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Vicky Phelan writes about the moment she heard her test result was incorrect: “A question suddenly came to me. ‘Are there other women in this situation?’” Photograh: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Overcoming: Vicky Phelan’s story of truth and bravery
  • Books
  • Liz Farsaci
  • September 13, 2019, 16:21

Book Review: Memoir adds depth and context, mixing the personal and the political

First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland
  • Books
  • Gemma Tipton
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

MoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and more

TV guide: 13 shows to watch this week TV guide: 13 shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • September 15, 2019, 06:00

Brendan Gleeson stars in Mr Mercedes, Sue Cox plays matchmaker in Love in the Countryside, and Ben Kingsley pops up on TG4 in new series Perpetual Grace LTD

Margaret Atwood: ‘Ireland risks being plunged into north-south warfare if they establish a border’ Margaret Atwood: ‘Ireland risks being plunged into north-south warfare if they establish a border’
  • Books
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • September 14, 2019, 06:00

Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale ‘partly inspired by world we’re living in’, says author

The Atrix: Legends back from the wasteland The Atrix: Legends back from the wasteland
  • Music
  • John Fleming
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

Cult new wave national treasures The Atrix return with a gig, a CD and new material

Stories for young readers: The best folktales for children Stories for young readers: The best folktales for children
  • Books
  • Sara Keating
  • September 15, 2019, 06:00

Catherine O’Flynn has a debut children’s novel called Lori and Max

Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project
  • Visual Art
  • Aidan Dunne
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

Live installation will be presented at the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival in Cork

Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries? Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?
  • Heritage
  • Hugh Linehan
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

Historical and popular culture landmarks offer valuable opportunities to reflect on events

Elizabeth McGovern: ‘I didn’t realise how lucky I was’ Elizabeth McGovern: ‘I didn’t realise how lucky I was’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

She starred with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, and was directed by Sergio Leone and Milos Forman, but now she is donning Lady Grantham’s tiara again for the Downton Abbey film

Lulu Wang: ‘I thought The Farewell would be my last-ever film’ Lulu Wang: ‘I thought The Farewell would be my last-ever film’
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

The Chinese-American director on wowing Sundance, turning down ‘streaming service’ money, and how Crazy Rich Asians proved you don’t need a white American lead actor

Latest Film

Lulu Wang, director of The Farewell: ‘I made something that is unapologetically me – both Chinese and American.’ Photograph: Joyce Kim/New York Times Lulu Wang: ‘I thought The Farewell would be my last-ever film’
Elizabeth McGovern: ‘I did feel like a fish out of water for a long time. I don’t anymore.’ Photograph: Aaron Richter/New York Times Elizabeth McGovern: ‘I didn’t realise how lucky I was’
And the Oscar goes to? Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
  • The movie quiz: Who is in both the highest and second highest grossing films ever?
  • What’s up and what’s down at the Toronto International Film Festival

Film Reviews

Affecting performance: Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin Phoenix

 
Extra Ordinary requires epic suspension of disbelief Extra Ordinary

 
Jennifer Lopez is alternately maternal, sisterly, steely and warm Hustlers

 
For Sama: speaks to the human capacity for survival For Sama

 

TV & Radio

Seems like old times: British prime minister David Cameron and London mayor Sadiq Khan campaign for Remain on May 30th, 2016. Cameron is back in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, an interview Monday on UTV, and a documentary Thursday on BBC1. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA TV guide: 13 shows to watch this week

Brendan Gleeson stars in Mr Mercedes, Sue Cox plays matchmaker in Love in the Countryside, and Ben Kingsley pops up on TG4 in new series Perpetual Grace LTD

Stephen Rea: Miriam disarms Rea’s lugubriously diffident public persona. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Miriam O’Callaghan runs close to caricature of herself
Actor Felicity Huffman (center) arrives at federal court with her husband William H Macy in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday. Photograph: Kate Flock/Bloomberg Felicity Huffman given 14 days in prison for part in US college admission scandal
  • Weekend TV guide: 15 of the best shows to watch
  • Jesy Nelson of Little Mix: I kept saying, ‘I just want to die. I just want to die’

Latest Music

Horslips are due to play Féile ’19. Photograph: Rob Hearne Gig of the Week: Féile ’19 at Semple Stadium

Horslips, Sinéad O’Connor, and hot tubs await punters making the Trip to Tipp

The Atrix: Chris Green, Hugh Friel, John Borrowman and Dick Conroy. Their complex songs produced by Phil Chevron, Midge Ure and John Leckie are brilliant exemplars of the intelligent new wave. The Atrix: Legends back from the wasteland
Anne Heraty, the Edge, Elaine Coughlan, and Mark Roden at the launch of Endeavor Ireland. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Elevation pitch: U2’s the Edge announces new group to help Irish entrepreneurs
  • Daniel Johnston: An out-of-tune piano, a cheap organ, beautiful songs
  • Daniel Johnston, enigmatic cult songwriter, dies aged 58

Album Reviews

Girl Band: The Talkies

 
Pixies: Beneath the Eyrie

 
Gruff Rhys: Pang!

 
Jenny Hval: The Practice of Love

 
Operating Theatre: Miss Mauger

 
Iggy Pop: Free

 

Latest Books

Catherine O’Flynn’s Lori and Max: features an aspiring detective, who looks to Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes for inspiration Stories for young readers: The best folktales for children

Catherine O’Flynn has a debut children’s novel called Lori and Max

Gianni Versace was murdered by Andrew Cunanan in 1997. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters Vulgar Favours: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in US History (1999)
Margaret Atwood. Photograph: Arden Wray/New York Times Margaret Atwood: ‘Ireland risks being plunged into north-south warfare if they establish a border’
  • First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland
  • The Irish Times Books podcast: Danielle McLaughlin

Book Reviews

The Age of Football: The ugly side of the beautiful game
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto review
Overcoming: Vicky Phelan’s story of truth and bravery
We Need New Stories: clear dissection of emerging myths

Stage

Nine Weeks: Kennedy’s performance is composed with love and freighted with grief. Photograph: Seán Kennedy Nine of the best shows to catch at Dublin Fringe Festival

The highest-rated Dublin Fringe shows to see this week, as chosen by our critics

Fleabag: the Irish Film Institute hosted a live screening of the sell-out West End play. Photograph: Joan Marcus What happened when Fleabag and, briefly, the Hot Priest came to a Dublin cinema?
Making a Mark: documenting the life experience of Mark Smith. Photograph: Luca Truffarelli Making a Mark review: A life worthy of celebration
  • Gym Swim Party review: An epic battle on a contemporary stage
  • Peter Andre: ‘I’d love to be in Peaky Blinders. Or Line of Duty’

Art & Design

Damnatio Memoriae, Conor O'Grady This week’s best art exhibitions

Shows by Conor O'Grady, Yuko Mohri, Patrick Horan, Robert Ryan and the Irish Architectural Archive's artists in residence

Winter Cherry Tree, Makiko Nakamura, 2019, oil and metal leaf on linen, 41X41cms Art in Focus: Makiko Nakamura – Winter Cherry Tree
The preserved heart from the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, that will be used as part of the Heartship art project by Dorothy Cross Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project
  • Insider art: finding release through creativity in Irish prisons
  • A meeting of minds between the abstract and the representational

Unthinkable

‘Judging that a certain course of action is irrational is always relative to a host of other contextual considerations’ Photograph: iStock Why there will never be a cure for irrationality

Unthinkable: Justin E H Smith discusses technological utopianism, Slavoj Zizek and the role of comedy in philosophy

Pointing the finger: Shame is necessary, because it enforces essential social morals. But endless shame is emotional cruelty. Photograph: Getty Images When is it okay to shame another person?
‘Experienced change over clock time is like stepping over stones. If you run, each step crosses more stones.’ Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Why does time fly? Maybe you’re not paying enough attention
  • Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism?
  • Ireland can manage without the church but can it do without myths?

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

‘For a smart, charming young woman like Maeve Brennan, able to waltz her way into the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and the New Yorker, the choice between Ireland and exile cannot have required much agonising.’ Maeve Brennan, a writer who was at home in neither Ireland nor America

From the archive: ‘Irish literature’s best-kept secret ... everyone should be reading her’

The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon was marked this year Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?
The contents of an American food parcel in December 1946. Photograph: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images. Rationing in 1940s Ireland: Drapers protest over clothes restrictions
  • Hotelier plans new Iveagh Markets Quarter in Dublin’s Liberties
  • Iveagh Markets ‘unsafe’ and in ‘advanced state of dereliction’

Tuarascáil

Déardaoin seo caite, ghlac mic léinn Choláiste Lú i nDún Dealgan páirt in agóid faoin laghdú agus an imeallú a dúradar atá tar éis teacht ar líon na n-ábhar atá á múineadh trí Ghaeilge sa scoil. Grianghraph: Alan Betson In am dul i ngleic leis an ‘lúb ar lár’

Dul chun cinn déanta ó thaobh soláthar oideachas trí Ghaeilge ach nach bhfuil sé in am polasaí a chumadh don earnáil ina iomláine?

Vársá na Polainne. Grianghraif: Kacper Pempel/Reuters An scrios mór
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Grianghraf: Cyril Byrne. An Ghaeilge ar bhord na hidirbheartaíochta?
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Catherine O’Flynn’s Lori and Max: features an aspiring detective, who looks to Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes for inspiration Stories for young readers: The best folktales for children
President of Fifa Gianni Infantino, Russian president Vladimir Putin and French president Emmanuel Macron during the award ceremony following the World Cup final match in Moscow last year. Photograph: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty The Age of Football: The ugly side of the beautiful game
Nesrine Malik’s book is well-researched and thorough; her tone neither ironic nor sneering. We Need New Stories: clear dissection of emerging myths
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 Reviews, news and interviews from the capital city's biggest and most diverse festival
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Chinese pianist Yuja Wang made her Dublin debut last week in Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, playing it with what you might call super-high resolution The Rachmaninov method: Practise like a snail, play like a gazelle
2 Simon O’Connor, director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland
3 Stephen Rea: Miriam disarms Rea’s lugubriously diffident public persona. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Miriam O’Callaghan runs close to caricature of herself
4 Richard Dawkins: ‘I think the exceptionalism of humanity needs examining.’ Photograph: Don Arnold/Getty Richard Dawkins: ‘Brexit is now a religion. They don’t mind if they destroy the country’
5 Margaret Atwood. Photograph: Arden Wray/New York Times Margaret Atwood: ‘Ireland risks being plunged into north-south warfare if they establish a border’
6 British prime minister Boris Johnson has claimed that the EU was ‘pursuing a similar goal to Hitler in trying to create a powerful superstate’, and that the plucky English Brexiteers would ‘set the country free’. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Decay of English language makes it perfect for lying
7 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
8 Vicky Phelan writes about the moment she heard her test result was incorrect: “A question suddenly came to me. ‘Are there other women in this situation?’” Photograh: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Overcoming: Vicky Phelan’s story of truth and bravery
9 Dwayne Johnson: the former wrestler has earned an estimated $89.4 million (€80.7million) in the last 12 months. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed
10 The contestants in Treasure Island with Bear Grylls Who would have thought the British upper classes would be so thoughtless of their neighbours?
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Vote 100 Celebrating a century since Irish women won the right to vote
 
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