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Paranoid, belligerent Tony Martin, played by Steve Pemberton Muted drama ventures inside the mind of the homeowner who killed an Irish Traveller
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 19, 2018, 14:26

TV review: ‘The Interrogation of Tony Martin’ explores a shooting in Norfolk in 1999

Aim of ‘I’m a Celebrity’ 2018: Convince Dec he is still hilarious without Ant Aim of ‘I’m a Celebrity’ 2018: Convince Dec he is still hilarious without Ant
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 19, 2018, 10:55

Holly Willoughby – Ant McPartlin’s replacement for series 18 – is not allowed to be funny

Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all? Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 19, 2018, 10:46

There has been a stunning variety of screen Santas. But one outshines them all

Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 19, 2018, 15:25

The singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of suffering

Charlie Steen of Shame: ‘Touring eventually broke my mind’ Charlie Steen of Shame: ‘Touring eventually broke my mind’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • November 19, 2018, 05:00

Wiry frontman of the angry young London punks on Brexit, mental health and sexism

12 of the best shows on TV this week 12 of the best shows on TV this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • November 18, 2018, 06:00

Miriam O’Callaghan on women today, RTÉjr’s fairy tale, and a French Boogie Nights

Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’ Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • November 17, 2018, 06:00

‘He was telling me not to see my friends . . . I thought that was love’

Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames
  • Heritage
  • Manchán Magan
  • November 17, 2018, 06:00

We can reclaim Ballypitmave, and thousands of other names, or let them fossilise

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  • Patrick Freyne
  • November 17, 2018, 05:00

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Latest Film

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: terrible, but features an eight-year-old Pia Zadora as a Martian child Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?
“Obviously on set you can’t have real arrows flying around.” Above, Taron Egerton with Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood Taron Egerton: ‘You have to bet on yourself in this game’
‘Something in The Princess Bride affects people,” said Goldman William Goldman, screenwriter who insisted ‘Nobody knows anything’ dies at 87
  • Six of the best films to see this weekend
  • The movie quiz: Who has not directed Meryl Streep to an Oscar?

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

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

 
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 

Latest Music

Shame are wary of being tagged a “political” band. Photograph: Jordan Hughes Charlie Steen of Shame: ‘Touring eventually broke my mind’

Wiry frontman of the angry young London punks on Brexit, mental health and sexism

Matthew Crossan, flanked by his Touts bandmates: “Exile and The Stones in general have taught me more than I could put into words.” This Album Changed My Life: The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. (1972)
Gavin Bryars’ ‘Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ always gets a response, if not always positive Gavin Bryars: ‘I haven’t reached 100 yet, so I’m still relatively young’
  • Florence drama and three nights of Interpol intrigue
  • New artist of the week: Marc Rebillet

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

A collage of the 141 longlisted titles International Dublin Literary Award: 10 Irish books on 2019 longlist

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid leads nominations for world’s most valuable literary prize

Brian J Falconer: Harvesting has taught me that human trafficking is devastating for all those affected on every level: psychological, spiritual and physical Harvesting: a film in the making
Gitta Sereny looked Stangl in the eye. And in doing so she challenges us to look at ourselves. In praise of older books: Into that Darkness by Gitta Sereny (1974)
  • ‘I spent my time at a desk, writing. Or not writing’
  • Matthew Sweeney’s final works show the power of suggestion

Book Reviews

Twelve Thousand Days: A memoir nobody would want to write
The History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature: telling a bigger, truer story
A Radical History of the World review: Seeking a steampunk revolution
Becoming by Michelle Obama review: a highflying outsider’s view

TV & Radio

Paranoid, belligerent Tony Martin, played by Steve Pemberton Muted drama ventures inside the mind of the homeowner who killed an Irish Traveller

TV review: ‘The Interrogation of Tony Martin’ explores a shooting in Norfolk in 1999

“I’ve never done it with a girl before,” Dec Donnelly says to new co-host Holly Willoughby Aim of ‘I’m a Celebrity’ 2018: Convince Dec he is still hilarious without Ant
Managing the seamy family business: Vanessa Demouy in The Money Shot 12 of the best shows on TV this week
  • Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’
  • Joe Duffy and Myles Dungan make hidden history a thing of the past

Stage

Woman Undone: a familiar trajectory of abuse, self-medication, self-harm and, eventually, recovery Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction

The singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of suffering

Gig of the Week: The Great Gatsby is one marvellous party
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
  • The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time
  • Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism

Art & Design

On of the phpotographs that for part of My Magnetic North, by Gary Coyle Art in Focus: My Magnetic North, Gary Coyle

The latest instalment in his reflections on identity, place, death, memory – and demons within and without

Father and son: part of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting The Swing, and on the set of the Jean Renoir film A Day in the Country. Original photographs courtesy Musée d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou Lasting impression: Matching Renoir’s films with his father’s masterpieces
Bell X1 leave the stage in Dublin. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ruth Medjber: ‘I don’t need a therapist, because I have a camera’
  • Rolling Stones spent ‘ages’ admiring National Gallery’s Caravaggio, says President
  • Twilight zones: finding a way home through the half-light

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

Poulnabrone dolmen in Co Clare. Photograph: iStock Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames

We can reclaim Ballypitmave, and thousands of other names, or let them fossilise

Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
The restaurant at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Dermot Barry When Dublin Airport got a space-age restaurant
  • Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'
  • Armistice Day: The forgotten Sligo men who never came home from the war

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1 Roxy Jacenko’s book bills itself as a ‘no-bullshit guide to PR, social media and building your brand’ ‘Never fails to disappoint’: Book pulped after cover misprint
2 “I’ve never done it with a girl before,” Dec Donnelly says to new co-host Holly Willoughby Aim of ‘I’m a Celebrity’ 2018: Convince Dec he is still hilarious without Ant
3 Aisling Byrne, domestic abuse survivor, features in Tabú, Ag Teacht Slán: ““Even with the safety order in place, what she calls the psychological torture continued. “I would wake up and he’d be standing over me.” Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’
4 A collage of the 141 longlisted titles International Dublin Literary Award: 10 Irish books on 2019 longlist
5 Poulnabrone dolmen in Co Clare. Photograph: iStock Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames
6 James Joyce with his parents in 1888. Photograph: Marka/UIG via Getty Images Colm Toibin on the mothers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
7 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: terrible, but features an eight-year-old Pia Zadora as a Martian child Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?
8 Woman Undone: a familiar trajectory of abuse, self-medication, self-harm and, eventually, recovery Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction
9 Paranoid, belligerent Tony Martin, played by Steve Pemberton Muted drama ventures inside the mind of the homeowner who killed an Irish Traveller
10 A history of Ireland in our favourite words: 22 – leprechaun. Their place in Irish folklore was solidified by the 1959 Disney film Darby O’Gill and the Little People Up to 90: Ireland in our favourite words and phrases
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Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
(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

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