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Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

From the epic to the intimate, 2019 was a year of outstanding Irish theatre

TV guide: 22 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 22 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • January 26, 2020, 06:00

New series of Top Gear and Ár gClub, Ireland’s Comedy Carnival, remembering the Holocaust, Nigel Farage profiled, and a debate about disappearing pubic hair

Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviews Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviews
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 25, 2020, 13:36

Performances praised in film about abused woman caught up in the Irish housing crisis

How the press reacted when jazz music came to Dublin How the press reacted when jazz music came to Dublin
  • Heritage
  • Una Mullally
  • January 26, 2020, 07:00

From the archive: ‘A new form of music introduced from Africa probably’

Motherwell: Deborah Orr’s artful and authentic parting words Motherwell: Deborah Orr’s artful and authentic parting words
  • Books
  • Sinead Gleeson
  • January 26, 2020, 06:00

Book review: The late journalist’s hugely accomplished debut feels as if there was much more to come

Australia’s First Nations poets map possible path of atonement Australia’s First Nations poets map possible path of atonement
  • Books
  • Felicity Plunkett
  • January 25, 2020, 18:00

‘The mainstream stories of who an Australian is can be quite damaging if you’re not part of that privilege’

Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’ Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

Time out after breaking her back led the art-pop band's singer to make a very different album

Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

In 10 years no movie has attracted such a buzz at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes

Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’ Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’
  • Books
  • Catherine Conroy
  • January 25, 2020, 06:00

'This awful grief that I had, it was like a springboard. It gave me this incredibly painful new perspective on what really mattered to me'

Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m a big mama rat that won’t let go’ Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m a big mama rat that won’t let go’
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

A collapsed music label and a four-year wait to release her new album have tested the musician’s mettle

Latest Film

Herself stars Clare Dunne, who is alo co-writer, and is directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Photograph: Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviews
Robert Pattinson stars as Ephraim Winslow and Willem Dafoe stars as Thomas Wake in The Lighthouse (2019) Photo: Eric Chakeen/A24 Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
Novel approach: Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton in The Personal History of David Copperfield Six of the best films to see in the cinema this weekend
  • The movie quiz: What mighty age is Olivia De Havilland?
  • Terry Jones obituary: Monty Python’s heart and soul who revolutionised British TV comedy

Film Reviews

The Grudge: redundant reboot of a remake of Ju-On: The Grudge The Grudge

 
Weathering With You: wacky mythology is offset with gorgeous hyperreal visuals Weathering with You

 
Mackenzie Davis in contemporary horror mode as Kate Mandell in The Turning The Turning

 
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce star The Man who Killed Don Quixote

 

TV & Radio

Motormouths: Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness on Top Gear, Sunday night on BBC2 TV guide: 22 of the best shows to watch this week

New series of Top Gear and Ár gClub, Ireland’s Comedy Carnival, remembering the Holocaust, Nigel Farage profiled, and a debate about disappearing pubic hair

Ryan Tubridy got more political than he meant to last week. Photograph: RTÉ A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist
The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow - official trailer 1:08 The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow - official trailer
  • The Goop Lab: One episode is about the vulva. I’ll probably watch that with my parents
  • Love Island: It’s deranged. What am I actually watching?

Latest Books

Melissa Lucashenko Australia’s First Nations poets map possible path of atonement

‘The mainstream stories of who an Australian is can be quite damaging if you’re not part of that privilege’

Prospect Cottage built in tarred timber and made famous by Derek Jarman Old favourites: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
Illustration: Kate Martin New Irish Writing: A Little Cloud by A Joseph Black
  • Local history: Reflections on Derry and Donegal’s turbulent past
  • Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’

Latest Music

Anxo Lorenzo, Jim Murray, Dónal O’Connor and Jack Talty The best traditional music gigs to go to this week

Tradfest Temple Bar, Galician gaita piper Anxo Lorenzo

Mabel, daughter of Neneh Cherry, is performing sold out shows in Dublin and Belfast This week’s best rock and pop gigs: From Mabel to Jonas Brothers
Cork trombonist Paul Dunlea tours with his international 4 Corners Project this week, playing at Arthurs, Dublin (Saturday 25), Maggie’s Farm, Co. Down (Monday 27), and Crane Lane, Cork (Tuesday 28).   War of Independence imagined: This week’s jazz highlights
  • Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m a big mama rat that won’t let go’
  • Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’

Album Reviews

Hot damn is it good to have the Pet Shop Boys back Pet Shop Boys: Hotspot

 
An album to admire, rather than enjoy Polica: When We Stay Alive

 
The Lasters are the final family on Earth, which is on the verge of extinction Fred Deakin: Fred Deakin Presents The Lasters

 
A glorious celebration of a heritage Steve Cooney: Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for solo guitar

 
Kiwi Jr.: Football Money

 
Varo: Varo

 

Book Reviews

Motherwell: Deborah Orr’s artful and authentic parting words
Orwell: A Man of Our Time – A sloppy, disorganised biography
Consider This: Chuck Palahniuk’s rules from Write Club
Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech – An important book about corporate giants

Stage

Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?

From the epic to the intimate, 2019 was a year of outstanding Irish theatre

Restoration, directed by Darren Thornton with Kate Stanley Brennan and John Cronin. Project Arts Centre, January 28th-February 1st The best play to see in Ireland this week
Halloween parade. Macnas, founded in 1986, pioneered anarchic, visual street performance in Ireland Irish Theatre Awards: Macnas to receive special tribute award
  • Ruth Negga: Playing Hamlet nearly killed me
  • Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence?

Art & Design

Louise Butler, Deception Island, Signal Arts Centre When nature is commodified: this week’s visual arts highlights

Work by Louise Butler, Padraic Barrett, Orla O’Byrne, Sheila Naughton, Miriam O’Connor

Detail: Cybil McCaddy with Daughter Lulu, 2018 by Enda Bowe. C-Type print, 127x101.6cm Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – Cybil McCaddy with Daughter Lulu
Principal architect at the Office of Public Works Ciarán O’Connor in front of the new Garda station on Kevin Street. The €28m building sets a new standard for Garda stations. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction
  • Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic
  • Illuminating perspective on rural life in contemporary Ireland

Unthinkable

Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome. ‘It is reasonable to hope in a particular rational ordering of things,’ says philosopher Patrick Masterson. Photograph: Getty Images/Science Photo Library Is there an answer to ‘the ultimate meaning’ of life?

Unthinkable: Philosopher Patrick Masterson believes there is a ‘rational order’ to the universe whether or not God exists

The aftermath of the drone strike ordered by US president Donald Trump which killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani. Photograph: Iraqi Prime Minister’s Press Office via The New York Times Rise of the killer robots: The future of war
By reading the news ‘we train our brain to skim, to surf, to digest very quickly and not go deep’, says Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli. Journalism has become ‘ridiculous’: The case for turning off the news
  • Why humans can survive without religion but not rituals
  • There’s no meaning of life. Now, happy Christmas!

Heritage

Ads in the newspaper in January 1919 featured everything from ‘exhibition jazz dances’ at a ballroom on Adelaide Road, to ‘jazz teas’. Photograph: iStock How the press reacted when jazz music came to Dublin

From the archive: ‘A new form of music introduced from Africa probably’

The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick, a jewelled breast star, sold for €32,343 – more than three times its estimated price The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick, a jewelled breast star, sold for €32,343 – more than three times its estimated price Sale of Garech Browne's Luggala contents raises over €500,000 at auction
A mole within Dublin Castle was able to identify all 37 men in a photograph of F Company which reported to the chief of police in Dublin Castle and was involved in intelligence. Photograph: Dara MacDonaill/The Irish Times War of Independence discovery reveals IRA spy network
  • No date for Moore Street 1916 commemorative centre
  • The long history of linen-making in Ireland

Michael Viney's Another Life

Dark Hedges of Stranocum, Co Antrim by Michael Viney Storm Brendan rattles the nature-depleted North

A new report shows no let-up in the loss of wildlife in Northern Ireland

Corncrake: important place in literature has romanticised the bird How do we choose which endangered species to save?
The shiny black backs that came curving along the waves behind me were those of bottlenose dolphins, out for their own kind of fun. Picture: Michael Viney On a frosty morning 40 years ago, I saw a group of dolphins playing tag
  • Michael Viney: Climate change an existential threat to civilisation, scientists say
  • Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Tuarascáil

’Ar mhí-ámharaí an tsaoil, bím deimhin ceart i bhfad níos minicí ná mar a bhíonn Paddy Power ag Baile na Lobhar agus na Leabhar.’ Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Fulaingt Fhada

Níl le déanamh ach an cnaipe a bhrú agus tiocfaidh an freagra chugat amach as an meaisín réamhdhéanta.

Tá an t-olltoghchán fógartha agus ní fada anois go mbeidh lá na vótála buailte linn. Grianghraf: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Gealltanais toghchánaíochta agus an mhéar fhada
Fórsaí cúltaca: Póilíní Cúnta i mbun cuardaithe i mBaile Átha Cliath. Grianghraf: Walshe/Getty Images Comóradh conspóideach Chonstáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann
  • Éagóir Dhomhaite
  • Gá le “samhlaíocht agus solúbthacht” chun polasaí nua oideachais a chur i gcrích

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Deborah Orr: Her journalism career was stellar and her time as a writer was just beginning. Motherwell: Deborah Orr’s artful and authentic parting words
George Orwell mural picture Southwold, Suffolk, England. Photograph: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Orwell: A Man of Our Time – A sloppy, disorganised biography
Chuck Palahniuk, American fiction writer and journalist born in Pasco, Washington and living in Portland, Oregon. Photograph: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Consider This: Chuck Palahniuk’s rules from Write Club
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
 
The Revolution Files Highlights from the Military Archives with reports from every county
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Ryan Tubridy got more political than he meant to last week. Photograph: RTÉ A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist
2 Corey Taylor of Slipknot performs at The 3Arena Dublin on Tuesday. Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns Corey Taylor: After 20 years in Slipknot we are all beat up
3 Motormouths: Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness on Top Gear, Sunday night on BBC2 TV guide: 22 of the best shows to watch this week
4 Art Simon and Paul Garfunkel: Bridge over Troubled Water was the best-selling LP for 1971, 1972 and 1973. Yet no student ever posed with it under their oxter. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Simon and Garfunkel for people who don’t like Simon and Garfunkel
5 Herself stars Clare Dunne, who is alo co-writer, and is directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Photograph: Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviews
6 Jews alight from a train in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on May 27th, 1944. Photograph: Yad Vashem Archives /AFP/ Getty Images Auschwitz 75 years on: The Holocaust’s toll for one Dublin family
7 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
8 Adam Driver at the red carpet event for ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’. Photograph: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON Adam Driver: ‘There’s a double standard for men and women’
9 Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?
10 Stranger Things, Murder Mystery, Bird Box and Unbelievable. Photographs: Netflix Netflix has revealed its most-watched content. You might be surprised
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Meath-born restauranteur on ditching work to see A Lazarus Soul and the allure of Rotterdam

Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 

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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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Vote 100 Celebrating a century since Irish women won the right to vote
 
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