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Us: Lupita Nyong’o stars in Jordan Peele’s film Jordan Peele: ‘Hearing an audience shudder with fear is a whole other level’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • March 21, 2019, 05:00

The Get Out director on his doppelganger horror Us, starring Lupita Nyong’o

Bill & Ted Face The Music: third movie is totally on the way, dude Bill & Ted Face The Music: third movie is totally on the way, dude
  • Film
  • March 21, 2019, 08:49

Stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter announce details of Bill & Ted Face the Music, which will hit screens next year

The White Crow: Ralph Fiennes serves up Nureyev the nice The White Crow: Ralph Fiennes serves up Nureyev the nice
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • March 21, 2019, 08:59

Review: Film recounts confusion around hot-headed ballet dancer’s defection to West in 1961

Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t
  • Music
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • March 20, 2019, 14:45

It has been on Alan Partridge and a Brady’s ham ad. So what does the rebel song mean?

Oxford English Dictionary does not add gobshite or langer to new entries Oxford English Dictionary does not add gobshite or langer to new entries
  • Books
  • March 21, 2019, 09:59

An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of crowdsourced Scottish insults

Fred and Rosemary West: The clues were all there, for 20 years Fred and Rosemary West: The clues were all there, for 20 years
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • March 20, 2019, 19:48

‘House of Horrors’ show investigates how killers went undetected despite alarm bells

Stranger Things season three trailer revealed Stranger Things season three trailer revealed
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • March 20, 2019, 17:20

Five things we now know about the new series and how ‘one summer can change everything’

Drake in Dublin review: In seconds, he goes from zero to wreck-the-gaff Drake in Dublin review: In seconds, he goes from zero to wreck-the-gaff
  • Music
  • Una Mullally
  • March 20, 2019, 00:02

A sportscar spins through the air at the 3Arena (that’s no metaphor, it happened)

Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 line-up: Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Alison Spittle Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 line-up: Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Alison Spittle
  • Stage
  • Amy O'Connor
  • March 20, 2019, 13:29

Dara Ó Briain, Nish Kumar, Rose Matafeo and Jena Friedman also on 25th festival bill

Us: Macabre American satire from the maker of Get Out Us: Macabre American satire from the maker of Get Out
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 20, 2019, 10:05

Review: All credit to a cast that includes Lupita Nyong’o and Elisabeth Moss

Latest Film

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves: totally awesome return. Photograph: YouTube Bill & Ted Face The Music: third movie is totally on the way, dude
Us: Lupita Nyong’o stars in Jordan Peele’s film Jordan Peele: ‘Hearing an audience shudder with fear is a whole other level’
Minding the Gap: Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Bing Liu’s film. Photograph: Bing Liu/Sundance Toxic masculinity, endless abuse: Minding the Gap’s tangled web
  • Toy Story 4 trailer: Woody’s there. And Mr Potato Head. But no John Lasseter ...
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Film Reviews

Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow The White Crow

 
The millions who enjoyed Get Out will expect a debate about socio-political discontents Us

 
Phénix Brossard and Colin Morgan in Benjamin Benjamin

 
Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges in Ben Is Back. Photograph: Lionsgate Ben is Back

 

Latest Music

Come Out Ye Black and Tans: the rabble-rouser was sung by The Wolfe Tones. Photograph: Terry Thorp Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t

It has been on Alan Partridge and a Brady’s ham ad. So what does the rebel song mean?

Drake’s North American tour took on mythical status. Photograph: Ross Gilmore/Getty Images Drake in Dublin review: In seconds, he goes from zero to wreck-the-gaff
Hard rock guitarist Bernie Tormé performing on stage at the 2013 Hard Rock Hell festival in Wales. Photograph: Kevin Nixon/Metal Hammer Magazine/Future Publishing/Getty Images Bernie Tormé, Irish guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne band, dies aged 66
  • Úna Monaghan: Electroacoustic experiments on the harp
  • Drake at 3Arena Dublin: Everything you need to know

Album Reviews

Patty Griffin: Patty Griffin

 
Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux prima

 
Ye Vagabonds: The Hare's Lament

 
JENNY LEWIS: On the Line

 
Conor Walsh: The Lucid

 
Amanda Palmer: There Will Be No Intermission

 

Latest Books

The OED’s Indian English vocabulary is updated with the phrase “kiss my chuddies”, or underpants, used as a catchphrase by Sanjeev Bhaskar in Goodness Gracious Me Oxford English Dictionary does not add gobshite or langer to new entries

An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of crowdsourced Scottish insults

Important imports: some of the modern Irish novels taught by Dr Val Nolan at Aberystwyth University Teaching Irish literature in a time of Brexit
It is simply not possible for a writer to edit their own work to a publishable standard, argues Richard Bradburn Aspiring authors – you are not alone
  • Leanne O’Sullivan wins first Farmgate Market Cafe National Poetry Award
  • Putting the huge life change before the horse

Book Reviews

Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint review
Twilight of the Elites review: An insight into France’s gilets jaunes
In the Closet of the Vatican review: Incredible detailing of homosexuality in church
New Daughters of Africa review: vast and nuanced collection

TV & Radio

Stranger Things 3 - official trailer 2:43 Stranger Things 3 - official trailer

The official trailer for Stranger Things 3, premiering online on July 4th. Video: Netflix

Serial killers Rosemary and Fred West Fred and Rosemary West: The clues were all there, for 20 years
Stranger Things: ‘We’re not kids any more’. Photograph: Netflix Stranger Things season three trailer revealed
  • Tayla Harris photo: When trolls turn on an athlete, we should stand up for her, not give in
  • Alan Partridge singing Come Out, Ye Black and Tans both awkward and hilarious

Stage

Kilkenny Cat Laughs: Dylan Moran is bringing his Dr Cosmos show to the comedy festival Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 line-up: Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Alison Spittle

Dara Ó Briain, Nish Kumar, Rose Matafeo and Jena Friedman also on 25th festival bill

Charlie’s a Clepto: Clare Monnelly populates a north Dublin neighbourhood with a gallery of distinctive characters Charlie’s a Clepto review: Nimble plotting, nimble performance
Clare Dunne, already an accomplished actor, is now making another mark as a writer. This week’s theatre highlights: Sure Look It, Fuck It and The Children
  • Sure Look It, Fuck It: A day in the life of a returning emigrant
  • The Big Fellow review: A lesson in what happens when you stop teaching history

Art & Design

Stephen McKenna: he quickly recast, or perhaps learned to interpret, abstraction as a pictorial means of making models of the world. Stephen McKenna: a painters’ painter

A Painter’s Life exhibition offers insight into artist whose life was process of inquiry

A Dream of Rising Matter by Liliane Tomasko Liliane Tomasko’s abstract dream paintings offer no neat solutions
Dramatic changes over a short time frame can have profound effects on the psyche of a nation. Illustration: Sorcha O’Higgins Do the Poolbeg towers really define modern Ireland?
  • Art in Focus: Eamonn Doyle – i Series 07
  • This week’s visual arts highlights: Tracking changes in Dublin’s Docklands

Unthinkable

A pro-Brexit activist holds a placard outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/ AFP/Getty Images ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe

Unthinkable: People want ‘sovereignty’ over their lives, says philosopher Michele Nicoletti

Remainers showed ‘a lethal combination of arrogance and naivety’ ahead of the 2016 referendum. Photograph: Reuters/Henry Nicholls Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six
‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed
  • How to find your inner Zen Buddhist
  • Living in the now: It’s not as simple as you’d think

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

Lilian Bland at the controls of the Mayfly. The highs and lows of those early aviation years

Lilian Bland was one such magnificent and colourful aviator in a flying machine

The 16th, 17th (St Patrick’s Day) and 18th March: Erskine Nicol’s painting of the Irish celebration that included Sheelah’s Day. Photograph courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland Sheelah take a bow: This Irish icon was far more than just St Patrick’s wife
Bridget and Michael Cleary Westmeath was a hotbed of ‘leprechaun’ activity in 1908
  • Fintan O’Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald Trump
  • Protected structures at risk across country, says surveyor

Tuarascáil

Bhí eolas maith ag Dermot faoin slua sí ó dhúchas. Scéal ‘Budgie’: Ag amharc siar

Cha raibh Gaeilge ar bith i dteach na scoile an t-am sin agus níl mórán anois ach oiread

D’fhéadfadh scata bríonna a bheith le ‘Broidimeacht’ arb é an ceann is ansa liom ná go bhfuil siad á mbroideadh amach ag eite ghealtach an pháirtí Tóraí, ach gur cosúla gur ‘Bródimeacht’ is mó a thug ar Shasanaigh a nguth a chaitheamh ar son fágála sa chéad áit. Grianghraf: Georgia O’Callaghan/Getty Breatimeacht, Britimeacht, Broimeacht nó Brotimeacht?
An Gréasán: eagras nua tacaíochta tosaithe do mhúinteoirí iar-bhunscoile Gaeilge. An Gréasán: Guth nua do mhúinteoirí iar-bhunscoile Gaeilge
  • Ag cothú na hinchinne
  • Cad iad na prionsabail a bhaineann le saoránacht a bhaint de dhuine?

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1 Come Out Ye Black and Tans: the rabble-rouser was sung by The Wolfe Tones. Photograph: Terry Thorp Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t
2 Serial killers Rosemary and Fred West Fred and Rosemary West: The clues were all there, for 20 years
3 Last night’s episode of the spoof magazine show featured Steve Coogan playing an Irish farmer named Martin Brennan. Screenshot: BBC Alan Partridge singing Come Out, Ye Black and Tans both awkward and hilarious
4 The OED’s Indian English vocabulary is updated with the phrase “kiss my chuddies”, or underpants, used as a catchphrase by Sanjeev Bhaskar in Goodness Gracious Me Oxford English Dictionary does not add gobshite or langer to new entries
5 Star forward: Tayla Harris scoring the first goal of Sunday’s Pride Game. Photograph: Michael Willson/AFL/Getty Tayla Harris photo: When trolls turn on an athlete, we should stand up for her, not give in
6 Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves: totally awesome return. Photograph: YouTube Bill & Ted Face The Music: third movie is totally on the way, dude
7 Us: Lupita Nyong’o stars in Jordan Peele’s film Jordan Peele: ‘Hearing an audience shudder with fear is a whole other level’
8 Important imports: some of the modern Irish novels taught by Dr Val Nolan at Aberystwyth University Teaching Irish literature in a time of Brexit
9 Donald Trump: The US president “has the unusual quality of appearing to be a man with no interior life whatsoever. Crucially, he seems never to have experienced shame”. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters You total loser: Donald Trump and the power of a small vocabulary
10 Kilkenny Cat Laughs: Dylan Moran is bringing his Dr Cosmos show to the comedy festival Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 line-up: Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Alison Spittle
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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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