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Spice Girls tour: Geri Horner, Mel C, Emma Bunton and Mel C will play Croke Park in Dublin on May 24th, 2019 Spice Girls to kick off 2019 reunion tour with Croke Park concert
  • Music
  • Sorcha Pollak
  • November 16, 2018, 09:11

Victoria Beckham will not rejoin 1990s pop group for first Irish show in 21 years

Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homeless Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homeless
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • November 16, 2018, 13:06

U2 singer records Simon & Garfunkel track with Saint Sister and others for McVerry Trust

Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’ Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 16, 2018, 05:00

The Frames frontman is in danger of becoming an elder statesman

All hail Stan Lee, master of the Marvel Universe All hail Stan Lee, master of the Marvel Universe
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 16, 2018, 05:00

Being a disciple of Marvel comics in their golden years was like belonging to a cult

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: ‘Merrie Land’ review – brilliant paean to Brexit Britain The Good, The Bad & The Queen: ‘Merrie Land’ review – brilliant paean to Brexit Britain
  • Music
  • Eamon Sweeney
  • November 16, 2018, 05:00

John Lewis Christmas ad stars Elton John and his sadly normal sitting room. Could it be real? John Lewis Christmas ad stars Elton John and his sadly normal sitting room. Could it be real?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Patrick Freyne
  • November 15, 2018, 11:05

No dyed purple swans? No jewelled obelisks? This is disappointing, writes Patrick Freyne

Sonny Knowles, popular entertainer for 60 years, dies Sonny Knowles, popular entertainer for 60 years, dies
  • Music
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • November 15, 2018, 15:08

The musician, showband singer and National Song Contest entrant has died aged 86

‘Toxic’ is revealed as Oxford’s word of the year 2018 ‘Toxic’ is revealed as Oxford’s word of the year 2018
  • Books
  • November 15, 2018, 13:31

And it applies to lots of things: toxic masculinity, politics, the degraded environment

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The Irish novel isn’t dead. It just smells funny The Irish novel isn’t dead. It just smells funny
  • Books
  • Rob Doyle
  • November 15, 2018, 06:00

Rob Doyle, editor of a new anthology, on Irish writers’ genre-rupturing freshness

Latest Film

‘Something in The Princess Bride affects people,” said Goldman William Goldman, screenwriter who insisted ‘Nobody knows anything’ dies at 87
What a way to make a livin’: Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in 9 to 5 (1980) Six of the best films to see this weekend
The movie quiz: Who has not directed Meryl Streep to an Oscar?
  • Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’
  • Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated

Film Reviews

Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, and Olivia Ancona in Suspiria (2018) Suspiria

 
Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda in the 1980 film 9 to 5. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 9 to 5

 
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 
Steven Gerrard: a man out of step with the mercenary, opportunistic world of contemporary football? Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Make Us Dream

 

Latest Music

Homeward Bound: Bono recorded his contribution to the single before going on stage for the third of U2’s four homecoming gigs last week. Photograph: Simone Joyner/Getty Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homeless

U2 singer records Simon & Garfunkel track with Saint Sister and others for McVerry Trust

Spice Girls tour: Geri Horner, Mel C, Emma Bunton and Mel C will play Croke Park in Dublin on May 24th, 2019 Spice Girls to kick off 2019 reunion tour with Croke Park concert
Sonny Knowles at the Olympia Theatre in 1988. Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty Images Sonny Knowles, popular entertainer for 60 years, dies
  • Hozier releases new single with powerful video. Shame about the song
  • Is it all over for U2? Bono tells fans the band are ‘going away now’

Album Reviews

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: Merrie Land

 
Mumford & Sons: Delta

 
Gerry O'Connor: Last Night's Joy

 
Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever

 
Ryley Walker: The Lillywhite Sessions

 
Imagine Dragons: Origins

 

Latest Books

The Baily lighthouse A labour of love to draw Ireland’s lighthouses

Most Irish lighthouses are painted white as their surroundings appear dark on the horizon

Lisa Harding: the narrative swerves from the here-and-now, from the real to the imagined, casting back to moments from a more palatable past to conjured glimpses of an unlikely future Harvesting is a fierce and heartbreaking tour de force
Sabina Higgins at the FirstLight ‘Mile in Memory Walk’ in St Anne’s Park, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Sabina Higgins: ‘Harvesting’ is a really important book that needs to be widely read
  • The Irish novel isn’t dead. It just smells funny
  • Buy ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover for €4.99 at Eason with ‘The Irish Times’ this Saturday

Book Reviews

I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche review: A gripping read
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: On Where Eagles Dare review
When the Hangman Came to Galway review: Grisly tales of crime and punishment
Middle England review: Delving into the heart of Brexit Britain

TV & Radio

Stormy Daniels: the actor will talk about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. Photograph: Yana Paskova/Getty Stormy Daniels on Ray D’Arcy, and all the best TV shows this weekend

Primal screaming in 1994, Ed Sheeran in concert and the return of I’m a Celebrity...

The John Lewis Christmas, The Boy and The Piano, features Elton John. Photograph: John Lewis & Partners/PA John Lewis Christmas ad stars Elton John and his sadly normal sitting room. Could it be real?
Growing Up, Live: Angela Scanlon is so quick-witted and unflappable that she ought to be the subject of further study Growing Up, Live: RTÉ’s own mad experiment in gene-splicing
  • Whistleblower: 'That's the tree I was going to hang myself from'
  • Maurice McCabe: He fought the law – and he won

Stage

Lauren Coe as Emma in Landmark Productions and the Everyman world premiere production of Asking for It by Louise O Neill. Photograph: Hugh O Conor This week’s theatre highlights

Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust

The School Days of Thaddeus K: the name of Blue Raincoat’s protagonist recalls the Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, whose seminal 1975 work The Dead Class made school a living hell The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time
Double Cross: Ian Toner in this Abbey-Lyric coproduction Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
  • The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
  • Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight

Art & Design

President Michael D Higgins with Fr Noel Barber SJ, at the National Gallery of Ireland, to mark the 25th anniversary of unveiling of Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’. Photograph: Maxwell Rolling Stones spent ‘ages’ admiring National Gallery’s Caravaggio, says President

Michael D Higgins helps celebrate 25 years since unveiling of ‘The Taking of Christ’

Maeve McCarthy, In the garden, oil on linen, Molesworth Gallery Twilight zones: finding a way home through the half-light
Ruth Ellis with her boyfriend David Blakely at the Little Club in London in 1955 Ruth Ellis: The model who smiled at her executioner
  • Art and craft: how beer packaging got creative
  • Art in focus: The Augurs I, II and III by Martin Healy

Unthinkable

Muslim praying in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Islam has ‘given rise to remarkably free societies as well as depressingly intolerant ones’. Photograph: AP/Muhammed Muheisen What can the West learn from the rest?

Unthinkable: Borrowing foreign ideas can expand our thinking, says Julian Baggini

‘My position is to recommend that people consider parenting a child with Down syndrome, if given the opportunity’. Photograph: iStock Is economics corrupting our idea of human worth?
Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?
  • What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
  • A ‘third way’ of looking at religion

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

Pearse House flats Photograph: Tom Honan Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'

Dublin city councillors move to allow demolition of Herbert Simms flats

British soldiers eating rations in the Ancre Valley in France during the Battle of the Somme, October 1916. Photograph: Lt. E Brooks/ IWM via Getty Images Armistice Day: The forgotten Sligo men who never came home from the war
French president Emmanuel Macron at a ceremony marking the centenary of the end of the first World War at the Douaumont Ossuary cemetery near Verdun. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AP First World War’s final hours: A French bugler sounded the ceasefire at 11am
  • Forgotten heroines: The Irish women who died in the first World War
  • Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought

Treibh

Luí na gréine. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Beo idir tonnta dorcha an Gheimhridh

Díth solais, údar ón Afraic agus seolta leabhar

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Seó mór na Gaeltachta, Aisling?, ar camchuairt
Niall Ferguson – staraí Ar bhuille na haon uaire déag
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  • Úrscéal mór de chuid Chinua Achebe le fáil i nGaeilge

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Most Read in Culture

1 Four men in a boat: Danny Sheehy, Brendan Begley, Glen Hansard and Liam Holden. “Danny told me, ‘If you can play a gig for three hours then you can row for six’” Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’
2 Explosive: Friedrich Nietzsche. Photograph: Culture Club/Getty Images I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche review: A gripping read
3 Michelle and Barack Obama dance upon his inauguration as US president on January 20th, 2009 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. File photograph: Justin Lane/EPA Michelle Obama: ‘It hurt me sometimes to think that Barack was not content with our life’
4 Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever review – he’s the sultan of storytelling
5 Homeward Bound: Bono recorded his contribution to the single before going on stage for the third of U2’s four homecoming gigs last week. Photograph: Simone Joyner/Getty Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homeless
6 Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, and Olivia Ancona in Suspiria (2018) Suspiria: The dullest coven on the face of the Earth
7 Spice Girls tour: Geri Horner, Mel C, Emma Bunton and Mel C will play Croke Park in Dublin on May 24th, 2019 Spice Girls to kick off 2019 reunion tour with Croke Park concert
8 ‘Something in The Princess Bride affects people,” said Goldman William Goldman, screenwriter who insisted ‘Nobody knows anything’ dies at 87
9 What a way to make a livin’: Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in 9 to 5 (1980) Six of the best films to see this weekend
10 Achill Island sheep farmer Martin Calvey: overall winner of the Farming for Nature awards. Photograph: Johnny White Ireland’s eco-farmers emerge from the hedgerows
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(Original Caption) 'Germany: World War I Armistice: Officers celebrate at captured German canteen.' In reality, the industrial nature of the slaughter destroyed all the notions of individual heroism and chivalry. Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought
Leo Varadkar is hoisted on shoulders after being elected as leader of Fine Gael at the Mansion House, Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times ‘Leo Varadkar: A Very Modern Taoiseach’ is shallow, flimsy and exaggerated
Spike Lee at the premiere of his new film ‘BlacKkKlansman’ in California. “I hope that this film can give some little extra push or touch or anything to get people to register to vote.” Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’

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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
The Book Club Click to join in the discussion about this month's book, Harvesting by Lisa Harding
 
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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Bono and Adam Clayton on stage... Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times In pictures: U2 at 3Arena, Dublin
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