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A woman prays during mass celebrated by priests from the roof of the San Gabriele dell’Addolorata church in Rome on Sunday. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images A letter to Ireland from Italy: this is what we know about your future
  • Books
  • Francesca Melandri
  • March 30, 2020, 08:11

An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown

Anne Doyle reveals her dry humour, bird statues and celebrity-kissing history Anne Doyle reveals her dry humour, bird statues and celebrity-kissing history
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 30, 2020, 14:41

TV review: In Keys to My Life the former newsreader visited her former homes

10 hilarious Irish comedy videos to watch on YouTube 10 hilarious Irish comedy videos to watch on YouTube
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Darragh Geraghty
  • March 30, 2020, 05:00

Almost any stand-up set or ancient sketch is available at the click of a mouse

Coronavirus: Photographs reveal the world’s great cities as ghost towns Coronavirus: Photographs reveal the world’s great cities as ghost towns
  • Visual Art
  • Michael Kimmelman
  • March 30, 2020, 06:02

The places people flocked to – plazas, beaches, tourist Meccas – all now lie empty

TV guide: 25 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 25 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • March 30, 2020, 08:10

Jim Carrey returns as children’s entertainer Mr Pickles in Kidding while David Gray features in an Other Voices one-off special

The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’ The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’
  • Music
  • Alexis Petridis
  • March 30, 2020, 13:44

New York’s coolest band had faded. How did they come back with a brilliant new record?

Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watched Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watched
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 28, 2020, 10:43

Scraggly Hozier gave a preview of what everyone’s hair will look like post-shutdown

Irish writers on Covid-19: ‘We’re all having a shockin’ dose of the wombles’ Irish writers on Covid-19: ‘We’re all having a shockin’ dose of the wombles’
  • Books
  • March 28, 2020, 02:12

‘It’s unexpectedly romantic,’ says John Boyne. ’It shows us our true selves,’ says Patricia Scanlan

Virtual viewing: A guide to visiting museums online in the age of Covid-19 Virtual viewing: A guide to visiting museums online in the age of Covid-19
  • Culture
  • Gemma Tipton
  • March 28, 2020, 05:00

Many of the world’s great museums are now available on screen, but what exactly do you get for your click?

Liz Nugent: ‘People have accused me of being brave, but what is brave about surviving?’ Liz Nugent: ‘People have accused me of being brave, but what is brave about surviving?’
  • Books
  • Róisín Ingle
  • March 28, 2020, 06:00

‘I am not a disabled writer. I’m a writer who happens to be disabled’

Latest Film

Army of Shadows: Jean-Pierre Melville’s magnificent French Resistance classic is available on Mubi. Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Ferenc Legyel as Michael Curtiz in Curtiz, a film by Tamas Yvan Topolánszky recreating the drama behind the making of Casablanca. Michael Curtiz: The ‘pompous b*****d’ who shaped Casablanca
Pet lockdown The Movie Quiz: Who is self-isolating with Whiskey and Lulu?
  • Coronavirus: Has the drive-in movie finally found its moment?
  • Beyond Netflix: where to find Golden Age classic movies

Film Reviews

Mila Al Zahrani’s performance and the urgency of The Perfect Candidate’s issues elevate it from the ordinary. The Perfect Candidate

 
Clunky lines and obvious plot turns are aplenty in Uncorked Uncorked

 
Krista Kosonen in Dogs Don’t Wear Pants Dogs Don't Wear Pants

 
Disney’s latest (almost) live-action reboot has commendably cast two rescue dogs in the title roles. Lady and the Tramp

 

TV & Radio

Keys to My Life: Anne Doyle with presenter Brendan Courtney Anne Doyle reveals her dry humour, bird statues and celebrity-kissing history

TV review: In Keys to My Life the former newsreader visited her former homes

Kidding starring Jim Carrey returns to Sky Comedy on Tuesday TV guide: 25 of the best shows to watch this week
Soupy Norman 10 hilarious Irish comedy videos to watch on YouTube
  • Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watched
  • Some people need to wash out their mouths as well as their hands

Latest Books

A woman prays during mass celebrated by priests from the roof of the San Gabriele dell’Addolorata church in Rome on Sunday. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images A letter to Ireland from Italy: this is what we know about your future

An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown

I want a list of books that are guaranteed to distract and entertain me, that will put a smile back on my face, that might even make me laugh out loud. Photograph: Getty Images Laugh in the time of Corona: Favourite funny books
Eileán Ni Chuilleanáin. Photograph: Eric Luke Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin wins Irish Times Poetry Now award
  • New Irish Writing: March 2020’s winning story
  • Children’s books: Monsters, mermaids and animal detectives

Latest Music

The Strokes are back with a new album called The New Abnormal. The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’

New York’s coolest band had faded. How did they come back with a brilliant new record?

Anna Jordan: ‘I don’t really need to worry about the connection between what I do and who my father is. I got here through music college and hard work’ Anna Jordan: Directing her own musical destiny
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul invites you to briefly set your woes to one side. Photograph: Heaven’s Door Murder Most Foul: Bob Dylan’s strange, meandering, comforting 17-minute new song
  • Giving people a virtual musical break from reality
  • Dionne Warwick: ‘I was the major earning power. It was too much to bear for my husband’

Album Reviews

Margaret Glaspy: Devotion

 
Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud

 
Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams: Aporia

 
Robert Forster: Danger in the Past

 
Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia

 
Moaning: Uneasy Laughter

 

Book Reviews

The Butchers: masterful plot about pandemic and upheaval
Are You with Me?: How Kevin Boyle opened a path away from sectarianism
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: How rape is used as a weapon of war
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry: boundless empathy

Stage

Owen Roe winning Best Supporting Actor Award at last year’s awards in the NCH. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Coronavirus: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards ceremony cancelled

Irish Times managing director expresses hope event might be held at later date

Blindboy: one of the 50 writers taking part in Dear Ireland. Photograph: Alan Place Abbey Theatre moves online for ‘creative conversation’ about coronavirus
Siobhan Burke’s Irish dancing shoes. As the Riverdance 25th-anniversary tour approaches New York, a critic takes stock of her nearly lifelong relationship with the Irish dance extravaganza. Photograph: Liz Clayman/New York Times I was a teenage Riverdancer – and I may never get out
  • Sruth na Teanga review: Immersive, vivid and playfully persuasive
  • Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’

Art & Design

Coronavirus: Photographs reveal the world’s great cities as ghost towns

The places people flocked to – plazas, beaches, tourist Meccas – all now lie empty

Cecil Beaton and Stephen Tennant Young, glamorous socialites who indulged in every excess
Pandemic portraits: Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss plus Molly O’Cathain’s restaging. Photographs: DeAgostini/Getty and Molly O’Cathain Do these pictures look oddly familiar? How an Irish artist’s re-creations are going viral
  • Cleansweep: A magnum opus chronicling a contaminated landscape
  • How a brilliant woman's 400-year-old paintings speak to us today

Unthinkable

Socrates found that his philosophical way of life ‘gave him courage’, says Prof Paul O’Grady. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us in this time of crisis?

Unthinkable: Philosophers might not be on the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic but they have a role to play

The soul: If it’s not in here then where is it? Photograph: Getty Images Don’t give up on the search for your soul
Prof José Van Dijck of Utrecht University: ‘There is hardly any public space, or ‘public good’ sense, in the internet system’. Trust no one: The cynical logic of social media
  • Ireland has a strange relationship with the word ‘republican’
  • What’s so funny about philosophers?

Heritage

Firemen hosing down the ruins of Kilteragh, Sir Horace Plunkett’s house outside Dublin, which was burned down by forces opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty during the Irish Civil War, February 1923. Photograph: Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ‘Irish Mansions Mined and Burned’: 275 houses destroyed in four years

From the archive: The destruction of Irish country houses, or Big Houses, between 1919 and 1923 saw about 275 houses destroyed

‘Not every woman is a born mother, although Irishwomen, as a race, have the reputation for being so’, Barbara Dickinson wrote in 1944. Intelligence, will power and skill: Depicting homemaking in 1944
Tomás MacCurtain, who was later murdered by members of the RIC in 1920, was the Brigade Commander of the Irish Volunteers in Cork city and county in 1916. Covid-19 derails events recalling murdered lord mayor of Cork Tomás MacCurtain
  • Out of 697 Dublin mayors, why have only eight been women?
  • Underwater study reveals possible quay at Brú na Bóinne

Michael Viney's Another Life

Once a local badger chose to wrench a bunch of leaves and stems from a stand of flowering daffodils. Both badgers and humans waiting on security from plague

Greater industry involvement required if bovine TB to be eliminated by 2030 target

Ireland had an estimated 223,000 Irish hares in the winter of 2018/19. Picture: Michael Viney Counting hares under the spotlight
Fish in seagrass. Illustration: Michael Viney Sea change for the worse as alien seaweed unmakes the bed
  • The trouble with terrapins and two wild reptiles living in Ireland
  • Bogged down: Bleak outlook for the west’s blanket peatlands

Tuarascáil

Foirgneamh an Roinn Gnóthaí Baile i bPlaza de la Revolución i Habana, Cúba: maireann leaganacha den ghrianghraf íocónach fós cé go bhfuil Che Guevara sa chré le fada an lá. Scéal an ‘Guerrillero Heroico’

Maíodh tráth gur réabhlóidithe ba mhó a bhí á n-easpórtáil ag Cúba

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Tháinig Gaeilgeoirí ar champas Ollscoil Mhá Nuad, idir mhic léinn agus baill fhoirne, le chéile chun athinsint a dhéanamh ar úrscéal iomráiteach Uí Laoghaire, Séadna. Bhí fear ann fadó ...
  • Ní féidir áilleacht an dúlra a shéanadh
  • Faoi Ghlas ag Galair

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To celebrate La Roche-Posay’s Skin Health Month, The Irish Times readers gathered at The Dean Hotel in Dublin for a panel discussion with a host of skin, nutrition and beauty experts

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Ruth Gilligan: Her pacy and evocative fifth novel, The Butchers, interlinks the narratives of two families and one outsider. The Butchers: masterful plot about pandemic and upheaval
Kevin Boyle: He was prominent in the campaign against the fatwa imposed on Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses. Photograph: Colin McConnell/Toronto Star via Getty Images Are You with Me?: How Kevin Boyle opened a path away from sectarianism
Author and journalist Christina Lamb. Photograph: David Levenson/ Getty Images Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: How rape is used as a weapon of war
Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who’s been nominated this year, plus all our other coverage
 

Most Read in Culture

1 A woman prays during mass celebrated by priests from the roof of the San Gabriele dell’Addolorata church in Rome on Sunday. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images A letter to Ireland from Italy: this is what we know about your future
2 Soupy Norman 10 hilarious Irish comedy videos to watch on YouTube
3 Miriam O’Callaghan Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watched
4 Coronavirus: Photographs reveal the world’s great cities as ghost towns
5 Kidding starring Jim Carrey returns to Sky Comedy on Tuesday TV guide: 25 of the best shows to watch this week
6 I want a list of books that are guaranteed to distract and entertain me, that will put a smile back on my face, that might even make me laugh out loud. Photograph: Getty Images Laugh in the time of Corona: Favourite funny books
7 Kevin Barry. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Irish writers on Covid-19: ‘We’re all having a shockin’ dose of the wombles’
8 Socrates found that his philosophical way of life ‘gave him courage’, says Prof Paul O’Grady. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us in this time of crisis?
9 Smokin’: Robert Finster in Freud Freud is sexually obsessed with his mother? She’s one lucky woman
10 A Google Street View image of the British Museum Virtual viewing: A guide to visiting museums online in the age of Covid-19
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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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