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Steve McQueen: Wore his own clothes If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 17, 2019, 23:59

Re-released this week, the ‘absolute rubbish’ film is one of the most entertaining movies ever

Drake at 3Arena Dublin: Everything you need to know Drake at 3Arena Dublin: Everything you need to know
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • March 18, 2019, 05:00

The Canadian rapper’s Assassination Vacation Tour multimedia overload makes a U2 show seem like a Whelan’s gig

The smartest dumb show on TV that everybody will be talking about The smartest dumb show on TV that everybody will be talking about
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Alex Hess
  • March 18, 2019, 15:44

The zippy saga about filthy-rich white guys is an antidote to self-serious antihero dramas

Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’ Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’
  • Film
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • March 16, 2019, 05:00

The actor on #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and why Sinéad O’Connor was ‘100% right’

Dancing with the Stars: It’s Frexit for Fred Cooke, like ‘a Lada in a shed full of Mercedes’ Dancing with the Stars: It’s Frexit for Fred Cooke, like ‘a Lada in a shed full of Mercedes’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 17, 2019, 22:10

Review: The Cork comedian voted off as Johnny Ward, Cliona Hagan and dark horse Mairéad Ronan through to final

Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81 Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81
  • Music
  • March 17, 2019, 23:03

Pioneering musician was known for 1962 hit Misirlou, the theme from Pulp Fiction

Queer Eye: Season three is a genuine sensation Queer Eye: Season three is a genuine sensation
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • March 17, 2019, 06:00

Reality TV: A reboot that feels fresh and necessary in a time of despondency

Flight of the Doves deserves to be a national institution Flight of the Doves deserves to be a national institution
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 17, 2019, 06:00

Donald Clarke: We need a campaign to put the film at the heart of Saint Patrick’s Day

I was seven when Dad died. I thought I found him in our attic one summer I was seven when Dad died. I thought I found him in our attic one summer
  • Books
  • Fionnuala O’Leary
  • March 16, 2019, 06:05

Why my father’s Hennessy Literary Award made me want to follow in his footsteps

Terror Nullius: White Australian mythology pummelled on screen Terror Nullius: White Australian mythology pummelled on screen
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • March 18, 2019, 09:43

Soda_Jerk juxtapose and reframe old film footage in ‘eco-horror road movie’ Terror Nullius

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Sisters Dan and Dominique Angeloro, collectively known as Soda_Jerk Terror Nullius: White Australian mythology pummelled on screen
Steve McQueen: Wore his own clothes If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk
Flight of the Doves: unspools on TG4 at 11am on St Patrick’s Day Flight of the Doves deserves to be a national institution
  • Lucas Hedges: ‘Saoirse Ronan was the most beautiful person I had ever seen on film ’
  • Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’

Film Reviews

Phénix Brossard and Colin Morgan in Benjamin Benjamin

 
Taraji P. Henson in What Men Want What Men Want

 
Ella Smith is extraordinary as the tattooed family matriarch Liz in Ray & Liz Ray & Liz

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

 

Latest Music

Drake: expect pyrotechnics. Photograph: Harmony Gerber/Getty Images Drake at 3Arena Dublin: Everything you need to know

The Canadian rapper’s Assassination Vacation Tour multimedia overload makes a U2 show seem like a Whelan’s gig

Dick Dale: performing in 2010 in Barcelona. His 1961 hit, Let’s Go Trippin’, is considered the first surf rock instrumental. Photograph: Photo by Jordi Vidal/Redferns Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81
Radie Peat with her Lankum bandmates. Photograph: Miguel Ruiz This Album Changed My Life: Mike and Lal Waterson – Bright Phoebus (1972)
  • New artist of the week: Franc Moody
  • I’m in the mood for oud: this week’s best jazz gigs

Album Reviews

Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux prima

 
Ye Vagabonds: The Hare's Lament

 
Conor Walsh: The Lucid

 
Patty Griffin: Patty Griffin

 
JENNY LEWIS: On the Line

 
Amanda Palmer: There Will Be No Intermission

 

Latest Books

John O’Leary on the Saltee Islands in July 1977 I was seven when Dad died. I thought I found him in our attic one summer

Why my father’s Hennessy Literary Award made me want to follow in his footsteps

John O’Leary visiting the Saltee Islands in July, 1977 Remember Minnie Plowden!: John O’Leary’s 1977 Hennessy Literary Award winning story
Kevin Breathnach: “His essays demonstrate not only an impressive depth of learning, but an even more necessary depth of feeling,” says Sally Rooney The Irish Times Books Podcast: with Kevin Breathnach and New Irish Writing’s Ciaran Carty
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead (8th century), translated by Gyurme Dorje
  • Browser reviews: Cultural confusion, human relations and true wit

Book Reviews

In the Closet of the Vatican review: Incredible detailing of homosexuality in church
Twilight of the Elites review: An insight into France’s gilets jaunes
Challenging the myths around Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius
Moving Histories review: A fresh take on Irish women’s emigration

TV & Radio

Paul Giamatti and Maggie Siff in Billions. Photograph: Jeff Neumann/Showtime The smartest dumb show on TV that everybody will be talking about

The zippy saga about filthy-rich white guys is an antidote to self-serious antihero dramas

Last dance: Fred Cooke and Giulia Dotta voted off the show in the semi-final. Photograph: Kyran O’Brien Dancing with the Stars: It’s Frexit for Fred Cooke, like ‘a Lada in a shed full of Mercedes’
MJ Rodriguez in Pose, Thursday on BBC2 TV guide: 24 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Queer Eye: Season three is a genuine sensation
  • Podcast of the Week: The Explainer

Stage

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

Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate

ThisIsPopBaby are helping me become the artist I never even thought I could be Sure Look It, Fuck It: A day in the life of a returning emigrant
Admirably determined: Gerard Adlum and Ian Toner in The Big Fellow The Big Fellow review: A lesson in what happens when you stop teaching history
  • Abbey directors to meet actors today in response to letter of protest
  • This week’s theatre: Country Girls hit the Abbey while Alice returns to Wonderland

Art & Design

From Made Ground, Green on Red Gallery This week’s visual arts highlights: Tracking changes in Dublin’s Docklands

Plus work by Wieczorek, Colman, Sullivan, O’Donoghue, Haughey, Nolan and Newman

i Series 07 by Eamonn Doyle Art in Focus: Eamonn Doyle – i Series 07
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?
  • Come up and see these fine, 100-year-old Irish etchings
  • Art in focus: Away by Patricia Burns

Unthinkable

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

Unthinkable: The Leave campaign was unconcerned about truth but Remainers showed ‘naivety and arrogance’, says philosopher Quassim Cassam

‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed
A group of Chinese Shaolin Buddhist monks on a visit to Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien How to find your inner Zen Buddhist
  • Living in the now: It’s not as simple as you’d think
  • In despair over climate change? Try ‘active hope’

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
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1 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
2 Steve McQueen: Wore his own clothes If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk
3 Paul Giamatti and Maggie Siff in Billions. Photograph: Jeff Neumann/Showtime The smartest dumb show on TV that everybody will be talking about
4 Ricky Gervais in After LIfe: slovenly, hard-drinking and misanthropic After Life: Ricky Gervais’s obnoxious new comedy isn’t funny
5 Drake: expect pyrotechnics. Photograph: Harmony Gerber/Getty Images Drake at 3Arena Dublin: Everything you need to know
6 Rose McGowan. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage/Getty Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’
7 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
8 Wendy Carlos: At the time ‘Switched-On Bach’ was released, the composer was six months into transgender hormone therapy, and still known as Carlos. Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music
9 John O’Leary on the Saltee Islands in July 1977 I was seven when Dad died. I thought I found him in our attic one summer
10 Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel with their wives, Lucille and Ida, in Stan’s sister’s pub, in England, in 1952 Laurel and Hardy – another fine mess: The real story of their final days
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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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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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