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XXXTentacion: his fans included Diplo, Kanye West and A$AP Rocky. Photograph: Miami Dade County Corrections via Getty Images XXXTentacion: a short life of brutal violence and trauma
  • Music
  • Sam Wolfson
  • June 19, 2018, 11:16

Rapper XXXTentacion will be remembered mostly for the violence he inflicted on vulnerable people

Pills, thrills and backaches: How to relive your Ibiza days Pills, thrills and backaches: How to relive your Ibiza days
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • June 19, 2018, 05:00

From Jenny Greene to Underworld, the summer is packed with house music nostalgia

‘Ireland’s Wild Waste’ shows us just how filthy lucre can be ‘Ireland’s Wild Waste’ shows us just how filthy lucre can be
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • June 19, 2018, 07:36

Review: Our waste management companies are cleaning up, but not in the way they should be

How ‘The Incredibles’ got a thrilling upgrade How ‘The Incredibles’ got a thrilling upgrade
  • Film
  • June 19, 2018, 06:00

The sequel to the 2004 film showcases just how far computer-generated animation has come

Ulster says ‘Yes’: let’s hear it for talking – and listening Ulster says ‘Yes’: let’s hear it for talking – and listening
  • Books
  • Anne Patterson
  • June 19, 2018, 06:00

Anne Patterson, a Co Antrim nurse now working in London, on her shortlisted debut

Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable show Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable show
  • Visual Art
  • Aidan Dunne
  • June 19, 2018, 05:00

Summer exhibitions invite us to consider our relationship to the land around us

American rapper XXXTentacion is shot dead at 20 American rapper XXXTentacion is shot dead at 20
  • Music
  • June 19, 2018, 08:18

The rapper was shot and killed in Florida as he faced accusations of violent crimes against a woman

The American ideal is that the child owes the parent nothing The American ideal is that the child owes the parent nothing
  • Books
  • Weike Wang
  • June 19, 2018, 05:28

A parent-child bond is a teacher-student relationship but immigration complicates this

Ireland’s native woodlands are quietly disappearing Ireland’s native woodlands are quietly disappearing
  • Heritage
  • Darragh Murphy
  • June 19, 2018, 06:00

Under 11% of country’s land is forested as State plants Sitka spruce at expense of indigenous trees

Ocean’s 8: The acting’s formulaic. And then there’s Helena Bonham Carter’s Irish accent Ocean’s 8: The acting’s formulaic. And then there’s Helena Bonham Carter’s Irish accent
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • June 18, 2018, 11:41

Review: Apart from Anne Hathaway, the Ocean’s 8 cast barely qualify as characters at all

Latest Film

Now: In the sequel, the Parrs, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and their children, are set against a more layered background. Photograph: Disney/Pixar How ‘The Incredibles’ got a thrilling upgrade

The sequel to the 2004 film showcases just how far computer-generated animation has come

New this week: Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol on the scene to be seen, as depicted in Studio 54 Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated
Sandra Bullock suggested that only those in any film’s target audience should review that film Men shouldn’t review ‘Ocean’s 8’? Wrong, Cate Blanchett
  • Raves, drugs and seagulls: Making a movie about today’s Dublin
  • The movie quiz: How well do you know your Pixar?
Kissing Candice

 
Ocean’s 8, like its predecessors, exists solely as a vessel for movie stars and celebrities Ocean's 8

 
Hereditary

 
Studio 54: celebrity-strewn Studio 54

 

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US rapper XXXTentacion, who's real name was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, after being charged with two felony offences in 2016. He was shot dead on Monday in Florida. Photograph: Florida Department of Corrections American rapper XXXTentacion is shot dead at 20

The rapper was shot and killed in Florida as he faced accusations of violent crimes against a woman

Ibiza anthems: a laser show at Amnesia, the Balearic nightclub. Photograph: Leelu/Getty Pills, thrills and backaches: How to relive your Ibiza days
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers: unashamed about the nostalgia factor. Photograph: Carrie Davenport/Redferns Nile Rodgers and Chic at Malahide Castle: Disco is life
  • One in five at UK festivals sexually assualted or harassed, survey shows
  • Icelandic female rap collective will bring zest to Body & Soul
Beyoncé and Jay-Z: Everything Is Love

 
Apollo Brown & Locksmith: No Question

 
Johnny Marr: Call the Comet

 
Vinny Peculiar: Return of the Native

 
Stuart A. Staples: Arrhythmia

 
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Hope Downs

 

Latest Books

Anne Patterson: Growing up during the Troubles, it sometimes felt that culture in my part of the world was put on hold. Photograph: Jane Cox Ulster says ‘Yes’: let’s hear it for talking – and listening

Anne Patterson, a Co Antrim nurse now working in London, on her shortlisted debut

Weike Wang: immigration can make the immediate family stronger than it would have been. Photograph: Saavedra Photography The American ideal is that the child owes the parent nothing
Fellow poets have paid tribute to Macdara Woods, whlo died last Friday. Photograph: Frank Miller ‘Macdara Woods was the recording angel of contemporary Irish poetry’
  • Grace by Paul Lynch: lush lyricism that serves a deeper purpose
  • Crime fiction: Stephen King goes Poe and Bill Clinton arms the president
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton: Rich kid satire that misses the mark
Wolfe Tone to James Joyce: Ireland’s special relationship with Paris
Lucia by Alex Pheby: On Bloomsday, a novel that rethinks James Joyce’s daughter
Tara Flynn: Rage-In review – a caustic, compassionate plea for empathy

TV & Radio

This dumping degrades the earth, poisons the groundwater, runs into the river and the sea, causing problems for generations ‘Ireland’s Wild Waste’ shows us just how filthy lucre can be

Review: Our waste management companies are cleaning up, but not in the way they should be

RTÉ investigates Ireland's booming waste industry 0:30 RTÉ investigates Ireland's booming waste industry
No Country for Women: The recent referendum on the Eighth Amendment removed one more shackle from Irish women. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins The seven best TV shows to watch this week
  • Queer Eye: a sanctuary of happiness in the frightening world of modern telly
  • Gaming: ‘Death Stranding’ yet again the standout trailer from E3 in LA

Stage

Tadhg Murphy in the Numbered at Fitzgerald Park, Cork, which runs until June 30th. Photograph: Krzysztof Zielenski The Numbered review: an interrogation of our futile anxiety over death

Elias Canetti’s play presents a world where everyone knows the age at which they’ll die

Lauren Coe is excellent as Emma in ‘Asking for It’. Photograph: Hugh O’Conor ‘Asking For It’ stage review: An unsettling anatomy of rape culture
Actor Robert De Niro on stage at the Tony awards in New York. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Robert De Niro applauded for ‘f**k Trump’ speech at Tony awards
  • Asking For It and The Kite Runner: This week’s theatre highlights
  • Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’

Art & Design

BalehomeBalehome by Katie Watchorn: A length of yellow hose forms a sinuous line of beauty across the floor. Installation view, Ros Kavanagh. Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable show

Summer exhibitions invite us to consider our relationship to the land around us

Kenyon Homfray, Forward Cut Close Contact Saddle, 1990. The Maker’s Hand – 50 years of the RDS Craft Awards
Robert Pinsky, painted by Mick O’Dea in 2015: the artist is known for the conversational informality of his approach Art in Focus: Mick O’Dea – Robert Pinsky
  • Artist group Subset calls on council to change street art regulations
  • Who’s afraid of the big, bad, deeply symbolic ‘Wolf’?

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

The Killarney fern – Trichomanes speciosum – is a filmy fern of finely cut, translucent tracery. Drawing: Michael Viney Michael Viney: As hedges and trees have grown, the acre is amassing quite a fernery

Apart from its rarity and ethereal beauty, the botanical fascination of the fern includes a quirk of lifestyle largely peculiar to Ireland

Cabbage white: many offspring are hatched by July. Illustration: Michael Viney Butterfly beauty, sexy scents and solar-powered wings
A hoverfly at tomato flowers: drawing by Michael Viney In praise of aphid-eating pollinators
  • The great decline of Ireland’s angel shark
  • New furry prey for the windhover, by any other name

Heritage

The Sitka spruce tree. Illustration: Michael Viney Ireland’s native woodlands are quietly disappearing

Under 11% of country’s land is forested as State plants Sitka spruce at expense of indigenous trees

Literary giant pays homage to Joyce
Christy Moore: Joxer Goes to Stuttgart captured the mood of 1988. Photograph: INM/Getty Christy Moore: ‘I’ve sung Joxer Goes to Stuttgart 3,000 times’
  • Cycling the plank on the Liffey
  • The joy of the jump

Treibh

Corn an Domhain sa Rúis. grianghraf: shaun botterill/getty images Liathróidí den uile chruth

Spreagann an sacar cuimhní cinn – agus bíodh trua agat don té nach bhfuil dúil ann.

Stoirm sa spéir. grianghraf: reuters An ghaoth mhór agus an traein abhaile
Ar chlár surfála na Gaeltachta arís eile
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  • Cuach, cleite, ceol agus cu-cú, cu-cú!

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1 XXXTentacion: his fans included Diplo, Kanye West and A$AP Rocky. Photograph: Miami Dade County Corrections via Getty Images XXXTentacion: a short life of brutal violence and trauma
2 US rapper XXXTentacion, who's real name was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, after being charged with two felony offences in 2016. He was shot dead on Monday in Florida. Photograph: Florida Department of Corrections American rapper XXXTentacion is shot dead at 20
3 The Sitka spruce tree. Illustration: Michael Viney Ireland’s native woodlands are quietly disappearing
4 Sandra Bullock suggested that only those in any film’s target audience should review that film Men shouldn’t review ‘Ocean’s 8’? Wrong, Cate Blanchett
5 Ocean’s 8, like its predecessors, exists solely as a vessel for movie stars and celebrities Ocean’s 8: The acting’s formulaic. And then there’s Helena Bonham Carter’s Irish accent
6 Hereditary: A nerve-shredding art-horror masterpiece
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 Fateful stroll to the castle grounds
9 Kissing Candice: This is not the Dundalk you thought you knew
10 Fever Ray: headlining the Body and Soul stage on Friday at the festival Body & Soul 2018: stage times revealed
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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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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
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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
The renowned uilleann piper Liam Óg O’Flynn has died at the age of 72 - Liam O'Flynn (left) with Shaun Davey (second from left) , Noel Eccles (standing) and Seamus Begley (right) in 2006. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien / The Irish Times Liam O'Flynn, master piper
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