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Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in March
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • March 1, 2021, 06:00

Including Marriage or Mortgage, Sky Rojo and Sherlock Holmes spin-off The Irregulars

Sienna Miller: ‘I could have not gone out, not worn what I liked. I took them all to court instead’ Sienna Miller: ‘I could have not gone out, not worn what I liked. I took them all to court instead’
  • Film
  • Ryan Gilbey
  • March 1, 2021, 06:00

The actor on tabloid intrusions, the struggle for parity, and sympathising with Britney Spears

Ireland’s Stella named one of the world’s 20 most beautiful cinemas Ireland’s Stella named one of the world’s 20 most beautiful cinemas
  • Film
  • March 1, 2021, 12:02

Dublin art-deco-style cinema reopened in 2017 with a facelift after years of dilapidation

Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 1, 2021, 05:57

Chloé Zhao becomes only the second woman, after Barbra Streisand, to win best director

Golden Globes 2021: Full list of winners Golden Globes 2021: Full list of winners
  • Film
  • March 1, 2021, 06:16

In a huge shock, Andra Day won best actress in a drama for her brilliant turn as Billie Holiday

Prince Harry: My biggest fear with Meghan was history repeating itself Prince Harry: My biggest fear with Meghan was history repeating itself
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • March 1, 2021, 09:30

Prince’s mother, Princess Diana, died in car crash at 36 after being hounded by UK press

Attenborough’s Life In Colour: Just what I needed – a dazzling dose of escapism Attenborough’s Life In Colour: Just what I needed – a dazzling dose of escapism
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • February 28, 2021, 20:06

David Attenborough says he has taken a break from the ‘woe is me’ climate theme

All Creatures Great and Small: Who was the real James Herriot? All Creatures Great and Small: Who was the real James Herriot?
  • Books
  • Jennifer Vineyard
  • March 1, 2021, 06:00

The author and vet, aka Alf Wight, didn’t always let facts get in the way of a good story

The Sunken Road: An unflinching look at the brutality of Irish history The Sunken Road: An unflinching look at the brutality of Irish history
  • Books
  • Eoghan Smith
  • March 1, 2021, 06:00

Ciarán McMenamin’s excellent second novel explores the corrosive effects of war

Bobby Sands began his hunger strike 40 years ago today. What is its legacy? Bobby Sands began his hunger strike 40 years ago today. What is its legacy?
  • Books
  • Maggie Scull
  • March 1, 2021, 05:40

Sands was one of 23 prisoners to stop eating and drinking at Long Kesh/Maze Prison

Latest Film

The Stella Cinema, Rathmines, Dublin Ireland’s Stella named one of the world’s 20 most beautiful cinemas
Amy Poehler during the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and in the background Daniel Kaluuya, winner for Judas and the Black Messiah Golden Globes 2021: Full list of winners
Sienna Miller: ‘People say: “I love your style!” And I think, What about my films?’ Photograph: George Pimentel/Getty Sienna Miller: ‘I could have not gone out, not worn what I liked. I took them all to court instead’
  • Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film
  • Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?

TV & Radio

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special, to be broadcast on March 7th. Photograph: Harpo Productions/CBS Prince Harry: My biggest fear with Meghan was history repeating itself

Prince’s mother, Princess Diana, died in car crash at 36 after being hounded by UK press

Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in March
Life In Colour puts forward the thesis that colour has a key role in the evolution of life on the planet Attenborough’s Life In Colour: Just what I needed – a dazzling dose of escapism
  • TV guide: 25 of the best shows to watch this week, including tonight
  • A lot of the time we are not all in this together

Latest Books

James Herriot, aka Dr James Alfred Wight, in 1982. Photograph: RDImages/Epics/Getty All Creatures Great and Small: Who was the real James Herriot?

The author and vet, aka Alf Wight, didn’t always let facts get in the way of a good story

A mural depicting Bobby Sands in the Falls Road in Belfast. He died in prison after a 66-day hunger strike which he beganb on March 1st, 1981. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Bobby Sands began his hunger strike 40 years ago today. What is its legacy?
Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in the film version of...? (see question 4) The Books Quiz: What do Charlotte and Lucy require during a trip to Italy?
  • Dylan Thomas on visiting the United States
  • When a ‘good father’ decides to kill his whole family

Film Reviews

Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

 
Pelé: ‘I’ve had a few affairs, some of which resulted in children, but I only learned about them later.’ Pelé

 
’ If Day were in a better film, the current Golden Globe nominee would surely be among the frontrunners for best actress at the Oscars.’ The United States Vs Billie Holiday

 
The socially disadvantaged are afforded a dignity and interest that jollies this formally challenging film along. IWOW: I Walk on Water

 

Latest Music

Brian Finnegan, founder of Flook: ‘After a few weeks at home, I saw the effect it was having on the family and the feeling of being connected to the garden and the seasons. Maybe I’ve just been getting ready for this all my life’ ‘This year, for the first time in 25 years, I’ve just been rooted’

Flautist Brian Finnegan found having to stay at home expanded his creative horizons

Julian Baker: ‘I took sobriety and straight edge to be the same thing’ Julien Baker: ‘I feel this need to be transparent about what the lyrics are about’
Paul McCartney: “The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs.” Photograph: Mary McCartney/PA Wire Paul McCartney to publish 900-page lyrical ‘autobiography’
  • Grainne Humphreys: ‘Not much makes me feel better than a George Michael nostalgia trip’
  • Satanist appeals for support to take on government after blasphemy prosecution

Book Reviews

The Sunken Road: An unflinching look at the brutality of Irish history
Above Water: a crisply told story of surviving abuse
Before My Actual Heart Breaks: A promising but flawed Troubles tale
The Rag and Bone Shop: An intriguing study of memory

Stage

Gare St Lazare’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is. Photograph: Clare Keogh Cork theatre-makers waiting in the wings to step into the new normal

Theatre scene that thrived before pandemic is busy planning for return to work

Abbey Theatre: Caitríona McLauglin and Mark O’Brien are its new artistic and executive directors Abbey Theatre: New artistic and executive directors announced
Claudia Carroll: somehow, by some miracle, might my little play get to see the light of day? Claudia Carroll: My wish for 2021? That bums end up on actual seats in an actual theatre
  • Rough Magic prepares to cast spell on live audiences again
  • Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermath

Art & Design

Eoghan Nolan at home in Bray, Co Wicklow in 2011, when he featured in an Irish Times article on the merits and demerits of Kindles and hardcopy books. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times Eoghan Nolan, creator of the Glasnevin Cemetery ‘One Million Dubliners’ poster, has died

Eoghan Nolan was an advertising copywriter and a lynchpin of Dublin’s creative community

Spare Tyres. Painting: Mary Burke Art and the essence of farming
Fr Peter McVerry photographed with his dog Tiny near his home in Ballymun. Photograph: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times Dublin’s suburbs are ‘buzzing, thriving’. Well, some of them are
  • Frank McDonald: Johnny Ronan’s docklands towers give ‘two fingers’ to Dublin
  • Truce in century-long row between Ireland and UK over Hugh Lane’s paintings

Unthinkable

‘I think recognizing the wider role luck plays in society is very important,’ says TCD political scientist Peter Stone. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP Creative/Getty The Leaving Cert is not fair. Why not just replace it with a lottery?

Unthinkable: We can no longer plead ignorance of the inner workings of our State exams

‘It’s sobering to consider that in a parallel history the world might have looked more like a planet of the apes.’ File image: Sebastian Willnow/AFP/Getty You’re a large-brained scheming dreamer with a sense of justice: What it means to be human
The best way of teaching philosophy is to present children ‘with a stimulus or a question’ rather than a history lesson, says Worley. Photograph: Jens Buettner/AP Teaching children to respect all opinions can be problematic
  • Why Covid dissidents need to be understood, not demonised
  • ‘We have learned from Covid how much we miss touch’

Heritage

The former Player Wills factory site on South Circular Road in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill 3:43 Protected structure status recommended for Player Wills building

Former Dublin factory part of a 19-storey redevelopment plan

Bear Grylls: ‘Dealing with failure has been the key to any success in my life’. Photograph: Ben Simms/NBC/NBCU Bear Grylls: ‘You don’t need muscles or good looks’
The ESB’s proposal to convert the former Georgian House Museum on the corner of Merrion Square in Dublin into luxury apartments has been opposed by The Irish Georgian Society. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Don’t reopen Georgian museum, says former head of national collection
  • Dramatic Stonehenge discovery boosts ‘Irish’ account of its origins
  • ESB plan to convert museum into luxury apartments criticised by city councillors

Michael Viney's Another Life

Gannet with fish: Anyone who has watched the birds plunging vertically from the sky to seize mackerel deep beneath the surface must marvel at their anatomy. Illustration: Michael Viney Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbers

Michael Viney: Irish numbers have more than doubled since the counts of Operation Seafarer in 1970

Fox with prey: The urban adult is “thin and exhausted” from finding and ferrying food to its cubs. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: The fox as he dwells among us
Choughs. Illustration: Michael Viney The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
  • Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows
  • Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffin

Tuarascáil

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Bhí súil leis go mbeadh cúiteamh éigin dóibh siúd a thabharfadh faoi shiollabas níos dúshlánaí san Ardteistiméireacht

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  • Gá le hathbhreithniú ó bhonn ar chóras díolúintí ón nGaeilge

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One of the pictures on display at the Somme Heritage Centre in Newtownards, Co Down. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA The Sunken Road: An unflinching look at the brutality of Irish history
Trisk Kearney Above Water: a crisply told story of surviving abuse
Veronica O’ Keane sets out to describe how emotional states are intrinsically wired into the laying down of memories and to the experience of recall. The Rag and Bone Shop: An intriguing study of memory

Most Read in Culture

1 Bill Gates: ‘I’m not trying to take anything away from Greta Thunberg, but...’

2 The Stella Cinema, Rathmines, Dublin Ireland’s Stella named one of the world’s 20 most beautiful cinemas

3 Sienna Miller: ‘People say: “I love your style!” And I think, What about my films?’ Photograph: George Pimentel/Getty Sienna Miller: ‘I could have not gone out, not worn what I liked. I took them all to court instead’

4 Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in March

5 Catherine Talbot: “I wanted to think about motivation, as to how this could happen. And I struck on the theme of jealousy.” Photograph: Michael Durand When a ‘good father’ decides to kill his whole family

6 Kate Winslet: ‘Partly because we are emerging from this spectacular #MeToo period, women are less afraid to say what we think now.’ Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Kate Winslet: ‘I shouldn’t have worked with Woody. I’ll always grapple with that regret’

7 Moses Farrow (left) with his adoptive parents, Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, and some of his siblings in 1989. Photograph: Ron Galella/RGC via Getty Moses Farrow: ‘I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. The abuse at home reinforced that’

8 Eoghan Nolan at home in Bray, Co Wicklow in 2011, when he featured in an Irish Times article on the merits and demerits of Kindles and hardcopy books. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times Eoghan Nolan, creator of the Glasnevin Cemetery ‘One Million Dubliners’ poster, has died

9 A mural depicting Bobby Sands in the Falls Road in Belfast. He died in prison after a 66-day hunger strike which he beganb on March 1st, 1981. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Bobby Sands began his hunger strike 40 years ago today. What is its legacy?

10 Amy Poehler during the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film

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Music Quiz

The Music Quiz: Which Irish island appears on a David Gray album cover? The Music Quiz: Which Irish island appears on a David Gray album cover?

Plus: LSD in the studio coffee, Phil Lynott’s rock opera role, Pink Floyd’s musical nod

Macnas, whose parades are a core part of their work, receive this year’s special tribute award. Photograph: Brian Arthur
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

The Books Podcast

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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
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Christopher Plummer holds his Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Beginners in the press room at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California in February 2012. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images Christopher Plummer: A career in pictures
Late Late Toy Show 2020: Children from Spotlight Stage School and little puddle jumpers from Miss Ali Stage School rehearse Singin' in the Rain with show host Ryan Tubridy. Dublin. Photograph: Andres Poveda The Late Late Toy Show 2020
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