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Kingdom Serial pleasures: The TV series that got us through lockdown
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • May 8, 2021, 05:00

Zombies ... giant robots ... racing cars. Irish Times writers share their pandemic binges

St Vincent: ‘I feel the 1970s are very similar to where we are now’ St Vincent: ‘I feel the 1970s are very similar to where we are now’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • May 8, 2021, 05:00

Annie Clark is reclaiming the story of her dad’s incarceration on her funky new album

Lisa McInerney: ‘I’m a hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though’ Lisa McInerney: ‘I’m a hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though’
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • May 9, 2021, 06:00

The writer feels nervous as she publishes her third Cork-set novel, The Rules of Revelation

It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience
  • Stage
  • Hugh Linehan
  • May 8, 2021, 10:03

Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?

If we can’t agree on a name, does Northern Ireland even exist? If we can’t agree on a name, does Northern Ireland even exist?
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 8, 2021, 05:00

Region? Statelet? The difficulty is separating an Ulster identity from a Northern Irish one

Louise Nealon: ‘There is an overwhelming silence and shame in Irish culture’ Louise Nealon: ‘There is an overwhelming silence and shame in Irish culture’
  • Books
  • Edel Coffey
  • May 8, 2021, 06:00

She never thought she’d be good enough to write, but her debut novel sold for a six-figure sum

When girls scream together: A front row view of the fangirl experience When girls scream together: A front row view of the fangirl experience
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • May 8, 2021, 05:00

The documentary I Used to Be Normal is a welcome riposte to the ususal condescension

Patrick Freyne: Give the Galactic Empire a break. They’re just trying to get things done Patrick Freyne: Give the Galactic Empire a break. They’re just trying to get things done
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • May 7, 2021, 05:00

I’d like to see a David Simon-helmed show dealing with galactic housing policy

Dylan Moran: ‘I don’t give a f**k about PC. The decisions I take about what I say are mine’ Dylan Moran: ‘I don’t give a f**k about PC. The decisions I take about what I say are mine’
  • Stage
  • Brian Logan
  • May 7, 2021, 06:00

‘I’ve offended people, I regret it and I’ll probably do it again,’ says the comedian

Claire Byrne isn’t just a rigorous interviewer. She’s a rigorous staycationer Claire Byrne isn’t just a rigorous interviewer. She’s a rigorous staycationer
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • May 7, 2021, 05:00

Radio: The RTÉ host’s trademark efficiency even extends to her leisure time planning

Latest Film

Some Kind of Heaven Four new films to stream this week
Various psychologists have suggested that girls get together and scream at boys as an expression of their fears about reaching sexual maturity When girls scream together: A front row view of the fangirl experience
Italian poster art for Sergio Leone’s C’era una volta il west (Once Upon a Time in the West) The Movie Quiz: Pick out the non-Sergio Leone film title – in Italian
  • Steve Zahn: ‘I’ve never been a slacker. I live on a farm’
  • Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning actor, dies aged 89

TV & Radio

TV guide: 10 of the best shows to watch this week, starting tonight

Comedian Ardal O’Hanlon tries to find out how Irish people got their potty mouths

Kingdom Serial pleasures: The TV series that got us through lockdown
Claire Byrne: not one for freewheeling on-air levity Claire Byrne isn’t just a rigorous interviewer. She’s a rigorous staycationer
  • Ian Wright: Home Truths – Abused in childhood, a black hole of suffering and rage
  • The Big DIY Challenge: A ropey construction that just about hangs together

Latest Books

Reflections in a Golden Eye: Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando in the 1967 film. Photograph: FPA/UA via Getty The books quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

Who wrote Reflections in a Golden Eye, the film of which starred Liz Taylor and Marlon Brando?

Lisa McInerney: ‘I’m supposed to be a cool writer – I want to be like Mr Banville who just doesn’t care.’ Photograph: Brid O’Donovan Lisa McInerney: ‘I’m a hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though’
Paddy Murray has worked for various Irish newspapers for 46 years. Browser: On the road in old Ireland, and an accidental journalist
  • Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945) by Carlo Levi: A remarkable memoir
  • Long, hot summers: The danger and drama of heatwaves in literature

Film Reviews

Sasha Knight and Steve Zahn Cowboys

 
Mélanie Laurent Oxygen

 
Some Kind of Heaven: There’s a compelling soap opera bubbling under the sterile surface Some Kind of Heaven

 
Who are you? Apples

 

Latest Music

St Vincent: ‘I feel the 1970s are very similar to where we are now’

Annie Clark is reclaiming the story of her dad’s incarceration on her funky new album

David Kitt: ‘During lockdown I went through a big Joni Mitchell phase.’ David Kitt: ‘I listened to Irish acts when I was on my own in a new city, craving home’
Model and singer Nick Kamen. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns Nick Kamen, model and singer, dies at 59 after a long illness
  • Britney Spears: Documentaries about my life are ‘so hypocritical’
  • The Music Quiz: Which Irish punk band did Rory Gallagher once record with?

Book Reviews

Lean Fall Stand: Eloquent mapping of geographer’s disorientation
Stalin’s War: Disorted history of a complex second World War
Albert and the Whale: scintillating prose on Dürer but poorly illustrated
A Little Devil in America: The double-edged nature of black performance

Stage

Stephen Rea and (reflected) Judith Roddy in The Visiting Hour by Frank McGuinness, ‘streaming from the Gate auditorium’. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience

Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?

Drama and theatre studies students from NUI Galway perform in Nochtaithe (Unveiled), an artistic response to the survivor testimonies gathered and archived as part of NUI Galway’s Tuam oral history project. Photograph: Aengus McMahon Scandal, silence, shame: the careful retelling of a buried story
Irish comedian Dylan Moran. Photograph: Bryan Thomas/New York Times Dylan Moran: ‘I don’t give a f**k about PC. The decisions I take about what I say are mine’
  • What happens when a theatre actor loses a year?
  • All the world is a van: Shakespeare in a time of Covid

Art & Design

The painting was originally attributed in the online catalogue to a 17th-century artist who was a notable follower of Caravaggio. Photograph: Handout ‘The owners’ faces turned pale. They were speechless’: How a €3m painting was discovered

A small oil painting that hung in a home in Spain for decades turned out to be a Caravaggio

Three Graces by Gabriel Hayes on Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin. Ireland’s sculptures: Where are the women?
Frank Gehry at his architecture studio in Los Angeles. Photograph: Erik Carter/The New York Times Frank Gehry: ‘I'm just free to build, now I don't have to worry about fees’
  • The mystery of the Salvator Mundi: Where has Leonardo da Vinci’s €375m painting gone?
  • The Khmer Rouge controversy: Why colourising old photos is always a falsification of history

Unthinkable

What ‘shows itself’ when you consider a cup of coffee, the phenomenologist asks. Photograph: Getty images Can you suspend belief in everything? An intellectual challenge

Unthinkable: Phenomenology may make your head hurt but it’s trying ‘to teach us to see again’

Fr Sean McDonagh: ‘I am 77 on my next birthday and I ask myself will I end up in some care home where I am being taken up out of bed by a robot each morning?’ Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill 3:48 ‘Should we be buying from Amazon rather than working to keep a place like Nenagh alive?’
Suki Finn, philosopher and editor of Women of Ideas: “The metaphysics of pregnancy is of great importance, not only to pregnant metaphysicians, but to all of us, given that we are all the result of a pregnancy.” Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?
  • Do we really care about right and wrong, or are we just virtue signalling?
  • Telling men to open up is not enough – teach them how

Heritage

‘Moore Street and its immediate surroundings have suffered from decades of neglect,’ said the Green Party. File photograph: The Irish Times Conservation protections planned for Moore Street

Councillors agree emergency motion to initiate change to Dublin city development plan

The treaty makers, December 6th, 1921: Including Arthur Griffith, Eamonn Duggan, Michael Collins, Robert Barton; standing, Gavan Duffy. Photograph: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two
The historical Éire sign in Howth which is being restored. File photograph: Enda O’Dowd Work to restore Éire sign from second World War begins at Howth Head
  • The legacy of bitterness caused by the 1981 hunger strikes continues
  • What Bobby Sands means to me: ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’

Michael Viney's Another Life

Gannet with fish: Anyone who has watched the birds plunging vertically from the sky to seize mackerel deep beneath the surface must marvel at their anatomy. Illustration: Michael Viney Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbers

Michael Viney: Irish numbers have more than doubled since the counts of Operation Seafarer in 1970

Fox with prey: The urban adult is “thin and exhausted” from finding and ferrying food to its cubs. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: The fox as he dwells among us
Choughs. Illustration: Michael Viney The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
  • Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows
  • Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffin

Tuarascáil

Is cinnte go mbeidh athruithe bunúsacha agus smaointeoireacht nua ag teastáil má táthar chun freastal a dhéanamh go cóir ar phobal na Gaeilge. Gá le héiteas dátheangach a thógáil ón mbun arís

Baintear úsáid as seirbhísí i nGaeilge nuair a bhíonn fáil orthu

Dhá Thaobh na Sráide
’Socraíodh an tuarascáil a leagan faoi bhráid Thithe an Oireachtais de bharr nár chuir an Garda Síochána moltaí imscrúdaithe a rinneadh i 2011 i bhfeidhm’ Grianghraf: Getty Easpa Gardaí le Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht tuairiscithe
  • Fáilte Isteach!
  • An caidreamh siombóiseach idir crainn agus daoine

Sponsored

Business to Arts winners: the rigour that sets these arts partnerships apart Business to Arts winners: the rigour that sets these arts partnerships apart

An Post with the Irish Book Awards, and Accenture with Paul Harrison and Fuchsia MacAree show true commitment and follow-through on both artistic and business objectives

Dublin Dance Festival launches Summer 2021 Edition Dublin Dance Festival launches Summer 2021 Edition

Dublin Dance Festival is back with a new selection of fresh, daring and courageous dance online from May 18th-30th, including new and pioneering dance performances from trailblazing artists from Ireland and around the world; glimpses behind the scenes; and moments for families, friends, artists and communities to connect, move and play

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Jon McGregor: has a reputation for being a writer’s writer, and frequently stuns with how eloquent he can make ineloquence. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Lean Fall Stand: Eloquent mapping of geographer’s disorientation
Covid-19 and its human, psychological, social and economic impacts are wholly manmade. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Reading Covid-19 round-up: Focusing on the failures of science and government
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Photograph: Jan Sonnenmair/NBCU Photo Bank A Little Devil in America: The double-edged nature of black performance

Most Read in Culture

1 Author Louise Nealon: Despite her obvious talent, she encountered much discouragement along the way. Louise Nealon: ‘There is an overwhelming silence and shame in Irish culture’

2 ‘It would require an anthropologist of some diligence to weed out the fewer Northern Irishisms from the many Ulsterisms.’ Photograph: Getty If we can’t agree on a name, does Northern Ireland even exist?

3 Kingdom Serial pleasures: The TV series that got us through lockdown

4 Claire Byrne: not one for freewheeling on-air levity Claire Byrne isn’t just a rigorous interviewer. She’s a rigorous staycationer

5 Lisa McInerney: ‘I’m supposed to be a cool writer – I want to be like Mr Banville who just doesn’t care.’ Photograph: Brid O’Donovan Lisa McInerney: ‘I’m a hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though’

6 Various psychologists have suggested that girls get together and scream at boys as an expression of their fears about reaching sexual maturity When girls scream together: A front row view of the fangirl experience

7 Edward Carson inspects in 1914 a parade of armed Ulster Volunteers, the Ulster unionist paramilitary force, organised by the Ulster Unionist Council and founded by Carson. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images Defining the ‘sub-polity’ that is Northern Ireland

8 St Vincent: ‘I feel the 1970s are very similar to where we are now’

9 TV guide: 10 of the best shows to watch this week, starting tonight

10 Ryan’s World: Ryan Kaji ‘unboxes’ and reviews toys on his YouTube channel. Photograph: Kaji family/YouTube Nine-year-old earns €24m as the highest-paid YouTuber of 2020

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Music Quiz

The Music Quiz: Which Irish punk band did Rory Gallagher once record with? The Music Quiz: Which Irish punk band did Rory Gallagher once record with?

Plus: Kurt Cobain’s best in the world and the hard rockers condemned by Russia

Macnas, whose parades are a core part of their work, receive this year’s special tribute award. Photograph: Brian Arthur
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

The Books Podcast

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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
 

Galleries

Perfect shot: the murmuration of starlings that James Crombie photographed over Lough Ennell, in Co Westmeath, on Tuesday evening. It became the front-page photograph of The Irish Times of March 4th, 2021. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho Murmurations over Lough Ennell
Christopher Plummer holds his Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Beginners in the press room at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California in February 2012. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images Christopher Plummer: A career in pictures
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