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Mairead Ronan and John Nolan with the Gtitterball Trophy after winning this year's Dancing with the Stars. Photograph: Kyran O'Brien Mairéad Ronan is this year's winner of Dancing with the Stars
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 24, 2019, 21:23

TV presenter’s sheer likability sees off actor Johnny Ward and country singer Cliona Hagan

Shazam! The tangled history behind a lost superhero Shazam! The tangled history behind a lost superhero
  • Film
  • Donal O'Keeffe
  • March 25, 2019, 05:00

The character now called Shazam was born 80 years ago when comics were the wild west

Dancing With The Stars 2019: the highs, lows, in-betweens and Nicky Byrne’s quiff Dancing With The Stars 2019: the highs, lows, in-betweens and Nicky Byrne’s quiff
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 25, 2019, 06:00

It’s a winning formula which brings in thousands of viewers each week, but that does not mean all is right on the dancefloor

Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • March 24, 2019, 06:00

In the absence of transparent answers, intricate theories become very seductive

Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio gold Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio gold
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

Radio Review: After initial gruffness, Duffy grows genuinely concerned for his guest

The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear
  • Art & Design
  • Frank McDonald
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

It’s hard for Brian Hogan to see his Dublin office blocks being razed for redevelopment

TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • March 24, 2019, 06:00

Including Derry Girls, Blue Planet Live, This Time with Alan Partridge, and MasterChef

David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties
  • Books
  • Sean Sheehan
  • March 23, 2019, 06:00

Beatles or Stones, Kray twin or Andy Warhol, you were nobody until Bailey shot you

TOWIE series 24: still flaky after all these years, thank goodness TOWIE series 24: still flaky after all these years, thank goodness
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

Reality TV: The cast are whisked to Thailand, but they’re as inane and immature as ever

Willem Dafoe: A portrait of the artist as a young man Willem Dafoe: A portrait of the artist as a young man
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it

Latest Film

Shazam! seems part of a course correction toward more light-hearted, audience-friendly movies Shazam! The tangled history behind a lost superhero
Vincent Van Gogh: Willem Dafoe as the painter in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate Willem Dafoe: A portrait of the artist as a young man
Liam Neeson The movie quiz: Which director steered clear of Liam Neeson?
  • Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • Once upon a Time in Hollywood trailer drops, and it’s unreconstructed Tarantino

Film Reviews

Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s Oscar-nominated documentary. Photograph courtesy of Sundance Institute Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s Oscar-nominated documentary. Photograph courtesy of Sundance Institute Minding the Gap

 
Sharkwater Extinction: We are killing around 150 million sharks a year Sharkwater Enxtinction

 
Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow The White Crow

 
The millions who enjoyed Get Out will expect a debate about socio-political discontents Us

 

Latest Music

Patrick Rafter: “I thought, if I want to do what Nigel Kennedy does, I need to pull myself together.” Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times Patrick Rafter: ‘I was too chilled out to be a violin prodigy’

The gifted Kilkenny violinist plays from the heart, but keeps a strong head on his shoulders

Picture This play five nights in Dublin’s 3Arena, Dublin from March 27th to March 31st. Picture This at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know
File image of Barbra Streisand and Michael Jackson. File photograph: Getty Images File image of Barbra Streisand and Michael Jackson. File photograph: Getty Images Barbra Streisand: Michael Jackson’s alleged abuse ‘did not kill’ accusers
  • New Artist of the Week: Chai
  • This Album Changed My Life: The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

Album Reviews

Maverick Sabre: When I Wake Up

 
Nilüfer Yanya : Miss Universe

 
Orville Peck: Pony

 
DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy: Tuez-Les Tous

 
Jason Ringenberg: Stand Tall

 
Ye Vagabonds: The Hare's Lament

 

Latest Books

British prime minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker look at each other during a news conference in Strasbourg earlier this month. Photograph: Vincent Kessler / Reuters Europe’s view on Brexit: it’s the politics, stupid

Brexiters don’t get it but in Europe’s moments of truth, politics trumps the economy

Mike McCormack: It was such a boost to my confidence as a young writer to see my story in print. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell Mike McCormack: It all started in the wild west of Louisburgh
Hennessy New Irish Writing judges Ciaran Carty, Martina Evans and Eoin McNamee Hennessy 2019 nominees: First Fiction, Emerging Poetry, Emerging Fiction
  • Why We Get The Wrong Politicians review: Could we really be this useless?
  • David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties

Book Reviews

Memories of the Future review: a playful memoir of an imagination
A Hidden Landscape Once a Week review: Between the lines of UK rock journalism
Instructions for a Funeral review: Exquisite, truth-bending stories
The Friends of Harry Perkins: A Very British Coup gets a sequel

TV & Radio

Lack of spark: Dancing with the Stars co-hosts Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne. Photographs: Kyran O'Brien Dancing With The Stars 2019: the highs, lows, in-betweens and Nicky Byrne’s quiff

It’s a winning formula which brings in thousands of viewers each week, but that does not mean all is right on the dancefloor

Mairead Ronan and John Nolan with the Gtitterball Trophy after winning this year's Dancing with the Stars. Photograph: Kyran O'Brien Mairéad Ronan is this year's winner of Dancing with the Stars
The Miami Showband, killed in 1975. From left: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O’Toole, Des Lee Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre
  • TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Game of Thrones tapestry to journey ‘home’ to Bayeux

Stage

underCURRENT: the camp cabaret spans burlesque, dance, drag and live music. Photograph: Eddie Kavanagh LGBTQI+ nightlife: Genre-busting, gender-bending gas

Dublin’s thriving alternative scene is a key part of working out what Ireland wants to be

Beg, steal or borrow? Clare Monnelly in Charlie’s a Clepto Shoplifters of the world unite: Charlie’s a Clepto is this week’s theatre highlight
Actor Owen Roe winner of the Special Tribute Award at the 22nd Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
  • Performance of Abbey show cancelled after technical glitch
  • Sure Look It, Fuck It review: Clare Dunne soars in grungy ode to Dublin and home

Art & Design

Safe for now: Lansdowne House, Brian Hogan’s Ballsbridge office block, is so distinctive it should be a protected structure. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear

It’s hard for Brian Hogan to see his Dublin office blocks being razed for redevelopment

Mary Swanzy, ‘Portrait of Gertrude Jekyll’, private collection Mary Swanzy arrives in Cork, and the other best exhibitions this week
The Drenched Forest, 2018 (oil and acrylic on canvas, 120x120cm), Cecilia Danell. Image courtesy the artist. Art in Focus – The Drenched Forest by Cecilia Danell
  • ‘She’s rebellious’: Irish actor inspires giant #MeToo sculpture
  • Stephen McKenna: a painters’ painter

Unthinkable

A pro-Brexit activist holds a placard outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/ AFP/Getty Images ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe

Unthinkable: People want ‘sovereignty’ over their lives, says philosopher Michele Nicoletti

Remainers showed ‘a lethal combination of arrogance and naivety’ ahead of the 2016 referendum. Photograph: Reuters/Henry Nicholls Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six
‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed
  • How to find your inner Zen Buddhist
  • Living in the now: It’s not as simple as you’d think

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

1846: starving peasants clamour at the gates of a workhouse during the Famine. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Famine changed everything – and nothing

A report in The Irish Times in 1860 showed political arguments were back in full swing

Lilian Bland at the controls of the Mayfly. The highs and lows of those early aviation years
The 16th, 17th (St Patrick’s Day) and 18th March: Erskine Nicol’s painting of the Irish celebration that included Sheelah’s Day. Photograph courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland Sheelah take a bow: This Irish icon was far more than just St Patrick’s wife
  • Westmeath was a hotbed of ‘leprechaun’ activity in 1908
  • Fintan O’Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald Trump

Tuarascáil

Baill de chór Phobal Aifreann Dhún Laoghaire lasmuigh d’Eaglais Naomh Mícheál. In éineacht leo tá Sophie McAteer (6) a deartháir Zachary (8) Mac Dara Ó Drisceoil (8) agus a dheartháir Tadhg (5). Grianghraf: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times Cliseadh cumarsáide ina údar aighnis?

‘Tá siad tar éis muid a chaitheamh amach ón ár séipéal féin’

B’fhéidir go mbeadh ar na nuachtáin agus ar na meáin shóisialta gan aird ar bith a thabhairt ar Sparkle Markle ná ar Willie Nillie ná ar Annraoi a Nocht. Grianghraf: Mark Blinch/Reuters Dá mba rud é gur sinne a bheadh á rialú
Bhí eolas maith ag Dermot faoin slua sí ó dhúchas. Scéal ‘Budgie’: Ag amharc siar
  • Breatimeacht, Britimeacht, Broimeacht nó Brotimeacht?
  • An Gréasán: Guth nua do mhúinteoirí iar-bhunscoile Gaeilge

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1 Mairead Ronan and John Nolan with the Gtitterball Trophy after winning this year's Dancing with the Stars. Photograph: Kyran O'Brien Mairéad Ronan is this year's winner of Dancing with the Stars
2 The Miami Showband, killed in 1975. From left: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O’Toole, Des Lee Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre
3 Lack of spark: Dancing with the Stars co-hosts Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne. Photographs: Kyran O'Brien Dancing With The Stars 2019: the highs, lows, in-betweens and Nicky Byrne’s quiff
4 Last night’s episode of the spoof magazine show featured Steve Coogan playing an Irish farmer named Martin Brennan. Screenshot: BBC Alan Partridge singing Come Out, Ye Black and Tans both awkward and hilarious
5 Margaret Atwood on MeToo’s limitations: “Domestic violence among people who aren’t rich, it’s not reaching there yet.” Photograph: Tara Ziemba/WireImage Margaret Atwood: ‘When did it become the norm to expect a porn star on the first date?’
6 Shazam! seems part of a course correction toward more light-hearted, audience-friendly movies Shazam! The tangled history behind a lost superhero
7 Joe Duffy: ‘I wasn’t talking about burqas.’ Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio gold
8 Philip K Dick won the admiration of writers beyond his genre, including Roberto Bolaño and Martin Amis. Photograph: Philippe Hupp/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Valis (1981) by Philip K Dick
9 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
10 Diversity in our diet and food culture is dying. Photograph: Getty Images The Way We Eat Now: Food has become strange, intense, hysterical
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