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Jordan Peterson: neither a Christ figure nor a sexist, transphobic, tyrannical Antichrist. Photograph: James Forde Jordan Peterson: ‘What the hell’s wrong with self-help books?’
  • Books
  • Laura Kennedy
  • July 21, 2018, 06:00

Alt-right icon or incisive psychologist? The Canadian professor says his priority is to help people take charge of their lives

Famous writers and their vices: why we can’t get enough of them Famous writers and their vices: why we can’t get enough of them
  • Books
  • NJ McGarrigle
  • July 21, 2018, 06:35

Whether it’s Hemingway or F Scott Fitzgerald, we relish writers stepping into their pages

Oscar Wilde's links to blackface and racism Oscar Wilde's links to blackface and racism
  • Books
  • Eleanor Fitzsimons
  • July 21, 2018, 06:20

Making Oscar Wilde review: Michèle Mendelssohn’s fresh perspective will astonish even those who claim to know him intimately

Archaeological revelations in Meath offer a historic opportunity Archaeological revelations in Meath offer a historic opportunity
  • Heritage
  • Lorna Siggins
  • July 21, 2018, 05:00

Brú na Bóinne finds have captured public’s imagination, and raise questions for the State

Patrick Freyne: Conor McGregor strikes a blow for his presidency Patrick Freyne: Conor McGregor strikes a blow for his presidency
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • July 21, 2018, 05:00

MMA fighter’s praise for Putin comes during quite a week for preposterous men

All Together Now: The ‘powerful, amazing’ women behind the event All Together Now: The ‘powerful, amazing’ women behind the event
  • Music
  • Louise Bruton
  • July 21, 2018, 06:00

The Curraghmore House festival is largely the result of female creative forces

Pat Kenny pushes cocaine line to surreal limits Pat Kenny pushes cocaine line to surreal limits
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • July 21, 2018, 05:00

Radio review:Pat Kenny proves stimulating company while Jordan Peterson interview breathes life into Marian Finucane’s show,

Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine – Startling essays on addiction, infertility and rape Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine – Startling essays on addiction, infertility and rape
  • Books
  • Martina Evans
  • July 21, 2018, 06:30

Review: Emilie Pine’s shocking force shines through in the kind of book you want to give to everyone

14 of the best rock and pop concerts and festivals to catch this week in Ireland 14 of the best rock and pop concerts and festivals to catch this week in Ireland
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 21, 2018, 09:00

Summer Series at Trinity College features Grace Jones and Bryan Ferry whiule Flaming Lips and Madness pitch up in Galway’s Big Top

Suicide Club by Rachel Heng: Who wants to live forever? Suicide Club by Rachel Heng: Who wants to live forever?
  • Books
  • Sarah Gilmartin
  • July 21, 2018, 06:23

Novel about people on the cusp of immortality makes a case for quality over quantity

Latest Film

Film-maker James Gunn in Los Angeles, US, in November 2017. File photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director fired over offensive tweets

James Gunn is removed from Marvel project after posts making light of rape and 9/11

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: the cast includes Cher, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried Got a problem with Abba? Go back to your Emerson, Lake & Palmer gatefolds
Henry Cavill: “Moustachegate is now a thing. My moustache has been immortalised.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/NYT Henry Cavill: ‘Ireland taught me how to love the rain’
  • The movie quiz: Do you know your Bond villains?
  • Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
Jeff Goldblum and Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis Hotel Artemis

 
Laia Artigas as Frida Summer 1993

 
Vincent Lindon in The Apparition – beats Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code anyday The Apparition

 
Jean-Michel Basquiat in Boom for Real. Photograph: Alexis Adler BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

 

Latest Music

14 of the best rock and pop concerts and festivals to catch this week in Ireland

Summer Series at Trinity College features Grace Jones and Bryan Ferry whiule Flaming Lips and Madness pitch up in Galway’s Big Top

Curraghmore House in Co Waterford All Together Now: The ‘powerful, amazing’ women behind the event
Athlone-based artist Sequence, whose music draws less inspiration from American counterparts than Nigerian Afrobeat and dancehall music. New artist of the week: Sequence
  • For jazz concerts to see in Ireland this week
  • The best traditional music concerts to see in Ireland this week
Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose

 
Punch Brothers: All Ashore

 
Diplomat M: Collaboration One (Sound)

 
Jessica’s Brother: Jessica’s Brother

 
The Whileaways: From What We’re Made

 
The Internet: Hive Mind

 

Latest Books

Martha Gellhorn on her husband, Ernest Hemingway: “A man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being.” Photograph: Hulton/Getty Famous writers and their vices: why we can’t get enough of them

Whether it’s Hemingway or F Scott Fitzgerald, we relish writers stepping into their pages

“Two large dry whites and a plate of antipasti, Tobes,” Melanie called to Tobiasz. Illustration: Getty Images Two Damsons, a short story by P Kearney Byrne
David Jason with his waxwork double at Madame Tussaud’s, London, 1998. Photograph: Neil Munns/PA Photo Books in brief: Alastair Campbell cowrites a Troubles/football thriller
  • Pirates, explorers, Tropical Terry and a mischievous dodo
  • Jordan Peterson: ‘What the hell’s wrong with self-help books?’
Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine – Startling essays on addiction, infertility and rape
Suicide Club by Rachel Heng: Who wants to live forever?
Oscar Wilde's links to blackface and racism
The Lost Country review: an unfinished novel of dazzling interludes

TV & Radio

Emojiland: The Musical – getting a lot of smiley face responses I emoji, therefore I am: getting with the Unicode programme

The Meming of Life: the rise of the emojis is causing humans no end of textistential angst

Canadian author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson: His interview with Finucane certainly attests to his provocative yet deceptively academic style. Photograph: James Forde Pat Kenny pushes cocaine line to surreal limits
Francis Brennan takes 12 tourists on the trip of a lifetime to South Africa Five of the best TV shows to watch this weekend
  • Gordon Ramsay: as rancid as last year's calamari
  • ‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening: ‘People feel so powerless, they’re picking the wrong battles’

Stage

Brink Prodcutions of The Aspirations of Daise Morrow is at Black Box Theatre, from July 23rd to 28th Two must-see theatre shows this week at Galway International Arts Festival

Flight witnesses an epic struggle staged in miniature, while an immersive performance invites us to share the scorched earth of Patrick White’s Australia

Wicked: A dazzling display of stagecraft and social commentary
Stanley Townsend in Incanttata. Photograph: Patrick Redmond When grief and art become a gruelling, physical process
  • An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own
  • Come On Home: A tale of sexual repression and provincial suffocation

Art & Design

Stephen Loughman: “You look at a facade and you have no idea what’s going on inside, the lives people are leading, what they are thinking.” ‘Proven Answers’: How sci-fi and horror films feed into still-image art

Stephen Loughman’s paintings frame modern anxiety, often through cinema’s prism

Cillian Murphy in ‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers’ Building Enda Walsh’s world: ‘I like the danger of having a blank piece of paper’
The Valiant Adventures of Tawara Toda: part of the scrolls on view at the Chester Beatty Library until January 2019 Art in Focus: The Tale of Tawara Toda – Japanese story painters
  • Irish architect nominated for Sterling Prize for Oxford building
  • Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spell

Unthinkable

Irish Yong Philosopher Award winner Luke Rickard (16) with President Michael D. Higgins. Photograph: UCD Colleges of Social Sciences and Law Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year

Unthinkable: The Irish Young Philosopher Awards hopes to become as big as the Young Scientist exhibition

‘There is a paradox in war: Why do individuals sacrifice themselves for their groups?’ Photgraph: Reuters/Joe Raedle Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare
Rhetorical rivals Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. Photographs: Getty Images Was Ireland’s most prominent philosopher ‘too womanly’?
  • How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?
  • Would lowering voting age justify being tougher on under 18s?

Michael Viney's Another Life

“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

Access to water, and lack of it, shapes ecosystem for humans, flora and fauna alike

“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
Upland peat. Illustration: Michael Viney For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches
  • We’ve known of ‘the plastic perils in the sea’ for 30 years

Heritage

The Times We Lived In: House on Inis M, Aran Islands. Photograph: Eddie Kelly Winter loneliness on a western island

The Times We Lived In – Taken: November 26th, 1955. Photograph by Eddie Kelly

Archaeologists work with Dr Clíodhna Ní Lionáin at the passage tomb site at Dowth Hall, Co Meath. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times Archaeological revelations in Meath offer a historic opportunity
It is believed to have been built 500 years after Newgrange. Photograph: Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Newgrange: Henge discovered may be astronomically aligned
  • Schull to relive Famine experience at workhouse
  • English fort discovered during Castlecomer hotel development

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Tá feidhm leis an ‘chúpla focal’ thar lear – ach seachain an drochaistriúchán!

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Most Read in Culture

1 Jordan Peterson: neither a Christ figure nor a sexist, transphobic, tyrannical Antichrist. Photograph: James Forde Jordan Peterson: ‘What the hell’s wrong with self-help books?’
2 Conor McGregor at the World Cup with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Photograph: @thenotoriousmma/Instagram Patrick Freyne: Conor McGregor strikes a blow for his presidency
3 Film-maker James Gunn in Los Angeles, US, in November 2017. File photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director fired over offensive tweets
4 Martha Gellhorn on her husband, Ernest Hemingway: “A man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being.” Photograph: Hulton/Getty Famous writers and their vices: why we can’t get enough of them
5 Henry Cavill: “Moustachegate is now a thing. My moustache has been immortalised.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/NYT Henry Cavill: ‘Ireland taught me how to love the rain’
6 Stephen Loughman: “You look at a facade and you have no idea what’s going on inside, the lives people are leading, what they are thinking.” ‘Proven Answers’: How sci-fi and horror films feed into still-image art
7 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: the cast includes Cher, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried Got a problem with Abba? Go back to your Emerson, Lake & Palmer gatefolds
8 The Irish language derives from a world in which the unseen is as real as the seen. Photograph: Istock A magical vision is hidden in the Irish language – we need to rediscover it
9 Wilde depicted as a blackface interlocutor in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Oscar Wilde's links to blackface and racism
10 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
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The cast during rehearsals of Paul Howard’s ‘Copper Face Jacks’ in the Olympia Treatre, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Copper Face Jacks: The Musical: Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’
London children: we played the same games and watched the same TV programmes and listened to the same pop songs Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal
'Shy but wild': Dolores O’Riordan in 2007. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The young Dolores O’Riordan: ‘Shy and wild, then that voice would explode’

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Comedian and actor on why she’s enamoured with Joanne McNally, Madrid and Marian Keyes

Paul Lynch: serious fiction is a form of knowledge. The writer seeks to understand the truths that define the human condition. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/ Getty Images
The Book Club Click to join in the discussion about this month's book, Grace
 
Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture
 

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Galleries

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, his mother, Wendy O'Connor and sister Kim Cobain pictured this morning with Kurt's Dodge Dart car at the Newbridge Museum of Style Icons where the Cobain family opened an exhibition 'Growing Up Kurt Cobain'. The exhibition runs until 30th September 2018. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Gallery: Kurt Cobain exhibition in Newbridge
HETTY LAWLOR: Overall winner, Young Mayo artist Hetty Lawlor - a 17-year old student from Kilmeena, near Westport and a pupil at the local Sacred Heart School - with her picture entitled 'Grainne', winner of the 64th Texaco Children's Art competition held at the RHA Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Texaco Children's Art Competition
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