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Pillow Queens: 'An antidote to people who are up their own holes' Pillow Queens: ‘We’re better on a big stage because we already think we’re famous’
  • Music
  • Una Mullally
  • September 26, 2020, 06:00

With their debut album In Waiting, the Dublin band’s world is about to get bigger

The Books Quiz: Who wrote The Naked Lunch? The Books Quiz: Who wrote The Naked Lunch?
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • September 27, 2020, 06:00

Plus: What was the first name of the Brontë sisters’ brother

Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words
  • Books
  • Kerri Ni Dochartaigh
  • September 27, 2020, 06:00

Review: Brian Dillon shines the light down on words, at a time when they have never felt more burning

TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • September 27, 2020, 06:00

Honour, Life, The Comey Rule, The Next Normal, Graham Norton, Emily in Paris

Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump: ‘A mediocre impression and possibly a great performance’ Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump: ‘A mediocre impression and possibly a great performance’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Hugh Linehan
  • September 25, 2020, 06:47

Critics expect US president to hate actor’s take in The Comey Rule. But he did it anyway

Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’ Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’
  • Books
  • Patrick Freyne
  • September 26, 2020, 06:00

The author on the poetry of religion and the heart attack that gave him a lift

Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’ Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • September 26, 2020, 05:00

Alex Winter on friendship with Keanu Reeves, the risky new film and the fun side of fame

Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story
  • Books
  • Diarmaid Ferriter
  • September 26, 2020, 06:00

Book review: in Here’s the Story, the former president tells a lot, but not all, about her extraordinary career

Sufjan Stevens: ‘We didn’t just wake up with a celebrity president. It was cultivated’ Sufjan Stevens: ‘We didn’t just wake up with a celebrity president. It was cultivated’
  • Music
  • Siobhan Long
  • September 26, 2020, 05:30

Stevens’s new album The Ascension is a seething commentary on life as he knows it now

‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’ ‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’
  • Stage
  • Patrick Freyne
  • September 26, 2020, 05:00

Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strike

Latest Film

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Photograph: Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’
Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Bill & Ted Face the Music Four new films to see this weekend
Jack Nicholson in Chinatown: Faye Dunaway noticed director Roman Polanski’s enjoyment of the scene in which she is slapped by Nicholson. The Movie Quiz: What is the last line in Chinatown?
  • How Goodfellas and the gangster class of 1990 changed Hollywood
  • Jackie Stallone, Celebrity Big Brother star, mother of Sylvester, dies aged 98

TV & Radio

Jessica Brown Findlay in Brave New World, starting Friday on Sky One TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week

Honour, Life, The Comey Rule, The Next Normal, Graham Norton, Emily in Paris

Brendan Gleeson stars as Donald Trump in The Comey Rule 2:20 Brendan Gleeson stars as Donald Trump in The Comey Rule
Franny and Yasmin meet on First Love. A truly soul-destroying spectacle. Photograph: Virgin Media One The pandemic has split us into two distinct camps: The Couples vs The Singles
  • Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump: ‘A mediocre impression and possibly a great performance’
  • Dermot and Dave’s Dermot Whelan's mindfulness exposed as sly act of self promotion

Latest Books

The Books Quiz: Who wrote The Naked Lunch?

Plus: What was the first name of the Brontë sisters’ brother

The screams of delight of the committee could be heard from afar when one of the first authors agreeing to be part of the festival was Gabriel Byrne. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Dingle Literary Festival goes global
Mary Shelley Frankenstein: A postmodern novel written long before modernism
  • Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’
  • The Music of What Happens: The Purple House Anthology of New Irish Writing

Film Reviews

Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes Enola Holmes

 
Ethan Hawke in Tesla Tesla

 
Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze in Miss Juneteenth Miss Juneteenth

 
Bill & Ted Bill and Ted Face the Music

 

Latest Music

Felix Lutalo stands outside his music store in the bus park in Gulu, northern Uganda, holding a Westlife compilation he’s selling. Photograph: Sally Hayden. Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’

The Irish boyband is incredibly popular across Africa - so why have they never toured there?

Pillow Queens: 'An antidote to people who are up their own holes' Pillow Queens: ‘We’re better on a big stage because we already think we’re famous’
Sufjan Stevens: ‘This is the first time I’ve felt the need to speak very clearly and coherently about how I feel about about our present circumstances.’ Sufjan Stevens: ‘We didn’t just wake up with a celebrity president. It was cultivated’
  • The Music Quiz: What song did the BBC say was 'too depressing' to play?
  • Laura Veirs: ‘I had a feminist awakening’

Book Reviews

Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words
Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story
Angrynomics: charting a new course to redress imbalance between capital and labour
The Abstainer: Gripping tale of violence, betrayal and vice

Stage

Matthew Malone in Fishamble’s Embargo, part of the Dublin Theatre Festival ‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’

Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strike

A Thousand Ways: A Phonecall is an intriguing response to the challenges faced by the theatre in recent months. Photograph: Maria Baranova A Thousand Ways – A Phone Call review: An experience for two strangers
People celebrating the independence of Ireland on O’Connell bridge before midnight on Easter Sunday, 1949. Photograph: Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
  • Mustard review: One-woman show set to resonate with audiences
  • DruidGregory review: Captivating performance rooted in history

Art & Design

One of Jeanette Lowe’s pictures exploring Dublin inner-city street scenes. Photograph: Jeanette Lowe Berlin exhibition offers a global audience a window into modern Irish life

The work in Ireland in Frame provides lessons for a Republic in the grip of a pandemic

hillen2showcase Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
John Gerrard’s Mirror Pavilion ‘Even in a pre-Covid world, Mirror Pavilion would have been spectacular’
  • Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home
  • Frank McDonald: What’s not to like about Dublin’s new Kevin St development? Quite a lot

Unthinkable

Anti-racism campaigners taking part in a rally last year outside Google headquarters on Barrow Street in Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times Cancel culture: can you defend people who say unpopular things?

Unthinkable: Rival political philosophers can bring perspective to our current debates

Illustrations from The Philosopher Queens: Diotima, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Warnock and Anita L Allen. Images: Emmy Smith/The Philosopher Queens The forgotten women in philosophy: time to set the record straight
Members of the Khomani San community strike traditional poses in the Southern Kalahari desert in South Africa. Non-western societies put greater emphasis on familial relationships and inherited social roles rather than personal achievement. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Are you Weird? Answer this question to find out
  • How do you stop male entitlement?
  • What are words worth: do poets and philosophers speak the same language?

Heritage

Dr Siobhán Doyle, TU Dublin lecturer and GAA Museum tour guide, at the launch of the GAA Museum’s Bloody Sunday centenary events series. Photograph: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile The GAA must ensure Bloody Sunday is remembered appropriately

The association’s commemorative plans could transform our understanding of the 1920 event

The Book of Kells and its display case in the newly-refurbished treasury in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin. Photograph Nick Bradshaw New Book of Kells set-up allows display of some pages for first time in decades
Proinsias Ó Rathaille, grandson of The O’Rahilly, outside the vandalised house of The O’Rahilly on Herbert Park, Ballsbridge. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill O’Rahilly house demolition supported by council
  • What did the early Irish sound like? Researchers hope to find out
  • Forgotten slavery in Australia: The South Sea Islanders

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

Slán leis an mBunscoil curtha i gcló ag Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta agus Clódóirí CL Aos óg na Gaeltachta: éist lena nglór!

Tá leabhar foilsithe le daltaí sa Ghaeltacht faoin deireadh obann a cuireadh lena dtréimhse sa bhunscoil

Scrúdú acadúil atá ann a dhéanann tástáil ar chumas an dalta ag deireadh phróiseas foghlama léinn ón mbunscoil tríd an meánscoil ar réimse ábhar réasúnta cúng de réir modhanna atá oscailte, cothrom, tomhaiste agus oibiachtúil chomh fada is a thig. Sin an méid. Anó an algartaim
Ar an bportach: Sleánadóir ag baint móna i gCo na Gaillimhe. Is le sleán, uirlis ar dhéanamh láí, a bhaintear an mhóin. Grianghraf le caoinchead Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann/Kathleen Price. Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan mhóin?
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Suppose a Sentence author Brian Dillon. Each chapter begins with a single sentence Dillon was drawn to and copied down, in notebooks over the years and now offers up to us, with his singular, remarkable exploration of it. Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words
In her new memoir Mary McAleese is both Catholic Church insider and outsider. Photograph: Patrick Browne/ The Irish Times Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story
Eavan Boland’s death is is a huge loss to Irish and world poetry. Drawn by Dearbhla Kelly Poetry: new works by Eavan Boland, Bhanu Kapil, Ranjit Hoskote and Róisín Tierney

Most Read in Culture

1 Michael Harding lives on the border between Co Roscommon and Co Leitrim, having bought the land 25 years ago. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’
2 Brendan Gleeson delivers ‘a mediocre impression and possibly a great performance’ as Donald Trump, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Photograph: Showtime/CBS Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump: ‘A mediocre impression and possibly a great performance’
3 In her new memoir Mary McAleese is both Catholic Church insider and outsider. Photograph: Patrick Browne/ The Irish Times Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story
4 Felix Lutalo stands outside his music store in the bus park in Gulu, northern Uganda, holding a Westlife compilation he’s selling. Photograph: Sally Hayden. Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’
5 Padraic Rowan in Das Rheingold auf dem Parkdeck, a production of Rhinegold on the roof of the Deutsche Opera Berlin car park. Photograph: Bernd Uhlig ‘The arts in Ireland are a luxury – in Germany they’re a necessity’
6 Pillow Queens: 'An antidote to people who are up their own holes' Pillow Queens: ‘We’re better on a big stage because we already think we’re famous’
7 Suppose a Sentence author Brian Dillon. Each chapter begins with a single sentence Dillon was drawn to and copied down, in notebooks over the years and now offers up to us, with his singular, remarkable exploration of it. Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words
8 Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Photograph: Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’
9 It comes as a bit of shock when Dermot Whelan extols the virtues of meditation to Newstalk host Andrea Gilligan Dermot and Dave’s Dermot Whelan's mindfulness exposed as sly act of self promotion
10 Róisín Murphy: ‘I had to pull me horns in, as my mother would say.’ Photograph: Getty Róisín Murphy: ‘My Irish family were wheeler-dealers, laying roads, collecting antiques’
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The Music Quiz: What song did the BBC say was 'too depressing' to play? The Music Quiz: What song did the BBC say was 'too depressing' to play?

Plus: Who sang ‘you in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty’

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
 

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