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Album of the Week - Bon Iver's 22, A Million: a kaleidoscope of sonic strokes

Album Reviews
Jim Carroll
September 29, 2016

First Monday in May review: a total mess of Met balls and celebrity porn, dahling

First Monday in May review: a total mess of Met balls and celebrity porn, dahling

Film
Tara Brady
September 29, 2016

Andrew Ross, usually a disciplined documentarian, delivers a maddeningly unfocused, often inane look at the upper echelons of New York fashion

Eva Green: ‘It’s great to go bonkers. You are not able to do that in real life’

Eva Green: ‘It’s great to go bonkers. You are not able to do that in real life’

Film
Donald Clarke
September 28, 2016

The Penny Dreadful star takes a break from psychic meltdowns as the eponymous lead in Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Five wishes for Irish children’s theatre

Five wishes for Irish children’s theatre

Stage
Sara Keating
September 29, 2016

Leading lights in a vital but underappreciated sector wave an imaginary wand

Three Irish authors on £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Three Irish authors on £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Books
Martin Doyle
September 28, 2016

Bookmarks: Books are my Bag; An Evening for Book Lovers; Echoland is Dublin: One City One Book choice; IMRAM Irish language literature festival

Now that the end is nigh, it’s finally time to review Donald Trump

Now that the end is nigh, it’s finally time to review Donald Trump

TV, Radio, Web
Patrick Freyne
September 28, 2016

The final season of ‘America’ began on Monday night, and the sense of apocalyptic dread was palpable right from the off

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen review: Darkness on the edge of genius

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen review: Darkness on the edge of genius

Books
Roddy Doyle
September 27, 2016

Springsteen is one of the great short story writers, says Roddy Doyle. At his wildest he is Damon Runyon; at his very best he’s Raymond Carver

Why Ireland won’t ‘ban’ Louis Theroux’s Scientology film

Why Ireland won’t ‘ban’ Louis Theroux’s Scientology film

Film
Donald Clarke
September 27, 2016

A speculative media story has suggested a new documentary ‘might’ be banned under Ireland’s blasphemy laws. It won’t

Womansplaining: books that every man should read

Womansplaining: books that every man should read

Books
Martin Doyle
September 27, 2016

Leading writers and thinkers have put together a recommended reading list of fiction and non-fiction for men who want to understand women better

Strategy to create broader cultural vision for Dublin

Strategy to create broader cultural vision for Dublin

Culture
Hugh Linehan
September 27, 2016

Dublin City Council allocates €1m this year from ‘very constrained economic situation’

Latest Film

Glamour puss: Anna Wintour in First Monday in May

First Monday in May review: a total mess of Met balls and celebrity porn, dahling

Film
Tara Brady
September 29, 2016

Latest Music

Songs of the week: Metallica, Cherry Glazerr, The Weeknd and NoLove

Music
Eoin Butler
September 29, 2016

Latest Books

Louise Phillips: I write because I love it. Words coming together, bringing fictional characters to life, even the dubious ones

Louise Phillips and Emily Hourican: How and why do we write

Books
September 29, 2016

Streets Like These: Lucy Caldwell on Van Morrison’s influence

TV & Radio

O say can you see: Donald Trump´ during the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on September 26th, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

Now that the end is nigh, it’s finally time to review Donald Trump

TV, Radio, Web
Patrick Freyne
September 28, 2016

Screenwriter

The Young Offenders goes down a storm at Fantastic Fest

Donald Clarke

The good burghers of Austin shake off the accents and declare themselves amused by the Cork comedy

France picks Paul Verhoeven’s Elle as its Oscar submission

Donald Clarke

The Isabelle Huppert vehicle was a hit at Cannes, but it has ruffled a few feathers elsewhere

On The Record

OTR column – following the money in clubland

Jim Carroll

Between Fabric in London and Pacha in Ibiza, clubland is once again in one of its periodic states of flux

Wearing their art on the sleeve

Jim Carroll

Banter joins Fantasy 12 exhibition for a discussion about record sleeve artwork

Film Reviews

Glamour puss: Anna Wintour in First Monday in May

The First Monday in May

Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers as MIchelle and Barack in Southside With You

Southside With You

Dare to be Wild

Sinister patroller: Glenn Close as Dr Caroline Caldwell

The Girl With All the Gifts

Stage

Theatre Lovett’s The Feast of Bones. “Production values and costs shouldn’t decrease in line with your audiences’ height.”

Five wishes for Irish children’s theatre

Stage
Sara Keating
September 29, 2016

Leading lights in a vital but underappreciated sector wave an imaginary wand

Albums

Bon Iver: 22, Million

Eoin Dillon: Pondelorum

Regina Spektor: Remember us to Life

Warpaint: Heads Up

Passenger: Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea

Bruce Springsteen: Chapter and Verse

Unthinkable

“The animals are typically killed at a young age. Is this animal-friendly? I don’t think so.” Photograph: iStock

Is there any such thing as an ethical steak?

Culture
Joe Humphreys
September 25, 2016

Unthinkable: The rights of animals cannot be dismissed, argues philosopher Tatjana Višak

Michael Viney's Another Life

Direction home: some seabirds use smell to guide them. Illustration: Michael Viney

Another Life: How a ‘smell’ can transform the sea

Maps for seabirds, rain for grass and some shade for Earth: the many gifts of DMS

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks

Commonage, by Culturstruction: an inclusive approact to design. Photograph courtesy of Royal Hibernian Academy

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2012 – Commonage, by Culturstruction

September 24, 2016

The art and architecture project gave the people of Callan, in Co Kilkenny, new perspectives on their locality

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It’s a leabhar, Jim, but not as we know it.

Treibh
Pól Ó Muirí
September 26, 2016, 07:16

Club Leabhar Ghaelchultúr on Facebook Live

Seán Ó Ríordáin, file

Lá na dteangacha – lón machnaimh don aigne

Treibh
Cathal de Paor
September 26, 2016, 07:00

Tá a scéal féin ag gach ceann de na teangacha a labhraítear san Eoraip

Joni Mitchell. grianghraf: jack robinson/getty images

Tine Chnámh na Leabhar

Treibh
Alan Titley
September 26, 2016, 06:33

Tá leabharlanna á ndúnadh i gceann de na contaetha is fairsinge cáil litríochta sa tír

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Ní barr an tsléibhe a bhain muid amach

Treibh
Pól Ó Muirí
September 26, 2016, 06:20

‘Éad an tsléibhe’ ar an duine atá thíos ag bun an chnoic

Leathanach ar líne le tiontú ag Club Leabhar Ghaelchultúr

Treibh
September 26, 2016, 06:15

grianghraf: eric luke/the irish times

Tá ceacht le foghlaim againn ón chéachta

Treibh
Cathal de Paor
September 19, 2016, 06:30

An bhfuil sé in am an céachta a chur ar leataoibh agus tosnú ar shíol a chur?

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Bothán an aoire

Treibh
Alan Titley
September 19, 2016, 06:15

Bhí Tom Kettle agus a chuideachta saonta faoina raibh ar siúl sa Chogadh Mhór

Drámaí na teanga le plé ag Éigse Loch Lao

Treibh
September 19, 2016, 06:00

Jean-Claude Juncker. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Aitheasc in uiscí airgid an Aontais

Treibh
Cathal de Paor
September 12, 2016, 06:15

Is meabhrú é an logainmníocht seo ar ghné eile dár gcultúr Ceilteach

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Life’s Work: Arabella Bishop, head of Sotheby’s Ireland

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 3, 2016, 00:00

‘You never know what the next telephone call or meeting might bring’

Henry Street 1916 by Liam O’Herlihy, on show at the Water Colour Society exhibition at the Concourse Gallery in Dún Laoghaire County Hall

Special prize will be awarded for work on theme of Easter Rising

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 24, 2016, 06:00

Anniversary watercolour show to feature works by more than 120 artists

Thérèse Gorry, 1949-2016

Death of Thérèse Gorry, of Gorry Gallery

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 24, 2016, 06:00

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Nazi relics in demand at Eclectic Collector auction

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 24, 2016, 06:00

A Man Doing Accounts, by Jack B Yeats, for auction at Adam’s (€200,000-€300,000)

Yeats ‘accountant’ painting changes hands in boom and bust

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 24, 2016, 06:00

Derek Quinlan bought Yeats in the boom while building his property empire; it was sold by Nama, and now it’s for sale again

Fine Gael deputy leader and Senator Dr James Reilly: in 2001, he and his wife Dorothy bought Loughton House, a 13-bedroom Georgian mansion on 82 acres outside the village of Moneygall, Co Offaly

The James Reilly auction: everything you need to know about the biggest sale of the year

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 24, 2016, 06:00

With 2,700 lots, the sale of the contents of Loughton House will run for four days

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Auctions, fairs and valuations

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 24, 2016, 00:00

A Patrick Scott oil on canvas makes €2,300; lots of rare books at Fonsie Mealy’s; the IADA annual fair

‘Genius of Germany’ course covers diverse topics such as German Baroque architecture and Rococo interiors

Autumn art courses and lectures in Cork and Dublin

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 17, 2016, 00:00

Fine and decorative arts diploma run over two days a week

Diamonds from John Farrington jewellers of Drury Street, Dublin, who is exhibiting at the Irish antique dealers’ fair

Discover something new at Dublin antiques fair

Fine Art & Antiques
Michael Parsons
September 17, 2016, 00:00

Antiques dealers’ fair will combine contemporary design history with the best of Irish antiques

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Restoration of historic Boland’s Mill buildings begins

Heritage
Olivia Kelly
September 28, 2016, 01:00

Houses, offices and apartments to be built in €150m scheme due for completion in 2018

Stuart Cole of James Adam and Sons at the GPO Witness History museum with the Patrick Pearse letter of surrender. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Patrick Pearse surrender letter goes on public display

Heritage
Ronan McGreevy
September 28, 2016, 01:00

Letter will be on exhibit until it is sold in December at an estimated price of €1.5m

Railway Preservation Society of Ireland volunteer Jon Richardson on the Emerald Isle Express. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Rail passengers depart on €5,000 luxury rail tour

Heritage
Ciarán D'Arcy
September 26, 2016, 15:40

Emerald Isle Express ‘rail cruise’ to show US, British and French tourists coastal sights

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Why do Irish institutions still call themselves ‘royal’?

Heritage
Marion McEnroy-Higgins
September 26, 2016, 06:00

More than 90 years after independence, academies and colleges based in Ireland retain obsolete royal identities

Anti-fascist protesters, some of them carrying missiles, run from a barricade they have erected near Aldgate on October 4th, 1936. The police are charging on the far side of the barricade, which has been reinforced with paving stones. Photograph: Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Battle of Cable Street: when the Irish helped beat back the fascists

Heritage
Joe O'Shea
September 24, 2016, 06:00

A survivor of the legendary London street battle recalls a dramatic day in the East End

Mea culpa: Why I love Latin

Heritage
Anthea McTeirnan
September 21, 2016, 06:00

Latin is going out of fashion in Irish classrooms. And that is sad

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Arctic shipwreck discovery sheds light on explorers' last moments

Heritage
Ed O'Loughlin
September 20, 2016, 01:01

Clue to exploration’s fate in message written by one Irishman and found by another

Ireland – The Autobiography: John Bowman at the National Archives of Ireland. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

John Bowman: 10 tales of modern Ireland

Heritage
John Bowman
September 17, 2016, 06:00

The historian and broadcaster’s new ‘autobiography of Ireland’ uses letters, diaries and other ‘authentic’ documents to tell new stories of Irish life

Number 61 Thomas street, one of Dublin’s oldest buildings, due to be demolished soon. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Heather Humphreys urged to save 400-year-old buildings

Heritage
Olivia Kelly
September 16, 2016, 01:00

Dublin Civic Trust calls for preservation of two of city’s oldest buildings on Thomas Street

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The discipline of coffee farming on the Kenco programme brought Carla Oviedo on a completely different path to success

Feeding the imagination: Brother Hubbard’s Dublin journey

Feeding the imagination: Brother Hubbard’s Dublin journey

As part of a series with Audi celebrating people living extraordinary lives we meet restaurateur Garrett Fitzgerald of Brother Hubbard

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One of the big underlying stories of Ireland in the past 20 years is the strange death of Anglophobia. Illustration: Mark Harwood/Getty/ITPM

Neighbours: Ireland and Britain A series on our relationship with Britain

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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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The two-decade long walk to Easter 1916

The two-decade long walk to Easter 1916

The latest book from Lorcan Collins casts emotion aside and reveals in hard, cold facts the human cost of Easter 1916

A plaque commemorating the 1916 leaders who were executed in Kilmainham Gaol. Photograph: Frank Miller

1916 Signatories They led the 1916 Rising in the full expectation they would not succeed. But who were they?

Children and the Revolution 1916: A guide for children, teenagers and teachers

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Lucy Caldwell: “not a writer who cultivates bleakness for its own sake,” wrote Colin Barrett in his Irish Times review of Multitudes, “and the tone that ultimately prevails throughout Multitudes is one of tentative defiance, of a kind of celebratory bittersweetness and a refusal to finally bow to adversity”

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