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The female experience is at the heart of Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s work, the all-consuming passion in Ceathrúintí Mháire Ní Ógáin, maternal love in Codladh an Ghaiscígh and the fiercely eloquent poems she wrote upon the death of her husband, Conor Cruise O’Brien. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh In praise of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
  • March 2, 2015

Irish Women Writers: ‘For a woman writing in Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s, it was bold and brave to assert female sexual desire. Women poets haven’t stopped writing about it since!’

Watch: Hozier's 'Someone New' starring Natalie Dormer Watch: Hozier's 'Someone New' starring Natalie Dormer
  • March 2, 2015

The writers behind Hozier's new video, 'Someone New', chat about the writing process and the change from small productions to big studios

Slideshow: inside the 'mosque above the shop' and other Sacred Spaces Slideshow: inside the 'mosque above the shop' and other Sacred Spaces
  • Frank Miller
  • March 2, 2015

Sacred Spaces explores the creative re-appropriation of existing space into religious space, and the adaptation of existing sacred space for new uses

In praise of Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, by Declan Kiberd In praise of Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, by Declan Kiberd
  • Declan Kiberd
  • March 2, 2015

Irish Women Writers: ‘She invents a new tense, neither past nor present, which is a kind of “women’s time”, rejecting all ideas of authority, power and deference’

The Unthanks: the light and the dark of English folk music The Unthanks: the light and the dark of English folk music
  • Lauren Murphy
  • March 2, 2015

The group have been singing the canon for a decade – but what happens now that they are making their own music?

An Irishman's Diary

Her diaries (preserved among the Dillon papers in TCD) are a testament of her own unique unfolding as a remarkable person. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien An Irishman’s Diary on Elizabeth Mathew, wife of John Dillon
  • Heritage
  • Brendan Ó Cathaoir
  • March 2, 2015

An informative and acute observer

The Treachery of Images by René Magritte An Irishman’s Diary on pipe smoking
George Boole: had a fragile constitution, and Ireland’s damp climate didn’t help it Call the Boolean Operator – An Irishman’s Diary on language, logic, and the marriage referendum
  • Running for dear life – An Irishman’s Diary about Bressie, Michael Harding, and Tarmac
  • Pole Star – An Irishman’s Diary about the famine relief work of Pawel Strzelecki

Unthinkable

Marine Le Pen spoke about freedom recently while calling for restrictions on religious freedom. Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Unthinkable: How good are we at spotting propaganda?
  • Culture
  • Joe Humphreys
  • February 24, 2015

Some of the most subtle forms of propaganda spring from the false idea that people can be neutral or objective, argues American philosopher Jason Stanley

‘America NPR is unquestionably more intellectually evolved that CNN or Fox.’ Above, Bill O’Reilly on Fox News Unthinkable: Is the media just an arm of the market?
The unending masks of love: Lady Gaga’s Poker Face Unthinkable: Does thinking about love kill the passion?
  • Unthinkable: Why Charles Darwin is a threat to religion
  • Unthinkable: Is mystical thinking a cop-out?

Latest Film

A still from the film, ‘The Cormack Brothers’. In the scene, a family is evicted on the orders of land agent, John Ellis, and the property burned The village that came together to make a film about injustice
  • Film
  • Damian Cullen
  • March 1, 2015
‘White God’ director Kornél Mundruczó: “It’s a fairy tale, like Walt Disney or the Grimm brothers”
It Follows review: a brilliantly unsettling, determinedly awkward jump-shocker
  • The Second Best Marigold Hotel review: a ramshackle affair
  • Catch Me Daddy review: a ripping Yorkshire thriller

Michael Viney's Another Life

Delightfully alternative: Carabus problematicus, widespread on Ireland’s mountain heaths and moraines. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Beetle beauty and the beasts

Beetles are farmers’ friends, a sign of insect diversity and great recyclers of nutrients

Still frozen: the fjord at Klaegbugt, in Germania Land, in northeastern Greenland. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: The Arctic’s icy foundations begin to shift
The stoat: distinctly Irish. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Consensus on Irish flora and fauna no longer changing at glacial pace
  • Another Life: I am living proof of the value of horticultural therapy
  • Another Life: Study to reveal Ireland’s deer population

Latest Music

Watch: Hozier's 'Someone New' starring Natalie Dormer
  • Music
  • March 2, 2015
Rachel and Betty Unthank: ‘If you’re not going to put yourself out there, what’s the point in living? The Unthanks: the light and the dark of English folk music
PKN are hoping to be the Finnish entry at the Eurovision: “We don’t want people to vote for us to feel sorry for us, we are not that different from everybody else – just normal guys with a mental handicap” Finnish punk band with learning difficulties set sights on Eurovision
  • Schoolgirl Molly Sterling to represent Ireland in Eurovision
  • Quick listen: The week’s top tunes

Latest Books

The female experience is at the heart of Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s work, the all-consuming passion in Ceathrúintí Mháire Ní Ógáin, maternal love in Codladh an Ghaiscígh and the fiercely eloquent poems she wrote upon the death of her husband, Conor Cruise O’Brien. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh In praise of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
  • Books
The tomb of Art Ó Laoghaire: If ever a woman spoke across the centuries in tones of authentic love, that is Eibhlin Dubh in her lament for her murdered husband Art Ó Laoghaire in 1773. We know little enough about Eibhlín – almost as little as we do about Homer. It seems somehow appropriate that we have no picture of her. In praise of Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, by Declan Kiberd
Paula Meehan: “I was thrilled when she was announced as Ireland Professor of Poetry. In that role, she has set out her stall as being to join the street to the academy – I can think of no-one better placed to do so.” Photograph: Dave Meehan In praise of Paula Meehan, by Maureen Kennelly
  • Online reading is opening up a whole new world of connections

Albums

Ghostpoet: Shedding Skin | Album Review

 
Disasterpeace: It Follows | Soundtrack Review

 
Songhoy Blues: Music in Exile | Album Review

 
Pádraig Rynne’s Notify & Pauline Scanlon | Album Review

 
The Unthanks: Mount The Air | Album Review

 
Jakob Bro: Gefion | Album Review

 
Dukas: L’apprenti sorcier; La Péri; Symphony in C minorRTÉ NSO/Jean-Luc Tingaud | Album Review

 
Public Service Broadcasting: The Race for Space | Album Review

 

Screenwriter

Five films to catch in March
  • Donald Clarke

Things have fallen just a little quiet. But there are still treats to be had.

On The Record

The Gloaming take the room to roam
  • Jim Carroll

A report from the stalls on the second of The Gloaming's three sold-out shows at Dublin's National Concert Hall

  • Treibh
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Heritage
BLATHNAIDNICHOFAIGH-4KB_WEB Cruinniú, caint agus comhrá fud fad na tíre
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • February 25, 2015, 01:30

‘Ní dhéanann na leapacha gréine damáiste...an ndéanann?!’ Slán le dath bréige
  • Treibh
  • Caoimhe Ní Laighin
  • February 25, 2015, 01:20

Teastaíonn uaim a rá le mná na hÉireann gan donnú bréige a úsáid

  • 5 shares
Arm na Breataine in Áidin, Márta, 1967. grianghaf: getty images Cad as don chiníochas?
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • February 25, 2015, 01:15

Seirbhís mhíleata an doras trínar scaoileadh an ciníochas isteach

TUAR_GEN_J_WEB Idir Seachtain na Gaeilge agus seachain an Ghaeilge
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • February 25, 2015, 01:10

Imíonn an eagraíocht ach maireann an obair

  • 2 shares
Labhrás Ó Murchú. photo: frank miller/the irish times Gaeltacht Committee wants Irish promoted ‘more effectively’
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • February 24, 2015, 12:52

‘Respect and affection’ for Irish – Labhrás Ó Murchú

  • 1 comment
  • 7 shares
Rafael Ribó. photo: seán ó mainnín “Don’t allow Irish to become a political tool” – Catalan Ombudsman
  • Treibh
  • Maitiú Ó Coimín
  • February 20, 2015, 14:40

Maitiú Ó Coimín spoke to Rafael Ribó, the Catalan Ombudsman, about language rights in Catalonia and Ireland

  • 8 comments
  • 1 share
A_J_WEB Giorraíonn gáire bóthar
  • Treibh
  • Louise McCreesh
  • February 18, 2015, 01:20

Eachtraí iontacha ainnir Ard Mhacha san Áise

  • 1 comment
Winston Churchill. grianghraf: getty images Tír, Eolas agus Stair
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • February 18, 2015, 01:15

Níorbh ann do na ‘hOileáin Bhriotanacha’ riamh

  • 3 shares
Liadh Ní Riada. grianghraf: david sleator/the irish times ‘Stailc teanga’ beartaithe ag Feisire Eorpach, Liadh Ní Riada
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • February 18, 2015, 01:10

Cúrsaí teanga in Éirinn agus thar lear faoi chaibidil

SURTOUTDETABLEFROMKILKENNYCASTLE_WEB Auction Results
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 28, 2015, 01:00

A Native American costume which sold for €320,000 Native American costume makes €320,000 at Kilkenny auction
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 28, 2015, 01:00

Other ‘sleepers’ at lively auction included Chinese lots

  • 5 shares
Detail from a 19th century painted urn which has a guide of €2,500-€3,500 at Sheppard’s three-day sale which begins on Tuesday Interesting lots in opening spring season sale at Sheppard’s
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 28, 2015, 01:00

Revamped website will make auction browsing easier

PAULHENRYLANDSCAPECONNEMARAATWHYTES_WEB Paul Henry leads Whyte’s art auction
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 28, 2015, 01:00

‘Landscape Connemara’ painting was the top lot in art auction

Set of household crockery that belonged to the artist Francis Bacon was unsold (estimate £10,000-£15,000) Francis Bacon crockery fails to sell
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 21, 2015, 05:30

Auctions, fairs and results

Detail from ‘The Queen’s own Scottish Borderers Observe the King of Jews Appearing behind Seán McGuigan’s Sheep on the Fourth Sunday After Epiphany’ by Belfast artist Dermot Seymour, which has an estimated auction price of €1,500-€2,000 Dublin’s first major art auction of 2015
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 21, 2015, 05:00

Mix of Irish and international art at Whyte’s auction at RDS in Dublin

TAKASHIMURAKAMI-LIONELMESSIANDAUNIVERSEOFFLOWERS(2014)_WEB Paintings of Lionel Messi raise more than €900,000 for One in 11 campaign
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 21, 2015, 05:00

Works by Takashi Murakami and Damien Hirst sold at Sotheby’s fundraising auction

A set of forks which belonged to Jonathan Swift have green-stained ivory handles which carry the initials of the writer and his family coat of arms Jonathan Swift’s ‘two-pronged forks’ for auction
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 21, 2015, 04:30

Cutlery belonging to Anglo-Irish satirist and a portrait of Obama ancestor among mememtos of Ascendancy in fine art sale

  • 3 shares
The poster for ‘McLintock!’ is one of dozens of vintage posters on auction and is signed by Michael Wayne, John’s son A spanking old take on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • February 21, 2015, 02:00

Vintage poster for McLintock! – a 1963 Western “comedy” starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara – at Whyte’s auction

DI02BRENDANMONDAY_WEB An Irishman’s Diary on Elizabeth Mathew, wife of John Dillon
  • Heritage
  • Brendan Ó Cathaoir
  • March 2, 2015, 01:01

An informative and acute observer

Irish Roots: Digging the line between them and us
  • Heritage
  • John Grenham
  • March 2, 2015, 01:00

The Treachery of Images by René Magritte An Irishman’s Diary on pipe smoking
  • Heritage
  • Norman Freeman
  • February 28, 2015, 01:01

Pipe dreams

  • 6 shares
GETTYIMAGES_457483840_WEB Franco’s facism couldn’t kill Catalan. Peig’s prose couldn’t save Irish
  • Heritage
  • Richard Fitzpatrick
  • February 28, 2015, 01:00

As Seachtain na Gaeilge begins, could Ireland learn lessons from Barcelona, where 40 per cent of people speak Catalan as their everyday language?

  • 7 comments
  • 29 shares
George Boole: had a fragile constitution, and Ireland’s damp climate didn’t help it Call the Boolean Operator – An Irishman’s Diary on language, logic, and the marriage referendum
  • Heritage
  • Frank McNally
  • February 27, 2015, 01:01

Now and Venn

  • 15 shares
Time for Michael Harding to get out the runners? Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Running for dear life – An Irishman’s Diary about Bressie, Michael Harding, and Tarmac
  • Heritage
  • Frank McNally
  • February 26, 2015, 01:01

An antidote to the springtime blues

  • 2 comments
  • 5 shares
STRZELECKI3_WEB Pole Star – An Irishman’s Diary about the famine relief work of Pawel Strzelecki
  • Heritage
  • Frank McNally
  • February 25, 2015, 01:01

Ireland’s debt to Poznan’s native son

  • 1 comment
  • 61 shares
Monument in Helvick, Co Waterford, to Fenian gun-running voyage in 1867 An Irishwoman’s Diary on a one-ship Fenian armada
  • Heritage
  • Catherine Foley
  • February 24, 2015, 01:01

A gun-running voyage of 1867

  • 36 shares
Irish Roots
  • Heritage
  • John Grenham
  • February 23, 2015, 01:00

Standardised surnames and place names

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A still from the film, ‘The Cormack Brothers’. In the scene, a family is evicted on the orders of land agent, John Ellis, and the property burned The village that came together to make a film about injustice
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The female experience is at the heart of Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s work, the all-consuming passion in Ceathrúintí Mháire Ní Ógáin, maternal love in Codladh an Ghaiscígh and the fiercely eloquent poems she wrote upon the death of her husband, Conor Cruise O’Brien. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh In praise of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
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A bold and blistering debut from Daniel and Matthew Wolf playing exclusively at the IFI from Friday, February 27th

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