mouth

 
Alarmist: Sequesterer

 
The artwork for Ed Sheeran’s No 6 Collaborations Project. Ed Sheeran: No 6 Collaborations Project

 

Latest Books

Detail of Samuel Beckett by Carl Köhler Irish Cultural Centre in London gifted portraits of Joyce, Beckett and Behan by artist Carl Köhler

Swedish artist’s son uses Twitter to promote father’s legacy

Boris Johnson at the final Conservative Party leadership hustings held at the ExCel Centre in London, UK, on Wednesday. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Boris Johnson and 72 Virgins: What we can learn from his terrible novel
Kealan Ryan: Almost daily I receive messages from people dealing with loss or pain, be it through similar circumstances in the book or otherwise. ‘I have spent the last several years contemplating what it might be like to be dead’
  • Iris Murdoch’s deep but twisted Irish roots
  • Jo Nesbo: ‘The details of a murder don’t really disturb me’

Book Reviews

The Levelling: A banker’s prescient warning of the growing debt crisis
Call Him Mine: Dial M for murderous prose
Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first love
Range: Forget the ‘10,000 hours’ rule – there’s another way to succeed

Stage

None of the eight guests quite know what they’re doing here Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself

Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) runs until Saturday. Photograph: Steve Tanner Dead Dog in a Suitcase review: An abrasive, ragged comic opera
Karl Shiels appeared in RTÉ’s Fair City, and in many stage productions. Photograph: RTE/PA Wire Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
  • Dead Dog in a Suitcase: High-octane theatre for turbulent times
  • Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this week

Art & Design

Gilbert & George at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. ‘They don’t want to let us go back to the hotel for a rest. I’ve found a way to deal with this. Now, I say, would you mind? You see, we have to masturbate.’ Photograph: Jean Picon Gilbert & George: A strange reunion with their younger selves

A massive artwork, created when the artists were young, broke and in love, was stolen and thought lost to the art world – until they received a mysterious phone call

Nadim Asfar, Leporello. PhotoIreland 2019 Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick film
A Mummer’s Banquet (detail), painted aluminium panel, by John Kindness Art in Focus – A Mummers’ Banquet (detail) by John Kindness
  • Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows
  • Galway arts festival pop-up gallery: a cathedral of light, height and art

Unthinkable

Modern mindfulness ‘is complicit with a neoliberal ethos of self-responsibility that reinforces systems of oppression and injustice’. Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism?

Unthinkable: Ronald E Purser warns against the rise of ethically neutral and self-absorbed spiritual practises

‘If you go from the Skelligs to the Giant’s Causeway, everything about the land has a mythological surface to it.’ Photograph: David Sleator Ireland can manage without the church but can it do without myths?
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines. ‘The prospect of being at the mercy of a future super-intelligence seems entirely realistic,’ says Malcolm Bull. Photograph: Reuters/Warner Bros Why humans need mercy more than justice to survive
  • Should children be taught to be patriotic?
  • The greatest Irish thinker you’ve never read? It could be this man

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

Commemorative plaque at former home of Countess Markievicz in Rathmines. L-R, Lord Mayor Paul McAuliffe, Charles and Olivia Crichton-Stuart, great grandniece of Markievicz, and their children Angus (9) and Amelia (7). Photograph: Tom Honan Commemorative plaque unveiled on 1916 home of Constance Markievicz

Rathmines house ‘more of an army HQ than a home’

Gate lodge to the Jewish cemetery on Fairview Strand: Founded in 1718, it is one of the earliest surviving Jewish burial grounds in Ireland or Britain. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd Ireland’s oldest Jewish cemetery to reopen after 40 years
The Gaelic footballers and fans who refused to fight in the Great War
  • The difference between the average unionist and average nationalist? Not much
  • Moon boy: The Irishman who helped Apollo 11 land on the moon

Tuarascáil

Mick Jagger agus na Rolling Stones i bPáirc an Chrócaigh anuraidh. Chasadar i mBaile Átha Cliath i 1965. Grianghraf: Nick Bradshaw Málaí

Ba mhór idir na haimsirí, is mór idir na faisin, agus is é an faisean a rialaíonn an saol

Tá Berlin ‘faoi choimirce Aingeal na Síochána arís’. Grianghraif: Getty Berlin: Cathair nua-aimseartha atá báite sa stair
Óglaigh na hÉireann. Grianghraf: Aidan Crawley Cén fáth a bhfuilimid in Mali?
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  • Cleachtadh a dhéanann máistreacht

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Globalisation was always about much more than increased trade. Its origins lie in the liberalisation of finance and the weakening of nation states. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty The Levelling: A banker’s prescient warning of the growing debt crisis
Tim MacGabhann: from Kilkenny to Mexico Call Him Mine: Dial M for murderous prose
David Nicholls: His latest novel, Sweet Sorrow, is more indie-movie than Hollywood blockbuster. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first love
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 
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1 Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen, from the film Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love. Photograph courtesy of Roadside Attractions Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – a beautiful way to say goodbye
2 Judi Dench in Cats Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
3 Shirley Manson of Garbage on stage at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin. Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns Garbage in Dublin: Manson emerges on stage, an absolute badass
4 The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director?
5 Tom Cruise speaks at the Top Gun: Maverick panel during 2019 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on Thursday. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same
6 Queer Eye ... Don’t ever change Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or not
7 Boris Johnson at the final Conservative Party leadership hustings held at the ExCel Centre in London, UK, on Wednesday. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Boris Johnson and 72 Virgins: What we can learn from his terrible novel
8 Bernard Sumner: ‘I was 17 and worked in a general office, thinking, ‘Jesus, to quote a Peggy Lee song, is this all there is?’. Photograph: Warren Jackson Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’
9 Karl Shiels appeared in RTÉ’s Fair City, and in many stage productions. Photograph: RTE/PA Wire Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
10 Globalisation was always about much more than increased trade. Its origins lie in the liberalisation of finance and the weakening of nation states. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty The Levelling: A banker’s prescient warning of the growing debt crisis
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