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David McWilliams on a Sinn Féin-led government: ‘I think they will try to make good on their promise on housing.’ Photograph: Nick Bradshaw David McWilliams: Wealthy Irish people ‘would be happy’ to be taxed more
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • January 25, 2022, 09:12

The economist spoke to Cliff Taylor at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival

Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
  • Music
  • Sian Cain
  • January 25, 2022, 08:54

‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,’ writes musician in open letter

Simple Minds and U2: How New Gold Dream lit an unforgettable fire Simple Minds and U2: How New Gold Dream lit an unforgettable fire
  • Books
  • Graeme Thomson
  • January 25, 2022, 06:00

Dismissed as ‘U3’, the Scottish band exerted an equally huge influence on Bono & co

Lighting the way: In search of the Ulster soul Lighting the way: In search of the Ulster soul
  • Culture
  • Jane Coyle
  • January 25, 2022, 05:00

Enlightenment Festival sees two installations light up Belfast’s Linen Hall Library

Jason Bateman on his ‘wilderness years’, sobriety, success and Ozark Jason Bateman on his ‘wilderness years’, sobriety, success and Ozark
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Zoe Williams
  • January 24, 2022, 13:16

After forty years in the industry, the actor reflects on his biggest roles

Helen McEntee: My maternity leave as a minister ‘started an important conversation’ Helen McEntee: My maternity leave as a minister ‘started an important conversation’
  • Culture
  • Shauna Bowers
  • January 24, 2022, 20:45

The Minister for Justice spoke to Jennifer Bray at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival

WHO’s Dr Mike Ryan: ‘Even if a new variant emerges, we should be alright’ WHO’s Dr Mike Ryan: ‘Even if a new variant emerges, we should be alright’
  • Culture
  • Sylvia Thompson
  • January 24, 2022, 22:10

The WHO director of health emergencies spoke at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival

Gig of the Week: Clear the brain fog with The Irish Times Winter Nights festival Gig of the Week: Clear the brain fog with The Irish Times Winter Nights festival
  • Culture
  • Kevin Courtney
  • January 24, 2022, 11:10

January 24-30: The best of the week’s cultural events

Romola Garai: ‘Horror films are often incredibly moving’ Romola Garai: ‘Horror films are often incredibly moving’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • January 24, 2022, 05:00

The actor on being exploited in Hollywood, and ‘icky’ directorial feature debut Amulet

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I always come back to the characters of mothers’ Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I always come back to the characters of mothers’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • January 22, 2022, 05:00

The Spanish director on how family and political history come together in his latest film

Latest Film

Romola Garai. Photograph: Elisabetta Villa/Getty Romola Garai: ‘Horror films are often incredibly moving’
Judi Dench, Jude Hill and Ciarán Hinds in Belfast Four new films to see in cinemas this week
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog, directed by Jane Campion The 50 best films on Netflix right now: From classics to new Oscar contenders
  • Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I always come back to the characters of mothers’
  • The Movie Quiz: How many times have Scorsese and DiCaprio worked together?

TV & Radio

Jason Bateman. Photograph: Mike Windle/Getty Images Jason Bateman on his ‘wilderness years’, sobriety, success and Ozark

After forty years in the industry, the actor reflects on his biggest roles

Vicky McClure and Adrian Lester in Trigger Point. The drama from Line of Duty producer Jed Mercurio begins Sunday on ITV TV guide: 21 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight
Our oily protagonist Marty Byrde is a creep who thinks he’s the good guy – when he’s actually the villain. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix Ozark returns this week for its final season. Here’s why it’s a must-see
  • Bad blood between Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman on Newstalk
  • Patrick Freyne: Lipsynching with your shirt off. That’s a job now

Latest Books

Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds. Photograph: Patrick Ford/Redferns Simple Minds and U2: How New Gold Dream lit an unforgettable fire

Dismissed as ‘U3’, the Scottish band exerted an equally huge influence on Bono & co

Vona Groarke: Link: Poet and World is experimental and witty, full of Groarke’s signature intelligent exactitude. Photograph: Cyril Byrne A poet for the world: Vona Groarke delivers a terrific, spare collection
Emma Donoghue in Dublin in February 2014. Photograph: Eric Luke The Books Quiz: What is the island setting of Emma Donoghue’s new novel?
  • Burnout nation: how has breaking point become normal?
  • ‘Writing about sex can be profound ... but also deeply silly’

Film Reviews

The film locks in the viewer with these angry, bereaved people and their increasingly difficult confrontation  Mass

 
Sheldon D Brown and Matthew Fifer in Cicada Cicada

 
Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill and Judi Dench in Belfast. Photograph: Rob Youngson/Focus Features Belfast

 
Bradley Cooper’s performance papers over some of the film’s narrative cracks Nightmare Abbey

 

Latest Music

Neil Young: the musician said his decision was motivated by The Joe Rogan Experience, which is Spotify’s most popular podcast. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation

‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,’ writes musician in open letter

Being Bono in Dublin, one imagines, must be a unique sort of experience. All the more credit to him for sticking around. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Hugh Linehan: Bono and I finally have something in common – we both find U2 cringeworthy
Black Country, New Road: Ants from Up There is one of those great second records which feels like a brighter, bolder revisiting of the themes explored by its predecessor Black Country, New Road’s tale of triumph unfolds in the shadow of tragedy
  • Meat Loaf’s ‘warm memories’ of a ‘middle-of-nowhere’ Irish tour that restored his passion for rock
  • ‘Our hearts are broken’: Singer Meat Loaf dies aged 74

Book Reviews

What I Wish People Knew About Dementia: An engaging and hopeful read
Eoin Ó Broin: I want to live in Frank McDonald’s Dublin
Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and his Times – A life story of riveting interest
Ireland 1922: confronting our troubled past 100 years on

Stage

Abbey Theatre’s artistic director Caitríona McLaughlin and executive director Mark O’Brien are getting the organisation ready for an extended building, creating a cultural hub in Dublin 1. Photograph: Rich Gilligan Abbey Theatre co-directors: ‘We want our artists to have a hand on the steering wheel’

Caitríona McLaughlin and Mark O’Brien on the way forward for the national theatre

With an implacable smile, Conroy encourages and supports even the most reluctant of audience members to join her on stage Every Brilliant Thing review: A magical, uplifting show
Audiences familiar with Gorman’s work may enjoy hearing him sketch the various stages of his career, but the stakes are too low for the more disinterested viewer Falling Through the Universe review: Two epiphanies conjoined
  • What’s on in Irish theatre in 2022, from Beckett to Binchy to Sondheim
  • Three Short Comedies by Seán O’Casey: Scathing, wildly entertaining commentaries on the new Irish State

Art & Design

The artist Francoise Gilot, former wife of Pablo Picasso, at her home in New York. Photograph: Landon Nordeman/New York Times The 100-year-old ‘it girl’: ‘Picasso took the cigarette and touched it to my right cheek’

Françoise Gilot, painter and girlfriend of Picasso, talks success, style and intimacy

Are we facing into a new era of compact and easier living or is it destined to flounder? Photograph: iStock Can the ‘15-minute city’ concept of urban living become a reality for Irish cities?
A starling murmuration over Lough Ennell, in Co Westmeath. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho 2021 in pictures: Irish Times photographers select their images of the year
  • ‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin
  • A gift of art is the gift that keeps on giving

Unthinkable

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer ‘believes pessimism to be true. When he cites the tragic poets, it is because he believes they were right in describing a world of suffering.’ Photograph: Getty images I think ‘hopeful pessimists’ have better lives than optimists – but I’m not positive

Unthinkable: It’s nice if your glass is always half full, but are you deluding yourself?

Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street campaign. ‘One of the things that makes us human,’ says David Wengrow, ‘is that we can make moral choices between competitive and altruistic kinds of society.’ Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters Humans aren’t naturally egalitarian. We’re better than that
Online sessions of the Philosopher’s Hat Club ‘provided a haven for human connection’ during the lockdown, says organiser Lukasz Krzywon. Photograph: Getty images How to think better: Join a community philosophy club
  • Values are not ‘just opinions’: How our moral teaching has gone wrong
  • If someone can be cancelled, someone can be uncancelled. Let’s start with Arthur Griffith

Heritage

British soldiers stand behind an armoured water cannon and armoured cars as tensions rise on Bloody Sunday in Derry. Photograph: William L Rukeyser/Getty Phil Coulter on Bloody Sunday: ‘You just felt the whole city had been violated’

The consequences of that day left a lasting impact on the lives of the people of Derry

Bernadette Devlin talks to reporters in 1972 after she slapped British home secretary Reginald Maudling for claiming that the British soldiers involved in Bloody Sunday had acted in self-defence. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Getty Bloody Sunday: Timeline of an atrocity and its long legal aftermath
People confront British soldiers on William Street in Derry minutes before paratroopers opened fire, killing 14 civilians on what became known as Bloody Sunday. File photograph: Getty Bloody Sunday is still damaging the British Army. And that’s a choice it continues to make
  • He shouted: ‘Help! This wee boy’s dying.’ The soldiers started clapping
  • Fintan O’Toole: Bloody Sunday, the 10-minute massacre that lasted decades

Michael Viney's Another Life

A surging flood in Dublin’s Liffey meeting a record storm surge in the bay would be one fearful scenario, that might concentrate minds in Ireland. If fear won’t work, how can we encourage climate action?

Michael Viney: Studies suggest positive messages about post-carbon society more effective

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
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
  • The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
  • Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows

Tuarascáil

Iarracht ar phobal Gaeilge Bhaile Átha Cliath a nascadh le chéile

Líonraí nua Gaeilge imeasc lucht gnó beartaithe le ‘BÁC le Gaeilge’

Bunaíodh Nato sa chéad áit d’fhonn buataisí na Sóivéadach a chosc dul ag stampáil leo trasna na hEorpa chomh fada leis an Atlantach. Grianghraf: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Gob na gé
Liam Ó Maonlaí, Rónán Ó Snodaigh agus Myles O’Reilly. Cuan an Cheoil: Sraith nua raidió a thapóidh teacht an Earraigh
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  • An Cósta Thiar: ‘Route 66 agus Camino na hÉireann’

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Staff, cost savings and access to capital cited as drivers behind shift towards sustainability

Bloody Sunday - 50 Years On Remembering the events of January 30th, 1972, when 14 people lost their lives
 

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Author Wendy Mitchell’s work has ensured that people living with dementia are included, consulted and listened to when it comes to considering how society approaches an illness which touches so many of us What I Wish People Knew About Dementia: An engaging and hopeful read
Vona Groarke: Link: Poet and World is experimental and witty, full of Groarke’s signature intelligent exactitude. Photograph: Cyril Byrne A poet for the world: Vona Groarke delivers a terrific, spare collection
Frank McDonald the historian and journalist is replaced by McDonald the crusader for a better Dublin, in his new book. Photograph: AFP via Getty Eoin Ó Broin: I want to live in Frank McDonald’s Dublin

Most Read in Culture

1 Executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme Dr Mike Ryan. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty WHO’s Dr Mike Ryan: ‘Even if a new variant emerges, we should be alright’

2 Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds. Photograph: Patrick Ford/Redferns Simple Minds and U2: How New Gold Dream lit an unforgettable fire

3 Jason Bateman. Photograph: Mike Windle/Getty Images Jason Bateman on his ‘wilderness years’, sobriety, success and Ozark

4 Neil Young: the musician said his decision was motivated by The Joe Rogan Experience, which is Spotify’s most popular podcast. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation

5 Author Wendy Mitchell’s work has ensured that people living with dementia are included, consulted and listened to when it comes to considering how society approaches an illness which touches so many of us What I Wish People Knew About Dementia: An engaging and hopeful read

6 Sing when your winning: conductor David Brophy Choir of Ages: Dublin and Leitrim find their voices

7 Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee TD in 2021. Photograph: Tom Honan Helen McEntee: My maternity leave as a minister ‘started an important conversation’

8 Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog, directed by Jane Campion The 50 best films on Netflix right now: From classics to new Oscar contenders

9 Bloody Sunday witness Paddy Walsh creeping towards Patrick Doherty. Lord Saville concluded he had "no doubt" Doherty was shot dead by Soldier F as he tried to crawl to safety. Photograph: Gilles Peress/Magnum Fintan O’Toole: Bloody Sunday, the 10-minute massacre that lasted decades

10 Being Bono in Dublin, one imagines, must be a unique sort of experience. All the more credit to him for sticking around. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Hugh Linehan: Bono and I finally have something in common – we both find U2 cringeworthy

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The Music Quiz: Who is writing songs for the Willy Wonka movie musical? The Music Quiz: Who is writing songs for the Willy Wonka movie musical?

Plus: What one tune would Keanu Reeves willingly listen to for the rest of this life?

Dublin Theatre Festival 2021 Reviews, news and interviews from Ireland’s premier theatre festival
 

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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
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