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Catherine Corless follows the harrowing history of Julia Devaney, confined in Tuam Mother and Baby Home for most of her life. Photograph: Reuters/Peter Nicholls No Country For Women: dire consequences of silenced voices
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • June 20, 2018, 12:04

Lavinia Kerwick and Catherine Corless among presenters of RTÉ’s sprawling documentary

The women transforming Cork into a city of art and culture The women transforming Cork into a city of art and culture
  • Culture
  • Mary Leland
  • June 20, 2018, 05:00

Collaboration sees Cork Opera House become a practical focus for UCC students

Paul McCartney releases two new songs and announces new album Paul McCartney releases two new songs and announces new album
  • Music
  • June 20, 2018, 17:45

Egypt Station album will be out in September as singer releases I Don’t Know and Come On To Me

Billy Joel at Aviva Stadium: Everything you need to know Billy Joel at Aviva Stadium: Everything you need to know
  • Music
  • Louise Bruton
  • June 20, 2018, 14:00

From tickets and transport to accessibility, security, the weather and the set list

Through the looking glass of books Through the looking glass of books
  • Books
  • Hilary Fannin
  • June 20, 2018, 14:53

Active participation in stories helps children develop future mental health

Grandpa taught me the deep impression a grandparent can have Grandpa taught me the deep impression a grandparent can have
  • Books
  • Ally Bunbury
  • June 20, 2018, 05:59

Ally Bunbury remembers her grandfather’s role in an adventurous childhood

James Clarence Mangan, the rebel poet James Clarence Mangan, the rebel poet
  • Books
  • Redmond O'Hanlon
  • June 20, 2018, 05:43

Joyce admired Mangan, who died on this day in 1849, for his poems if not his patriotism

XXXTentacion: a short life of brutal violence and trauma 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

The Happy Prince: Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde just escapes the pantomine trap The Happy Prince: Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde just escapes the pantomine trap
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • June 20, 2018, 10:00

Review: Rupert Everett the writer-director isn’t as impressive as Rupert Everett the actor

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

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?
The Happy Prince

 
Kissing Candice

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

 
Hereditary

 

Latest Music

Billy Joel: his Aviva Stadium gig on June 23rd will essentially be a giant singalong session Billy Joel at Aviva Stadium: Everything you need to know

From tickets and transport to accessibility, security, the weather and the set list

The Killers take to the stage at the RDS on June 26th. File photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Summer in the City at the RDS: everything you need to know
Body&Soul: taking place in Meath’s Ballinlough Castle for its ninth year Body & Soul festival 2018: Everything you need to know
  • Paul McCartney releases two new songs and announces new album
  • American rapper XXXTentacion is shot dead at 20
Beyoncé and Jay-Z: Everything Is Love

 
Apollo Brown & Locksmith: No Question

 
Johnny Marr: Call the Comet

 
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Druids journey across the McGillycuddy Reeks in Kerry by torchlight on their way to the ancient sacred summit, the Paps of Danú. Photograph: Valerie O’Sullivan A priest’s daughter’s potent pants and other summer solstice piseogs

Solstice is sacred to Aine, who is to Tantric sex what white water rafting is to a paddling pool

Through the looking glass of books
Ally Bunbury’s grandfather Eric Craigie by the lake he created Grandpa taught me the deep impression a grandparent can have
  • James Clarence Mangan, the rebel poet
  • Ulster says ‘Yes’: let’s hear it for talking – and listening
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton: Rich kid satire that misses the mark
Wolfe Tone to James Joyce: Ireland’s special relationship with Paris
Tara Flynn: Rage-In review – a caustic, compassionate plea for empathy
Edge of Chaos review: So, why is the political system failing?

TV & Radio

The Fourth Estate is a reassuring glamorisation of the tough talk of news media. Everyone is underslept and under pressure. Leads get spiked, sources get protected The Fourth Estate: The New York Times’s love/hate of Donald Trump

Review: This riveting All-the-Presidents-Men-style documentary ultimately plays Trump’s game

Catherine Corless follows the harrowing history of Julia Devaney, confined in Tuam Mother and Baby Home for most of her life. Photograph: Reuters/Peter Nicholls No Country For Women: dire consequences of silenced voices
'It was a severe Catholicism that had the most negative effect for women' 0:38 'It was a severe Catholicism that had the most negative effect for women'
  • ‘Ireland’s Wild Waste’ shows us just how filthy lucre can be
  • RTÉ investigates Ireland's booming waste industry

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

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
Kenyon Homfray, Forward Cut Close Contact Saddle, 1990. The Maker’s Hand – 50 years of the RDS Craft Awards
  • 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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Preparing for music festival season and a summer of setting up camp? This year’s Body&Soul theme is alchemy - the art and act of transformation - here's our guide to festival dressing for 2018

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2 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
3 Paul McCartney has announced he will release his first new music in four years in the form of a double A-side single. File photograph: Sophia Juliane Lydolph/EPA Paul McCartney releases two new songs and announces new album
4 Billy Joel: his Aviva Stadium gig on June 23rd will essentially be a giant singalong session Billy Joel at Aviva Stadium: Everything you need to know
5 Catherine Corless follows the harrowing history of Julia Devaney, confined in Tuam Mother and Baby Home for most of her life. Photograph: Reuters/Peter Nicholls No Country For Women: dire consequences of silenced voices
6 Cork Opera House chief executive Eibhlín Gleeson with UCC professor Jools Gilson The women transforming Cork into a city of art and culture
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 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
9 The Sitka spruce tree. Illustration: Michael Viney Ireland’s native woodlands are quietly disappearing
10 The Killers take to the stage at the RDS on June 26th. File photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Summer in the City at the RDS: everything you need to know
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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
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