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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino’s new film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a vast improvement on the exhausting The Hateful Eight Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood: There’ll be fighting in the aisles
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 22, 2019, 09:36

Cannes 2019: Quentin Tarantino reviewed, early Oscar buzz, plus Isabelle Huppert in Frankie

Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • May 22, 2019, 05:00

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

Classical music: What to see at this summer’s festivals Classical music: What to see at this summer’s festivals
  • Music
  • Michael Dervan
  • May 22, 2019, 05:00

Master classes, talks, public interviews and recitals in Cork, Kilkenny and Galway

Celestial Bodies author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize Celestial Bodies author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • May 21, 2019, 23:43

Omani becomes first Arabic author to win award and shares £50,000 prize with translator Marilyn Booth

Morrissey: California Son review – Covers album for fans only, and Moz himself Morrissey: California Son review – Covers album for fans only, and Moz himself
  • Music
  • Lauren Murphy
  • May 22, 2019, 07:00

These 1960s and 1970s tunes oscillate wildly between schmaltz and soaring balladry

Tarantino’s plea over Cannes spoilers riles the critics Tarantino’s plea over Cannes spoilers riles the critics
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 21, 2019, 21:28

Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood shows off a fascination with period detail and gift for cinematic texture

The Pale: Merciful Hour – Dublin band still have a few tricks up their sleeves The Pale: Merciful Hour – Dublin band still have a few tricks up their sleeves
  • Music
  • Louise Bruton
  • May 22, 2019, 05:00

Their 13th studio album is a little maudlin, but the band are looking up at the stars

‘Game of Thrones flatlined when it could have soared.’ Readers react to final episode ‘Game of Thrones flatlined when it could have soared.’ Readers react to final episode
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • May 21, 2019, 12:59

‘I never before set my alarm for 2am to watch a TV programme, and I never will again’

Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss are things that don’t ever go away’ Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss are things that don’t ever go away’
  • Film
  • Hadley Freeman
  • May 21, 2019, 14:45

The John Wick star is terrific as a man still mourning the death of his wife - in fact for the past two decades he has been seen as a melancholic loner

Mariah Carey at 3Arena Dublin: Tickets, doors, setlist Mariah Carey at 3Arena Dublin: Tickets, doors, setlist
  • Music
  • May 21, 2019, 19:46

Are there tickets for sale, what time is she on stage, what songs will she sing and more

Latest Film

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino’s new film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a vast improvement on the exhausting The Hateful Eight Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood: There’ll be fighting in the aisles
Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, film director Quentin Tarantino and Margot Robbie arrive for the screening of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images Tarantino’s plea over Cannes spoilers riles the critics
Keanu Reeves: ‘We’re only getting to tell these stories because of the audience.’ Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss are things that don’t ever go away’
  • Johnny Depp accuses Amber Heard of having ‘painted-on bruises’ in lawsuit
  • Cannes 2019: Banderas kills Banderas, Tarantino makes a spoiler plea, Maradona does a no-show

Film Reviews

Derren Nesbitt and Jordan Stephensin Tucked, directed by Jamie Patterson Tucked

 
Carmiña Martínez in Birds of Passage Birds of Passage

 
The Paw Patrol Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups

 
Unauthorised raves: Lorn Macdonald as the madcap Spanner in Beats Beats

 

TV & Radio

Dany, who wanted the throne too much, and Jon, who wanted it not at all The problem with Game of Thrones is it almost became bigger than life

Like The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or the King James Bible, its narrative was so rich you could lose yourself in it

Fans watch HBO’s Game of Thrones series finale at a viewing party at Brennan’s bar in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck / AFP ‘Game of Thrones flatlined when it could have soared.’ Readers react to final episode
A fans reacts as she watches HBO’s Game of Thrones series finale at a viewing party at Brennan’s bar in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck/Beck/AFP/Getty Images Game of Thrones is over. How was it for you?
  • Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending?
  • Game of Thrones: Rogue water bottle spotted in series finale

Latest Music

Umbrellas, alcohol, garden furniture, selfie sticks, flares, glasses or cans will not be permitted at the event. Spice Girls €41m concert set to be biggest ever show in Croke Park

Limited number of tickets available for previously sold out show

Eurovision 2019: Sarah McTernan performs 22 for Ireland in Israel last Thursday. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Irlande, nul points: Full Eurovision results show Irish entry came last
Mariah Carey: the first time the Grammy-winning singer brings a tour to Ireland. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Mariah Carey at 3Arena Dublin: Tickets, doors, setlist
  • Eurovision: Israeli minister criticises shows of Palestinian solidarity
  • ‘Like two Abercrombie models at the Wesley disco’: The best and worst of Eurovision 2019

Album Reviews

Morrissey: California Son

 
The Pale: Merciful Hour

 
Flying Lotus: Flamagra

 
The National: I Am Easy to Find

 
Joan as Police Woman: Joanthology

 
Colm Mac Con Iomaire: The River Holds Its Breath: Tost ar an Abhainn

 

Latest Books

Peter Money, right, in Dublin back in the day ‘Dublin in the summer of ’84 was a farm with a fever’

US writer Peter Money reminisces about his stay in Dublin that inspired his new novel

Jokha Alharthi, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images Celestial Bodies author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize
Bill Gates with his summer reading recommendations Bill Gates picks his summer reads for 2019
  • Rathbones Folio prize: Raymond Antrobus becomes first poet to win award
  • Alan Titley: creative expression sourced in his own ethical code

Book Reviews

Live While You Can by Fr Tony Coote: eloquent and painfully insightful
The Last Leonardo review: Making an argument for value of art
Saltwater review: A coming-of-age novel and a fluid and crisp love note to a mother
Once More We Saw Stars review: painfully intimate truths of grief laid bare

Stage

Director Caitríona McLaughlin and writer Dylan Coburn Gray: ‘I’m always struck by how many people say the city comes through in the play,’ says Coburn Gray. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

Baoite: Eoin Ó Dubhghaill and Diarmuid De Faoite in Darach Mac Con Iomaire’s play Baoite review: Boring deep into the bedrock of a bitterly divided family
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas Danst Rosas. Photograph: Anne Van Aerschot Dublin Dance Festival 2019: stunningly artistic and utterly uplifting
  • Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July
  • Theatre workers write to Minister again, frustrated by slow Abbey progress

Art & Design

Detail from Lamont Cranston (2018) by Larry Poons Larry Poons and John Gibbons: An unusual pairing that works

The master of American modern painting and sculptor have little in common, except spirit

Painter James Morton who is 100 years old today. Painter James Morton still flying high at 100
Treecurtin by David Crone. Courtesy of the artist Art in Focus: Treecurtin by David Crone
  • Burrowing into your brain: This week’s visual art highlights
  • The male gaze filtered through a young woman's eyes

Unthinkable

Iris Murdoch: ‘It’s been easy to dismiss Murdoch as a philosopher because she was such a brilliant novelist.’ Photograph: Getty Why the world needs Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of ‘unselfing’

Centenary of author’s birth in Dublin is being used as an occasion to reclaim her moral vision

Siri Hustvedt: Philosopher or novelist? Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Can a novel also be a work of philosophy?
Donald Trump, a winner at the ballot box, but ‘the Stoics argued one cannot take pride in one’s life unless it is a virtuous life’. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Why be good when it seems like nasty guys finish first?
  • Do male and female brains differ? A philosophical response
  • Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

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 ‘back lane of no importance’ in Dublin that excelled in the 1970s

The Times We Lived In: Published Thursday, September 9th, 1971 

Panti Bliss in Thisispopbaby’s Riot globetrotting cabaret show. Photograph: Ian Douglas Rioting in Dublin theatres is nothing new
Siobhán Hegarty: Visitors to Moore Street are getting robbed, they are getting abused. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy ‘Anything is better than what’s here’ - traders react to latest plan for Moore Street
  • The stinking mud heaps that plagued Dublin in the 1870s
  • The second World War ‘Éire’ sign rescued from a Dublin cliffside

Tuarascáil

An Coimisinéir Teanga Rónán Ó Domhnaill. Grianghraf: Seán Ó Mainnín Coiste chun tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga a phlé

Tiocfaidh Rónán Ó Domhnaill os comhair Chomhchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus na nOileán

Is ea, táimid an-tugtha don bhriathar. Agus ní haon díobháil é sin. Grianghraf: iStockphoto/Getty Briathar agus gníomh
‘N’fheadar fútsa, ach is aoibhinn liomsa aimsir toghcháin.’ Griangraf: Eric Luke Na cuaillí feistithe
  • ‘Erasmus na Gaeilge’ fógartha ag Seán Kyne
  • Cad iad na ‘taboos’ seo nach bhfuil daoine ag caint fúthu?

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Chernobyl: more than a historical drama, it's a cautionary tale for our times Chernobyl: more than a historical drama, it's a cautionary tale for our times

On the 30th anniversary of the tragedy Sky Atlantic presents a five-part miniseries that unlocks the story behind the worst nuclear disaster in hist

Game of Thrones: The epic fantasy’s final season News, reviews, recaps and interviews as the series comes to an end
 
Cannes film festival Donald Clarke brings you the best from Promenade de la Croisette
 

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2 Keanu Reeves: ‘We’re only getting to tell these stories because of the audience.’ Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss are things that don’t ever go away’
3 Jokha Alharthi, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images Celestial Bodies author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize
4 Dany, who wanted the throne too much, and Jon, who wanted it not at all The problem with Game of Thrones is it almost became bigger than life
5 Jacob Rees-Mogg: the MP is often referred to as the honourable member for the 18th century, ‘a nod to those funny clothes he wears, along with pretending not to know’ any pop songs. Photograph: Colin McPherson/Corbis/Getty ‘Absolutely abysmal’: Critics rip apart Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new book
6 Umbrellas, alcohol, garden furniture, selfie sticks, flares, glasses or cans will not be permitted at the event. Spice Girls €41m concert set to be biggest ever show in Croke Park
7 Daenerys congratulates her unruly Dothraki cavalry and her forever ruly Unsullied infantry Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending?
8 Director Caitríona McLaughlin and writer Dylan Coburn Gray: ‘I’m always struck by how many people say the city comes through in the play,’ says Coburn Gray. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove
9 Will Smith in Aladdin: ‘Everything is under such critical scrutiny,’ the actor says. ‘I came up in an era where there was no internet. It’s a new thing that I’m trying to get a handle on’ ‘I’ll never sleep again and it’s all Will Smith’s fault’: Guy Ritchie and the Aladdin fallout
10 Fans watch HBO’s Game of Thrones series finale at a viewing party at Brennan’s bar in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck / AFP ‘Game of Thrones flatlined when it could have soared.’ Readers react to final episode
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