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A fans reacts as she watches HBO’s Game of Thrones series finale at a viewing party at Brennan’s bar in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck/Beck/AFP/Getty Images Game of Thrones is over. How was it for you?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • May 20, 2019, 15:53

Share your views, feelings and frustrations about the final episode of season 8

Irlande, nul points: Full Eurovision results show Irish entry came last Irlande, nul points: Full Eurovision results show Irish entry came last
  • Music
  • May 20, 2019, 11:27

22, sung by Sarah McTernan, scored just 16 points and finished bottom in the semi-finals

Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending? Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • May 20, 2019, 13:15

If you thought it would be a universally satisfying final episode you haven’t been paying attention

‘Absolutely abysmal’: Critics rip apart Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new book ‘Absolutely abysmal’: Critics rip apart Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new book
  • Books
  • Frances Perraudin
  • May 20, 2019, 13:40

AN Wilson describes The Victorians as ‘a dozen pompous schoolboy compositions’

The Magic Flute review: Riveting music, touching, satisfying performances The Magic Flute review: Riveting music, touching, satisfying performances
  • Music
  • Michael Dungan
  • May 20, 2019, 14:08

Caroline Staunton directs an entertaining, thought-provoking Mozart production for Irish National Opera

Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 20, 2019, 13:05

Cannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for mutts

Mariah Carey at 3Arena Dublin: Tickets, doors, setlist Mariah Carey at 3Arena Dublin: Tickets, doors, setlist
  • Music
  • May 20, 2019, 15:55

Are there tickets for sale, what time is she on stage, what songs will she sing and more

Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’ Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’
  • Stage
  • Jane Coyle
  • May 20, 2019, 05:00

Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland

Flying Lotus: Flamagra review – A sprawling masterwork of genius Flying Lotus: Flamagra review – A sprawling masterwork of genius
  • Music
  • Dean Van Nguyen
  • May 20, 2019, 06:00

Steven Ellison pulls in multiple threads from his unimpeachable discography to form his most accessible collection to date

Game of Thrones: Rogue water bottle spotted in series finale Game of Thrones: Rogue water bottle spotted in series finale
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • May 20, 2019, 09:30

Eagle-eyed fans spot plastic bottle, two weeks after a coffee cup made a surprise appearance

Latest Film

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Arnold Classic Africa, a sporting festival held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph: Michele Spatari/AFP/Getty Images Schwarzenegger ‘not pressing charges’ after attack in South Africa
Cannes catch: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in Robert Eggers’s extraordinary film The Lighthouse Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn poses during a photocall for the film Too Old To Die Young - North of Hollywood, West of Hell at the 72nd in Cannes. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images Cannes 2019: Irish movie Vivarium gets thumbs up from critics
  • Cannes 2019: Where the rich shell out for big ticket events
  • Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception

Film Reviews

Derren Nesbitt and Jordan Stephensin Tucked, directed by Jamie Patterson Tucked

 
Carmiña Martínez in Birds of Passage Birds of Passage

 
The Paw Patrol Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups

 
Unauthorised raves: Lorn Macdonald as the madcap Spanner in Beats Beats

 

TV & Radio

A fans reacts as she watches HBO’s Game of Thrones series finale at a viewing party at Brennan’s bar in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck/Beck/AFP/Getty Images Game of Thrones is over. How was it for you?

Share your views, feelings and frustrations about the final episode of season 8

Daenerys congratulates her unruly Dothraki cavalry and her forever ruly Unsullied infantry Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending?
The offending scene with the water bottle. Photograph: @JonxDanyy Game of Thrones: Rogue water bottle spotted in series finale
  • More Jeremy Kyle Show guests killed themselves, it emerges
  • Game of Thrones series 8 debate: Perfectly pitched or creative flop?

Latest Music

Eurovision 2019: Sarah McTernan performs 22 for Ireland in Israel last Thursday. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Irlande, nul points: Full Eurovision results show Irish entry came last

22, sung by Sarah McTernan, scored just 16 points and finished bottom in the semi-finals

Mariah Carey: the first time the Grammy-winning singer brings a tour to Ireland. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Mariah Carey at 3Arena Dublin: Tickets, doors, setlist
Protesters hold a demonstration outside the Eurovision 2019 venue in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA Eurovision: Israeli minister criticises shows of Palestinian solidarity
  • ‘Like two Abercrombie models at the Wesley disco’: The best and worst of Eurovision 2019
  • The Netherlands has won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest

Album Reviews

Flying Lotus: Flamagra

 
The National: I Am Easy to Find

 
Joan as Police Woman: Joanthology

 
Colm Mac Con Iomaire: The River Holds Its Breath: Tost ar an Abhainn

 
Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated

 
In Their Thousands: Acrasia

 

Latest Books

Alan Titley in 1999: it is almost 16 years since The Irish Times published his first Crobhingne column. Photograph: Frank Miller Alan Titley: creative expression sourced in his own ethical code

His output is prodigious as is his range of subject and theme

French author Annie Ernaux at home in June 1992. Photograph: Getty Images Literature in translation: the examined life is still worth living
Dave Duggan’s Oak and Stone kicks off as a kind of homage to the quirky black comedy of Colin Bateman. Crime fiction round-up: Dave Duggan’s thriller begins on a football pitch
  • Tropisms (1939) by Nathalie Sarraute, translated by Maria Jolas
  • Naomi Wolf: ‘Never before have I seen so many threats to free speech. It is chilling’

Book Reviews

The Last Leonardo review: Making an argument for value of art
Saltwater review: A coming-of-age novel and a fluid and crisp love note to a mother
Once More We Saw Stars review: painfully intimate truths of grief laid bare
Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists review – powerful but shocking

Stage

Abbey Theatre: A large meeting of the letter’s signatories was held at the weekend where frustration was expressed at the slow progress of talks. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times Theatre workers write to Minister again, frustrated by slow Abbey progress

‘We have no confidence that our concerns are a priority for the current management’

Amy Molloy: “We’re all on the same page with the world we’re creating and the story we’re wanting to tell” Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’
Citysong The past is always present: This week’s theatre highlights
  • Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
  • Dublin Dance Festival review: A riot of movement and sound

Art & Design

Treecurtin by David Crone. Courtesy of the artist Art in Focus: Treecurtin by David Crone

From Troubles Belfast to his back garden, David Crone finds riches in his environment

Alan Butler, Death Valley (2018), Lightfast pigment ink on 100% archival cotton-rag paper cold-mounted onto di-bond. 230 x 125cms (detail) Burrowing into your brain: This week’s visual art highlights
The male gaze filtered through a young woman's eyes
  • IM Pei, architect who designed the Louvre pyramid, dies at 102
  • Exploring the links between Islamic and Celtic art

Unthinkable

Iris Murdoch: ‘It’s been easy to dismiss Murdoch as a philosopher because she was such a brilliant novelist.’ Photograph: Getty Why the world needs Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of ‘unselfing’

Centenary of author’s birth in Dublin is being used as an occasion to reclaim her moral vision

Siri Hustvedt: Philosopher or novelist? Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Can a novel also be a work of philosophy?
Donald Trump, a winner at the ballot box, but ‘the Stoics argued one cannot take pride in one’s life unless it is a virtuous life’. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Why be good when it seems like nasty guys finish first?
  • Do male and female brains differ? A philosophical response
  • Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

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 ‘back lane of no importance’ in Dublin that excelled in the 1970s

The Times We Lived In: Published Thursday, September 9th, 1971 

Panti Bliss in Thisispopbaby’s Riot globetrotting cabaret show. Photograph: Ian Douglas Rioting in Dublin theatres is nothing new
Siobhán Hegarty: Visitors to Moore Street are getting robbed, they are getting abused. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy ‘Anything is better than what’s here’ - traders react to latest plan for Moore Street
  • The stinking mud heaps that plagued Dublin in the 1870s
  • The second World War ‘Éire’ sign rescued from a Dublin cliffside

Tuarascáil

Is ea, táimid an-tugtha don bhriathar. Agus ní haon díobháil é sin. Grianghraf: iStockphoto/Getty Briathar agus gníomh

An bhfuil tús áite ag ceann amháin acu ar a chéile?

‘N’fheadar fútsa, ach is aoibhinn liomsa aimsir toghcháin.’ Griangraf: Eric Luke Na cuaillí feistithe
De réir Roinn na Gaeltachta, táthar ag súil leis go mbainfidh suas le 175 mac léinn leas as an scéim in aghaidh na bliana. Grianghraif: Joe O’Shaughnessy/Irish Times ‘Erasmus na Gaeilge’ fógartha ag Seán Kyne
  • Cad iad na ‘taboos’ seo nach bhfuil daoine ag caint fúthu?
  • Ó d’imigh tú uainn

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Chernobyl: more than a historical drama, it's a cautionary tale for our times Chernobyl: more than a historical drama, it's a cautionary tale for our times

On the 30th anniversary of the tragedy Sky Atlantic presents a five-part miniseries that unlocks the story behind the worst nuclear disaster in hist

Game of Thrones: The epic fantasy’s final season News, reviews, recaps and interviews as the series comes to an end
 
Cannes film festival Donald Clarke brings you the best from Promenade de la Croisette
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Jacob Rees-Mogg: the MP is often referred to as the honourable member for the 18th century, ‘a nod to those funny clothes he wears, along with pretending not to know’ any pop songs. Photograph: Colin McPherson/Corbis/Getty ‘Absolutely abysmal’: Critics rip apart Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new book
2 Eurovision 2019: Sarah McTernan performs 22 for Ireland in Israel last Thursday. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Irlande, nul points: Full Eurovision results show Irish entry came last
3 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Arnold Classic Africa, a sporting festival held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph: Michele Spatari/AFP/Getty Images Schwarzenegger ‘not pressing charges’ after attack in South Africa
4 Daenerys congratulates her unruly Dothraki cavalry and her forever ruly Unsullied infantry Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending?
5 Iris Murdoch: ‘It’s been easy to dismiss Murdoch as a philosopher because she was such a brilliant novelist.’ Photograph: Getty Why the world needs Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of ‘unselfing’
6 Game of Thrones: endgame. Photographs: HBO Game of Thrones series 8 debate: Perfectly pitched or creative flop?
7 Seamus Mallon in 1998, when he was deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
8 A fans reacts as she watches HBO’s Game of Thrones series finale at a viewing party at Brennan’s bar in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck/Beck/AFP/Getty Images Game of Thrones is over. How was it for you?
9 Amy Molloy: “We’re all on the same page with the world we’re creating and the story we’re wanting to tell” Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’
10 The men who commit public atrocities have very probably practised their terrorism at home first. Photos of the two brothers responsible for the bloody massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in 2015. Photograph: French Police/AFP/Getty Images Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists review – powerful but shocking
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Seamus Mallon in 1998, when he was deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
Nothing to sing about?: 10-year-old Mona Abdulmagid (foreground of montage) takes part in the the Ireland Palestine Alliance’s boycott-Eurovision campaign. Last year’s winner was the Israeli singer Netta Barzilai (background) Fintan O’Toole: Everything about Israel is political, even Eurovision
David Puttnam at home in Skibereen, Co Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision David Puttnam: ‘I feel no sense of identity for the country I grew up in’

On My Culture Radar

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The funnyman on immersive one-man show The Encounter and odd Swedish film Border

Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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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

Doris Day in costume on the set of Calamity Jane. Photograph: Ed Clark/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Doris Day: A life in pictures
Red electrical tape marks out our playing space on the timber floor. One side of this line denotes the stage; outside of this line is known as the wings. Here, bits of costume and props line up, ready to be brought on stage. Among these props – suitcases, wine bottles, letters – lies a digital camera, very much out of place in this world of 1940s Galway. We’re in the Lab on Foley Street in Dublin. It’s week three of rehearsals for Light a Penny Candle. Maeve Binchy’s heartfelt story, adapted wisely for stage by Shay Linehan, is taking shape. I’ve brought my camera with me this week; I leave it off to the side as we work through the text. Light a Penny Candle: The rehearsal room laid bare
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