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Five TV shows you need to watch this week
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  • Kevin Courtney

John Creedon is on a river run, whilte Top of the Lake makes the move to Australia

David Sedaris: ‘Something horrible has happened to you? That’s not enough’ David Sedaris: ‘Something horrible has happened to you? That’s not enough’
  • Books
  • Caroline O'Donoghue

Interviewing David Sedaris isn’t just seeing how the sausage gets made: you’re left with the curious sensation that you are the sausage

A bloodless coup: The clean fight in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk A bloodless coup: The clean fight in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke

The auteur’s war film is stunning, but its heroic approach reflects an industry still uncomfortable with the bloody reality of the second World War

‘Having depression doesn’t make you immune to happiness’ ‘Having depression doesn’t make you immune to happiness’
  • Books
  • Arminta Wallace

Matt Haig on life after depression, negative reviews and his new book ‘How to Stop Time’

Art by text message, and other brilliant ideas Art by text message, and other brilliant ideas
  • Art & Design
  • Gemma Tipton

Text a word to SFMoma and the museum will reply with a work of art

Gloves come off as Michael O’Leary and Joe Duffy slug it out over seats Gloves come off as Michael O’Leary and Joe Duffy slug it out over seats
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney

Radio review: Ryanair boss hogs the airwaves but meets his match in Sean O’Rourke

How an Armagh man with four wives had a Sydney suburb named in his honour How an Armagh man with four wives had a Sydney suburb named in his honour
  • Abroad
  • Arminta Wallace

Hugh Kelly had been transported to New South Wales in 1806 for stealing clothes from an outhouse

Lana Del Rey brings her Hollywood to our Harcourt Street on Lust for Life Lana Del Rey brings her Hollywood to our Harcourt Street on Lust for Life
  • Music
  • Louise Bruton

Members of the Lana del Cult rejoice: your dark queen is back among you

U2 at Croke Park: Everything you need to know U2 at Croke Park: Everything you need to know
  • Music
  • Louise Bruton

Set times, security and set lists for the Joshua Tree reboot

The Water Orchard review: How to avoid being reduced to an emoticon The Water Orchard review: How to avoid being reduced to an emoticon
  • Stage
  • Helen Meany

Collapsing Horse’s new show pits high tech against low as they tread the water boards

Latest Film

John Heard, known for his starring role in ‘Home Alone’ has died in California. Photograph: Paul Buck/EPA ‘Home Alone’ actor John Heard dies aged 72

Star known for playing father in hit film series nominated for Emmy over ‘Sopranos’ role

Director Christoper Nolan on the set of Dunkirk with Kenneth Brannagh A bloodless coup: The clean fight in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
Soundtrack to sex, or is it the other way round? Donald Clarke’s Movie Quiz: songs, sex scenes and Spielberg
  • Zoe Kazan: ‘Look at the numbers. It’s getting worse for women’
  • Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
Matthew Heineman’s ‘City of Ghosts’: has the makings of a gripping story, but never quite comes together. City of Ghosts

 
“You’re only going down five metres.” That’s not what it says in the title... 47 Metres Down

 
Kenneth Branagh’s commander, full of frustration that’s almost an antidote to his cocksure Henry V Dunkirk

 
Mud-slinging: Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) in Cars 3 Cars 3

 

Latest Music

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the U2 performance of The Joshua Tree in Croke Park Dublin. Photographs: Eric Luke What unites a taoiseach, an archbishop and Chelsea Clinton? U2, of course

Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton flew into Ireland as guest of Bono

U2 perform The Joshua Tree at Croke Park, Dublin, the first time around, in 1987. Photograph: Eric Luke U2 in images then and now: The Joshua Tree, Croke Park, 1987 and 2017
Bono and Edge on stage during The Joshua Tree tour performance at Dublin’s Croke Park. Photograph: Cyril Byrne U2 at Croke Park: A nostalgic return that just made sense
  • Jimmy Osmond: ‘I’d be good in prison – I keep myself entertained’
  • Lana Del Rey brings her Hollywood to our Harcourt Street on Lust for Life
The Stevens : Good

 
Laucan: Frames per Second

 
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott: Crooked Calypso

 
Goldfinger: Crooked Calypso

 
NYSQ: Sleight of Hand

 
Foster The People: Sacred Hearts Club

 

Latest Books

Author Tim Haig: his new book ‘How To Stop Time’ has already been optioned for the big screen by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, Sunnymarch. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw ‘Having depression doesn’t make you immune to happiness’

Matt Haig on life after depression, negative reviews and his new book ‘How to Stop Time’

An illustration from “The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors” by kidlit powerhouses Drew Daywalt and Adam Rex Children’s book reviews: a round-up of some great reads
Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Mum’s the Word: A short story by Philip MacCann
  • David Sedaris: ‘Something horrible has happened to you? That’s not enough’
  • Good news for Colm Tóibín and Donal Ryan
Paradise Lost: A Life of F Scott Fitzgerald review – Behind the poster boy
Eleanor Oliphant is a most unusual and thought-provoking heroine
The Greatest Comeback review: a sombre salute to Béla Guttmann
Last Words? review: Why people still want good journalism

TV & Radio

Five TV shows you need to watch this week

John Creedon is on a river run, whilte Top of the Lake makes the move to Australia

Michael O’Leary of Ryanair: the Hamlet of mock indignation. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Gloves come off as Michael O’Leary and Joe Duffy slug it out over seats
Jason Bateman in Ozark Ozark review: A show with plenty of ideas, none of them original
  • Bumbling dads and enslaved mums: Has sexist advertising had its day?
  • Is it time to cut down on stereotyping in adverts?

Stage

Writer Eoghan Quinn gives a Chekhovian tinge to a declining family’s attempts to liquidise their assets The Water Orchard review: How to avoid being reduced to an emoticon

Collapsing Horse’s new show pits high tech against low as they tread the water boards

The original cast of “Eclipsed”: Margaret O’Sullivan, Elizabeth Byrne, Orla McGovern, Tristan Gribbon, Beverly Bishop. Front: Nicole Rourke and Carol Hunt. Photograph: Aengus McMahon ‘We’re not as far from Magdalene days as we’d like to believe’
Aaron Monaghan in ‘The Second Violinist’ at Black Box in Galway, part of the Galway International Arts Festival Escape the weather with our theatre recommendations
  • Crestfall review: An unnecessary dip into depravity
  • Tristan and Yseult review: playful ingenuity in a story of love

Art & Design

An example of a previous work done by Olivier Grossetete Fancy breaking up a building replica made from 1.5 tonnes of cardboard?

Artist Olivier Grossetete calls for public help to destroy his model of NUI Galway’s Aula Maxima

Genius idea: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will text you a relevant piece from its collection, such as Nam June Paik’s Bakelite robot, in response to a text message Art by text message, and other brilliant ideas
Jack B Yeats, ‘From Portacloy to Rathlin O’Beirne’, at the Hunt Museum in Limerick The best art shows to catch this weekend
  • ‘I was really interested in hairy ladies. The deviance’
  • The rules of hospital art: ‘If you can’t clean it, you can’t have it’

Unthinkable

French president Emmanuel Macron. Photograph: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images Paul Ricoeur: The philosopher behind Emmanuel Macron

Unthinkable: Macron studied under Ricoeur. What could it mean for his presidency?

A videograb of Thierry Henry’s handball that led to France’s goal against the Republic of Ireland in the 2010 Fifa World Cup play off. Photograph: Sky Sports What does sport tell us about morality?
Facing up or down? It’s the fluid in your ear canals that makes the front of the cabin look higher when you tilt backwards at takeoff. Photograph: EPA Aristotle got it wrong: We have a lot more than five senses
  • Is it possible for anxiety to be cured?
  • How to spot when politicians are misrepresenting science

Michael Viney's Another Life

Paper nautilus: a glossy white fan of a shell, so fragile that the sun infused it, gleaming through every tight fold. Illustration: Michael Viney On the equiangular spiral and how the narwhal got its horn

Michael Viney: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson belongs on the same shelf as Charles Darwin

Bracken: a single plant can eventually spread to fill a whole field. Illustration: Michael Viney Bracken: a single plant can eventually spread to fill a whole field – and it is very hard to get rid of. Illustration: Michael Viney Farmers’ weapons of mass destruction carry cancer fears
How many must die?: a flight of young sparrows. Illustration: Michael Viney How many birds can the natural world support?
  • A bunch of 10 wild roses by any other names
  • Pioneering plants in peril on shingle banks

Heritage

Rosebank house: A central focus of the festival will be the deeds of various informers, murderers, double-crossers and looters in the West Cork region Cork history festival unearths informers, murderers and looters

The West Cork History Festival takes place on the grounds of Lissard Estate and will feature a range speakers stirring up ideas and examining old animosities

Why did the elephants cross the road?
Veteran activist takes a bow
  • National Library’s €10 million renovation plan unveiled
  • The Times We Lived In: Insurance hikes exhausts the patience of MAD bikers

Treibh

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Lorgaireacht an iontais atá i dtriall seo na dtaisí

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1 Flower Boy might lack the raw power of some of Tyler’s first batch of tracks, but it reestablishes why we need him out here right now Has Tyler, the Creator come out on his new record?
2 Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the U2 performance of The Joshua Tree in Croke Park Dublin. Photographs: Eric Luke What unites a taoiseach, an archbishop and Chelsea Clinton? U2, of course
3 Bono and Edge on stage during The Joshua Tree tour performance at Dublin’s Croke Park. Photograph: Cyril Byrne U2 at Croke Park: A nostalgic return that just made sense
4 Michael O’Leary of Ryanair: the Hamlet of mock indignation. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Gloves come off as Michael O’Leary and Joe Duffy slug it out over seats
5 The original cast of “Eclipsed”: Margaret O’Sullivan, Elizabeth Byrne, Orla McGovern, Tristan Gribbon, Beverly Bishop. Front: Nicole Rourke and Carol Hunt. Photograph: Aengus McMahon ‘We’re not as far from Magdalene days as we’d like to believe’
6 U2 perform The Joshua Tree at Croke Park, Dublin, the first time around, in 1987. Photograph: Eric Luke U2 in images then and now: The Joshua Tree, Croke Park, 1987 and 2017
7 A cross which marks the place where James Connolly was executed, sitting in a chair, in the stonebreakers yard in Kilmainham Gaol yesterday. The other thirteen leaders of the rising were shot against the opposite wall. Photograph: Frank Miller Easter Rising 1916 – the aftermath: arrests and executions
8 David Sedaris: “I think it’s one of those words that people trot out to feel interesting. If your parents kept you in a cage, let’s call that dysfunction.” David Sedaris: ‘Something horrible has happened to you? That’s not enough’
9 Seamus Deane gives a reading at Cúirt in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway in 1989. Photograph: Joe St Leger Seamus Deane the poet: coming to terms with the past
10 Mr Salary – a short story by Sally Rooney
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