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Dave Grohl in action as the Foo Fighters play the RDS. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Foo Fighters in Dublin: ‘This is the perfect f**king gig’
  • Music
  • Glen Murphy
  • August 21, 2019, 23:32

Review: Only once during the RDS gig did Dave Grohl and friends take a foot off the gas

Wild at art: The edgy arts residencies of Lay of the Land Wild at art: The edgy arts residencies of Lay of the Land
  • Visual Art
  • Manchán Magan
  • August 22, 2019, 05:00

‘Our aim is to drive the experience of art outwards into the wild landscape of this island’

Around the world in 80 aspics: cracking through history’s veneer Around the world in 80 aspics: cracking through history’s veneer
  • Culture
  • John Fleming
  • August 22, 2019, 05:00

The past informs cities like Paris. But visitors must also embrace the enlightenment of now

The Rails: Cancel the Sun review – A stirring slice of Anglicana The Rails: Cancel the Sun review – A stirring slice of Anglicana
  • Music
  • Joe Breen
  • August 22, 2019, 05:00

The husband-and-wife team’s latest album expands on their folk-rock instincts

Lies, bullsh*t and knowledge resistance: A spotter’s guide Lies, bullsh*t and knowledge resistance: A spotter’s guide
  • Culture
  • Joe Humphreys
  • August 21, 2019, 05:45

Amid growing interest in the ‘science of irrationality’, The Irish Times provides an A-Z of common intellectual traps

The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed
  • Film
  • August 21, 2019, 21:57

Dwayne Johnson, Robert Downey Jr, Bradley Cooper make Forbes list

Angel Has Fallen: Bodies, bombs and blood – another Gerard Butler ultraviolent shoot-em-up Angel Has Fallen: Bodies, bombs and blood – another Gerard Butler ultraviolent shoot-em-up
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • August 21, 2019, 17:46

Review: If you love ultraviolent Gerard Butler movies you will probably love this film

Good boy! Can you train a baby like a dog? Good boy! Can you train a baby like a dog?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • August 21, 2019, 11:49

Review: As one of the ‘desperate parents’ to whom this show is pitched, I’ll try anything

Inland by Téa Obreht just might be the literary event of 2019 Inland by Téa Obreht just might be the literary event of 2019
  • Books
  • Niamh Donnelly
  • August 21, 2019, 06:00

Book review: I disliked this on first read, then was absolutely blown away

The Hunger review: An opera let down by its musical material The Hunger review: An opera let down by its musical material
  • Music
  • Michael Dervan
  • August 21, 2019, 13:49

The composer Donnacha Dennehy struggles to convey the horrors of the Great Famine

Latest Film

Dwayne Johnson: the former wrestler has earned an estimated $89.4 million (€80.7million) in the last 12 months. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed
Keanu Reeves in The Martix. Photograph: Warner Bros Keanu Reeves to return to The Matrix as hero Neo in new film
Spider-Man: Kevin Feige’s films as Marvel president have taken nearly €25 billion Spider-Man out of Marvel Cinematic Universe after Disney-Sony split
  • Is James Bond about to die? What the new 007 title might mean
  • Sex, lies, and videotape at 30: How Steven Soderbergh changed independent cinema

Film Reviews

Gerard Butler’s character powers unrealistically through small armies and bullet hail in a way that makes most superheroes look like dying sloths Angel Has Fallen

 
Wang Leehom stars as Lucky Bat, Kelly Clarkson stars as Moxy, and Blake Shelton stars as Ox in UglyDolls. Photograph: STXfilms UglyDolls

 
Penny Slinger has a remarkable body of work Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows

 
Isabela Moner plays Dora dead straight a in a turn that is as magical as it is astute Dora and the Lost City of Gold

 

TV & Radio

Jo-Rosie Haffenden, dog trainer and mind reader Good boy! Can you train a baby like a dog?

Review: As one of the ‘desperate parents’ to whom this show is pitched, I’ll try anything

Lord Mountbatten’s body is brought ashore at Mullaghmore in August 1979. Photograph: Pacemaker, Belfast ‘Dead. Dead. Dead.’ The day Lord Mountbatten, two boys, one woman and 18 soldiers died
Actor Ben Unwin at the first Australian Cosmopolitan Annual Style Awards at the Director’s Suite at Fox Studios in Sydney, 2003. Photograph: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images Home and Away actor Ben Unwin dies aged 41
  • TV guide: 18 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Cillian Murphy: ‘We all have contradictions within us’

Latest Music

Dave Grohl in action as the Foo Fighters play the RDS. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Foo Fighters in Dublin: ‘This is the perfect f**king gig’

Review: Only once during the RDS gig did Dave Grohl and friends take a foot off the gas

Post Malone has an economical, slinky way with tunes. Photograph: Timothy Norris/Getty Images Post Malone at the RDS: Everything you need to know
Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl’s band sell out pretty much wherever they play. Photograph: Thomas Niedermueller/Redferns/Getty Foo Fighters at the RDS: Everything you need to know
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  • The best rock & pop gigs of the week

Album Reviews

The Rails: Cancel the Sun

 
Shura: Forevher

 
Ride: This is Not a Safe Place

 
Eilen Jewell: Gypsy

 
The Murder Capital: When I Have Fears

 
Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won't Hold

 

Latest Books

‘Though now rightly celebrated in Ireland, for many decades it was in America, among Jewish-American authors, that O’Brien found a writerly community that embraced a fellow outsider.’ Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times How Edna O’Brien found sanctuary among Jewish-American writers

Repudiated in Ireland, the author found a receptive audience among writers such as Bellow, Roth and Mailer

Pedestrians walk past soldiers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after anti-internment riots on August 9th, 1971. Photograph: Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images Milkman by Anna Burns: silence as an architectural form of containment
Reclining Buddha, Gal Vihare, Sri Lanka. Photograph: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty The Dhammapada (1st century BC)
  • Children’s books round-up: Grandparents get adventurous
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is a narcissistic monster and a truly great Irish creation

Book Reviews

Inland by Téa Obreht just might be the literary event of 2019
A Thousand Small Sanities: ‘White dude’ mansplains US liberalism
The Catholic School: 1,300 pages of masculinity explained
The Lost Art of Scripture: The sacred texts need to be rescued

Stage

The gag comes from Olaf Falafel’s show, It’s One Giant Leek for Mankind The funniest joke from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019

Surrealist Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel won a prize for his food-themed rib-tickler

Eoin Cannon as Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes The Musical. Malachy McCourt: ‘Frank wouldn’t be happy unless he was miserable’
Spliced: Timmy Creed’s insider position, and love of the sport, give him credibility in discussing how to tackle some of masculinity’s less appealing aspects ‘I felt like a spy infiltrating the IRA’: The hurler who exposed his sport
  • Kinky Boots: ‘Two and a half feet of tubular, irresistible sex’
  • Much Ado about Nothing review: Booze, subversion and anxiety

Art & Design

Floating Stones, from Silva 2018, a site-responsive residency and exhibition at Knockomagh Wood nature reserve by Lough Hyne, west Cork. Photograph Fellipe Lopes Wild at art: The edgy arts residencies of Lay of the Land

‘Our aim is to drive the experience of art outwards into the wild landscape of this island’

Nathaniel Hone the Younger, A View of Cliffs, Etretat, Oil on canvasPhotograph: National Gallery of Ireland Nathaniel Hone: A puzzle in the history of Irish art
Michael Cullen’s Studio Scene with Still Life and Irises, an oil on linen, 45cm x 50cm painting at Taylor Galleries Art in Focus: Michael Cullen – Studio Scene with Still Life and Irises
  • The best art exhibitions of the week
  • Sorolla: A master of light comes back out of the shadows

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

The data shows the importance of migration as, without the Vikings, the population decline could have been much worse, according to the researchers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Ireland’s population in ‘serious decline’ before Vikings’ arrival

Vikings more successful than ‘natives’ in expanding population, research shows

In May 1969 St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Co Kildare, was causing a stir. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons When ‘girl students’ joined the priests-to-be in Maynooth
Sackville Street, Dublin, late 19th century. Photograph: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Irish Times small ads, 1886 – Wanted: a lost cow, a wife with €1,000, a mildly insane tenant
  • Historic cemetery in decline amid ownership row
  • Thirty-five girls died in the 1943 fire. All the nuns survived

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‘Tar éis an tsaoil, is é is brí le himpireacht ná go mbeadh an pobal cloíte ina sclábhaithe duit.’ Grianghraf: PA. Comóradh Ceart

Ba chuige an stát dínit a thabhairt dúinn inár mbeatha shaolta agus inár mbeatha idéalaíoch

Slabhra nóiníní: beidh cáil sa 21ú aois ar shlabhra de chineál eile fós. Grianghraf: istock An córas slabhraithe nua
Tá an garraí suite díreach ag crosbhóthar Bhóthar na Gráinnsí agus Ascaill an Gharráin Chnó. Grianghraf: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times 1798: Stair ligthe i nDearmad
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1 The data shows the importance of migration as, without the Vikings, the population decline could have been much worse, according to the researchers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Ireland’s population in ‘serious decline’ before Vikings’ arrival
2 Dave Grohl in action as the Foo Fighters play the RDS. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Foo Fighters in Dublin: ‘This is the perfect f**king gig’
3 Dwayne Johnson: the former wrestler has earned an estimated $89.4 million (€80.7million) in the last 12 months. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed
4 It is possible Donald Trump is engaging in sincere deception when says he is unaware of Russia’s role in helping him to be elected. Possible but not very likely. Photograph: Reuters Lies, bullsh*t and knowledge resistance: A spotter’s guide
5 Spider-Man: Kevin Feige’s films as Marvel president have taken nearly €25 billion Spider-Man out of Marvel Cinematic Universe after Disney-Sony split
6 John Wayne drags poor Maureen O’Hara across the windy turf like a cave man Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes
7 The late Peter Fonda with his father Henry and daughter Jane, circa 1963. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dad
8 Lord Mountbatten’s body is brought ashore at Mullaghmore in August 1979. Photograph: Pacemaker, Belfast ‘Dead. Dead. Dead.’ The day Lord Mountbatten, two boys, one woman and 18 soldiers died
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