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Madonna: ‘I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around’ Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Madonna at 60: a career of highlights and controversies
  • Music
  • August 16, 2018, 09:06

From her early identification as an LGBT ally to accusations of cultural appropriation

Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’ Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’
  • Stage
  • Emine Saner
  • August 16, 2018, 09:10

The comedian on her reconciliation with her father – and doing jokes about his ex-wives

High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • August 16, 2018, 05:00

US director says his heart lies with action movies like The Equalizer 2

Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • August 15, 2018, 11:15

Review: Sadness pervades this adaptation. What’s going on? Is there honey still for tea?

Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled
  • Books
  • Brian Boyd
  • August 16, 2018, 00:08

A rediscovered dictionary of historical slang highlights some bawdy delights of the past

Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • August 15, 2018, 09:57

After Watergate, podcast turns its attention to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair

What Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement means to Miriam O’Callaghan What Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement means to Miriam O’Callaghan
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • August 14, 2018, 22:35

RTÉ’s documentary about the 1968 protests is part history show, part personal journey

Kilkenny Arts Festival: Tribalism will make people believe fake stuff Kilkenny Arts Festival: Tribalism will make people believe fake stuff
  • Culture
  • Rosita Boland
  • August 15, 2018, 08:53

Evan Davis gave the annual Hubert Butler lecture at Kilkenny Arts Festival. Other highlights included a gaze-activated dress

Oh! What a peculiar film! Anti-war classic comes to west Cork Oh! What a peculiar film! Anti-war classic comes to west Cork
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • August 14, 2018, 06:00

David Attenborough’s son will visit Skibbereen for ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’ screening

‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work ‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
  • Stage
  • Michael Seaver
  • August 14, 2018, 05:00

Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival

Latest Film

Actor Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua. The Equalizer 2 marks their fourth collaboration High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded

US director says his heart lies with action movies like The Equalizer 2

John Mills and Richard Attenborough on set Oh! What a peculiar film! Anti-war classic comes to west Cork
By early 2020 Idris Elba will be 47. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire The next James Bond might be black, but he won’t be Idris Elba
  • A son explores the cinematic legacy of the father he never knew
  • Ewan McGregor: ‘I have been living a midlife crisis since my teens’
The Heiresses The Heiresses

 
Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) and Winnie the Pooh Christopher Robin

 
Denzel Washington as a former super soldier Robert McCall The Equalizer 2

 
Unfriended: Dark Web

 

Latest Music

Madonna: ‘I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around’ Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Madonna at 60: a career of highlights and controversies

From her early identification as an LGBT ally to accusations of cultural appropriation

Aretha Franklin’s most recent performance was at an Elton John Aids Foundation event in Manhattan in November 2017. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty After Beyoncé tribute, Stevie Wonder visits ailing Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul: Aretha Franklin at her most recent performance, in November 2017. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, is ‘gravely ill’, say friends
  • Fleadh Cheoil festival expected to draw 400,000 to Drogheda
  • New artists of the week: Paul Institute
Ane Brun: Live at Berwaldhallen

 
Elephant: 88

 
The Coral: Move Through The Dawn

 
Jake Shears: Jake Shears

 
Mac Miller: Swimming

 
Gulp: All Good Wishes

 

Latest Books

Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo in the 1957 film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images From Notre Dame to Haji Ali Dargah Mosque, a parade of holy places in fiction

Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings

Slang – new and old – has always been about sex, drink and being rude Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled
Marian Keyes: “There are brilliantly funny women writing today, but they are not celebrated as they should be. This prize should change that.” Marian Keyes to judge prize for comic women writers
  • Lapis and Gold, Exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an
  • The last stop before salvation
Juggling With Turnips review: funny and perfectly constructed stories
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso: life, work and family in splintered detail
How Are You Going to Save Yourself by JM Holmes: sharp, vibrant tales
Children and the Great Hunger: old and new perspectives on the Famine

TV & Radio

White House scandal: Monica Lewinsky with President Bill Clinton in the 1990s Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal

After Watergate, podcast turns its attention to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair

Miriam O’Callaghan journeys to Derry, Alabama and Washington What Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement means to Miriam O’Callaghan
The new-look neon Big Brother eye. Photograph: Channel 5/PA Wire 10 of the best TV shows to watch this week
  • Can you be racist against white people?
  • Archive 81 is a horror ensemble notable for lack of conformity

Stage

Camilla Cleese: “I don’t look like my dad,” she says. “Thank f***ing God.” Photograph: Melissa Lyttle/Washington Post Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’

The comedian on her reconciliation with her father – and doing jokes about his ex-wives

Theatre Lovett’s ‘Frnknstn’ by Michael West, at the Abbey Theatre from August 17th to September 1st. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh So you think you know the story of Frankenstein?
Irish Modern Dance Theatre: Oona Doherty and Valda Setterfield rehearse Inventions. Photograph: Ewa Figaszewska The Irish Modern Dance Theatre will perform ‘Inventions’ at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Photograph: Ewa Figaszewska ‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxiety
  • Skull two pints in Connemara: this week’s theatre highlights

Art & Design

From Lay Her Down Upon Her Back, Róisín White, The Library Project It’s all too much – and too little – in this world of bounty

Diana Copperwhite and Aileen Murphy negotiate excess and absence; Róisín White exposes the Victorian ‘rest cure’

‘Rail’, linen casement weave material, 1958, Anni Albers Art in Focus: ‘Rail’ by Anni Albers
Debra Bowden, The High Road at the Berkeley Gallery in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny Japanese gardens and model villages: the week’s visual arts highlights
  • An Irish sculptor comes to Eileen Gray's classic modernist house
  • Looking at the Irish Border through hard and soft lenses

Unthinkable

Irish Yong Philosopher Award winner Luke Rickard (16) with President Michael D. Higgins. Photograph: UCD Colleges of Social Sciences and Law Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year

Unthinkable: The Irish Young Philosopher Awards hopes to become as big as the Young Scientist exhibition

‘There is a paradox in war: Why do individuals sacrifice themselves for their groups?’ Photgraph: Reuters/Joe Raedle Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare
Rhetorical rivals Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. Photographs: Getty Images Was Ireland’s most prominent philosopher ‘too womanly’?
  • How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?
  • Would lowering voting age justify being tougher on under 18s?

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 rug being moved at the furniture and fine art auction at Powerstown House, Clonee, Co Meath in 1996. Photograph: Paddy Whelan The Times We Lived In: The £700 ‘sleeper’ rug

Published: July 8th, 1996. Photograph: Paddy Whelan

The Leinster Regiment accommodated in tents at Birr Barracks First World War training trenches at Birr to be excavated this week
Outline of the Ely O’Carroll ‘Black Castle’ exposed on the grass outside Birr Castle. Photograph: Brian Kennedy Heatwave reveals site of Birr Castle’s original ‘Black Castle’
  • The Times We Lived In: Faithful follow the Corpus Christi procession
  • Higgins praises Conradh na Gaeilge’s role in independence

Treibh

Éamonn Fitzmaurice. grianghraf: inpho/james crombie Gráin agus grá

Is mór an náire an cáineadh nimhneach a dhéantar ar bhainisteoirí sa CLG

Joe Canning de chuid na Gaillimhe. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Cíocras, caithréim, bua agus briseadh
Ag súgradh san uisce. grianghraf: peter andrews/reuters An loch faoin ghréin; an loch faoi shuaimhneas
  • Machnamh agus mótarbhealach; Autobahn agus Imram
  • Tonn teasa

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Camp Freddo: ‘We got to lose ourselves in the simple pleasure of doing stuff together’ Camp Freddo: ‘We got to lose ourselves in the simple pleasure of doing stuff together’

A day of outdoor activity at Wicklow’s Camp Freddo was a fantastic bonding exercise for the McKenna family

Zipping along: “We came out the other side with a great sense of achievement” Zipping along: “We came out the other side with a great sense of achievement”

To celebrate families in the outdoors this summer we sent a family zip-lining in Kilruddery

Most Read in Culture

1 Madonna: ‘I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around’ Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Madonna at 60: a career of highlights and controversies
2 Camilla Cleese: “I don’t look like my dad,” she says. “Thank f***ing God.” Photograph: Melissa Lyttle/Washington Post Camilla Cleese on her dad, John: ‘He’s not my favourite Python!’
3 Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) and Winnie the Pooh Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children
4 White House scandal: Monica Lewinsky with President Bill Clinton in the 1990s Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: thrilling hit podcast rips into scandal
5 Friends: stuck in second gear forever and ever and ... Donald Clarke: If Netflix has changed TV, why is ‘Friends’ No 1?
6 Slang – new and old – has always been about sex, drink and being rude Another word for drunk? Try ramsquaddled
7 By early 2020 Idris Elba will be 47. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire The next James Bond might be black, but he won’t be Idris Elba
8 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
9 Channel 10 nightly weather forecast and the invisible ‘Green Line’ and invisible Palestinian cities The politics of weather maps in Israel and Northern Ireland
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The cast during rehearsals of Paul Howard’s ‘Copper Face Jacks’ in the Olympia Treatre, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Copper Face Jacks: The Musical: Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’
London children: we played the same games and watched the same TV programmes and listened to the same pop songs Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal
'Shy but wild': Dolores O’Riordan in 2007. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The young Dolores O’Riordan: ‘Shy and wild, then that voice would explode’

On My Culture Radar

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The ‘Tank Girl’ and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ star on her adoration of Hannah Gadsby, Jean-Michel Basquiat and John Coltrane, and why ‘Cheers’ still does it for her

Paul Lynch: serious fiction is a form of knowledge. The writer seeks to understand the truths that define the human condition. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/ Getty Images
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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

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, his mother, Wendy O'Connor and sister Kim Cobain pictured this morning with Kurt's Dodge Dart car at the Newbridge Museum of Style Icons where the Cobain family opened an exhibition 'Growing Up Kurt Cobain'. The exhibition runs until 30th September 2018. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Gallery: Kurt Cobain exhibition in Newbridge
HETTY LAWLOR: Overall winner, Young Mayo artist Hetty Lawlor - a 17-year old student from Kilmeena, near Westport and a pupil at the local Sacred Heart School - with her picture entitled 'Grainne', winner of the 64th Texaco Children's Art competition held at the RHA Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Texaco Children's Art Competition
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