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Fat White Family: It’s been a while since we’ve had a band such as Fat White Family to keep us awake at night Fat White Family: ‘Everyone thinks we’re complete c***s’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • April 26, 2019, 06:00

New release Serfs Up! is the kind of album to slap on if the world is about to end

Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 26, 2019, 09:44

New: Eighth Grade, The Dig, Styxx, Ash Is Purest White, Avengers: Endgame, Donbass

Gorilla selfie: Park ranger explains how he took viral photo Gorilla selfie: Park ranger explains how he took viral photo
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • April 26, 2019, 09:51

Mathieu Shamavu snapped two orphaned Congo gorillas copying his movements

Marina: Love+Fear review – An album of two halves, where fear conquers love Marina: Love+Fear review – An album of two halves, where fear conquers love
  • Music
  • Lauren Murphy
  • April 26, 2019, 06:00

Fear is unquestionably the more interesting group of songs here

Ash Is Purest White: Chinese gangster’s girlfriend drama is a marvel Ash Is Purest White: Chinese gangster’s girlfriend drama is a marvel
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • April 26, 2019, 05:15

Review: China’s director supreme Jia Zhangke outdoes himslef with a thorny tale about the impossibility of love

The movie quiz: What’s the title of the next Star Wars film? The movie quiz: What’s the title of the next Star Wars film?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 26, 2019, 05:30

Also: Big back in the ’60s, not based on Nicholas Sparks, Quiet Man Barry Fitzgerald

The Irish Citizen Army, caught in the middle of Irish trade unionism and republicanism The Irish Citizen Army, caught in the middle of Irish trade unionism and republicanism
  • Books
  • Jeffrey Leddin
  • April 25, 2019, 18:06

ICA militarism worried unions fearful of a British backlash, while class issues affected republican ties

Styx: Questions of life and death on the ocean Styx: Questions of life and death on the ocean
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • April 26, 2019, 05:00

Review: A doctor on a solo high-seas adventure is confronted head-on with the refugee crisis

Donbass: A very dark comedy set amid an ongoing conflict Donbass: A very dark comedy set amid an ongoing conflict
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 26, 2019, 05:00

Review: The film comprises 13 equally cynical, comparably despairing vignettes

Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier? Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?
  • Music
  • Kevin Courtney
  • April 25, 2019, 05:00

PlayIrish, a new digital radio station, aims to get small Irish acts the recognition they deserve

Latest Film

Higher learning: Emily Robinson and Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
New this week: Pierre Deladonchamps and Vincent Lacoste in Sorry Angel, exclusively at the Triskel in Cork Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
The movie quiz: What’s the title of the next Star Wars film?
  • James Bond: Rami Malek to star alongside Daniel Craig
  • James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked

Film Reviews

Zhao Tao puts in the best performance you’ll see this year Ash is Purest White

 
Moral dilemma: Susanne Wolff in Styx Styx

 
Donbass: There has rarely been a better example of universal truths being revealed through particular histories. Donbass

 
Against worsening health, the characters of Sorry Angel live by the original French title of the film: Give Pleasure, Love and Run Fast Sorry Angel

 

Latest Music

Fat White Family: It’s been a while since we’ve had a band such as Fat White Family to keep us awake at night Fat White Family: ‘Everyone thinks we’re complete c***s’

New release Serfs Up! is the kind of album to slap on if the world is about to end

Fontaines DC. Photograph: Visionhaus/Getty Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?
Hozier performs in Dublin. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Hozier nominated for prestigious Ivor Novello award
  • Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from damp hotel basement
  • Beyoncé’s Lemonade finally lands on Spotify and Apple Music

Album Reviews

Marina: Love+Fear

 
J.J. Cale: Stay Around

 
Anna Mieke: Idle Mind

 
Josh Ritter: Fever Breaks

 
SOAK: Grim Town

 
In the End is a smart and stylish farewell for The Cranberries The Cranberries: In the End

 

Latest Books

Irish Citizen Army soldiers on the roof of Liberty Hall, Dublin, during the Easter Rising, 1916. Photograph: Robert Hunt/Windmill Books/UIG via Getty Images The Irish Citizen Army, caught in the middle of Irish trade unionism and republicanism

ICA militarism worried unions fearful of a British backlash, while class issues affected republican ties

“A classically Irish novel in disguise, a dysfunctional family trying to deal with their traumas. It’s almost a John McGahern novel disguised as a near-future science-fiction novel set in Nevada.” Connect by Julian Gough is this week’s Irish Times offer at Eason
The series aims to re-invigorate imaginative or utopian social thinking in contemporary Ireland. Photograph: Getty Images Síreacht: little books that tackle big topics
  • ‘The ever-present threat of violence contaminated all aspects of life in Belfast’
  • A GP’s work-lifesaving balance: ‘I could not care for others if I was not caring for myself’

Book Reviews

So Much Longing in So Little Space review: Knausgaard’s Munch analysis is like a secular Bible
The Old Man and the Sea and the Boy
Machines Like Me cover Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review: a baggy and jumbled narrative
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read review: It made me angry

TV & Radio

Mary Black leads the country to song, Sunday night on RTÉ One Weekend TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch

Choosing Ireland’s folkie fave, plus sex talk on Channel 4, Dani & mammy at Mrs Brown’s, Baz Ashmawi winging it, and Sylvia Hoeks heating up The Adulterer

Chimpstagram: the chimpanzee particularly likes clips showing other great apes Chimpstagram: Is this ape better at social media than humans?
Gorilla selfie: Mathieu Shamavu, of Senkwekwe Centre for Orphaned Mountain Gorillas, poses with the great apes. Photograph: Mathieu Shamavu/Instagram Gorilla selfie: Park ranger explains how he took viral photo
  • Ken Kercheval, who played Cliff Barnes in Dallas, dies aged 83
  • Bonding: Sex and life lesson from a dominatrix

Stage

Mark Morris Dance Group members at the famous Abbey Road zebra crossing in London, ahead of their performance of Pepperland in Dublin. Photograph: Elliott From Franks It was 50 years ago today: Choreographing a commemoration of Sgt Pepper

Mark Morris’s Pepperland, a dance celebration of the Beatles album, is coming to Dublin

Ulster American: An escalating farce. Filthy minds: The best theatre shows this week
A play so dependent on dramatic cliche will be a great success. Photograph: Caleb Purcell Light A Penny Candle review: Binchy deserves better, but it will be a success
  • Spotless review: characters in suburban thriller are defined by what divides them
  • In Our Veins review: Story of good people in hard situation is pleasantly sentimental

Art & Design

Helvetica Now: Monotype’s redesigned typeface offers character options such as a straight-legged capital R and a “single-storey” lowercase a, like the handwritten form of the character Helvetica Now: Why the Marmite of fonts was redesigned

The love-it-or-hate-it typeface has been updated to help it survive the internet age

Sheila O’Donnell: Architect who has spent a lifetime building connections
This painting by Atsushi Kaga is among the works to go under the hammer at the Pallas Auction on May 2nd. Upcoming art auctions all in a good cause
  • Pierre Bonnard: The bright palette of a tortured soul
  • The authentic Sonia Shiel and Martin Mooney, 12 years later

Unthinkable

‘There is something new in our day – the way we can express invented identities without the requirement to stand by them.’ Photograph: Photothek/Getty Images Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

Social media ‘invites us to be so many people at once’, says UCC academic Fiachra Long

‘The approach to knowledge in art and science is different but complementary.’ File image: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images Rethinking stereotypes about science and the arts
‘Nearly all of us have some desire to do what’s right but a lot of the time our desire doesn’t really translate into motivation.’ Photograph: Getty images Is morality just a matter of following your deepest desires?
  • ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe
  • Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six

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

Ships arrive in Dublin for the 2018 Tall Ships Regatta. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Irish sailors unlikely to drop ‘harmless tradition’ of referring to boats as ‘she’

Scottish museum moves to gender neural terms after ‘she’ was scratched from a number of signs

The Mountjoy Square Society said, if properly restored, the building would be an ‘outstanding asset to the area’. Plan for partial demolition of Big Tree pub in Dublin criticised
The Macmorris project sets out to recover the complexity of Ireland’s transformative years between Henry VIII’s assumption of the kingship of Ireland in 1541 to the Flight of the Earls. Courtesy of Trinity College Dublin library Ireland's forgotten Renaissance: An overlooked period in history
  • Why does Donegal get a disproportionate number of Irish earthquakes?
  • 10 Good Friday traditions you’ve never heard of

Tuarascáil

Ceann Fine Náisiún na Móhácach, Joseph Tokwiro Norton. Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Tús caoithiúil le chaidreamh nua le Náisiún na Móhácach

Súil ag Ceann Fine Náisiún na Móhácach go gcuirfidh an scéim nua le stór eolais a mhuintire

Grianghraf: iStockphoto ‘Ní raibh ann ach mioncheannairc ar deireadh’
Diarmuid De Faoite ‘Coimhlint ceol na scéalaíochta’
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  • An bhréag náisiúnta?

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Immersive technologies: from hype to hyper-performance Immersive technologies: from hype to hyper-performance

International ARVR Innovate Conference and Expo returns to RDS Dublin on Friday, May 10th and will offer delegates the chance to hear from leading international and domestic speakers

Tech and data centre industries combine: the Interxion and Welltel connection Tech and data centre industries combine: the Interxion and Welltel connection

Understanding the fabric that supports Ireland’s technology hub

Game of Thrones: The epic series’ final season News, reviews, recaps and interviews as season eight continues
 

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1 Higher learning: Emily Robinson and Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
2 Children from the Billie Barry Stage School. The school’s home has been on Philipsburgh Avenue for decades. Photograph: Alan Betson Home of Billie Barry school in Dublin for sale
3 Shaken and stirred: the 007 club James Bond: 007’s best and worst movies, ranked
4 In the End is a smart and stylish farewell for The Cranberries The Cranberries: In the End review – Dolores O’Riordan’s remarkable swansong
5 Gorilla selfie: Mathieu Shamavu, of Senkwekwe Centre for Orphaned Mountain Gorillas, poses with the great apes. Photograph: Mathieu Shamavu/Instagram Gorilla selfie: Park ranger explains how he took viral photo
6 Fat White Family: It’s been a while since we’ve had a band such as Fat White Family to keep us awake at night Fat White Family: ‘Everyone thinks we’re complete c***s’
7 The movie quiz: What’s the title of the next Star Wars film?
8 Kit de Waal: when writers become the other we need always to act with respect and recognise the value of what we discover. Photograph: Justine Stoddart Don’t dip your pen in someone else’s blood: writers and ‘the other’
9 Zhao Tao puts in the best performance you’ll see this year Ash Is Purest White: Chinese gangster’s girlfriend drama is a marvel
10 Ships arrive in Dublin for the 2018 Tall Ships Regatta. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Irish sailors unlikely to drop ‘harmless tradition’ of referring to boats as ‘she’
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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
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Galleries

Red electrical tape marks out our playing space on the timber floor. One side of this line denotes the stage; outside of this line is known as the wings. Here, bits of costume and props line up, ready to be brought on stage. Among these props – suitcases, wine bottles, letters – lies a digital camera, very much out of place in this world of 1940s Galway. We’re in the Lab on Foley Street in Dublin. It’s week three of rehearsals for Light a Penny Candle. Maeve Binchy’s heartfelt story, adapted wisely for stage by Shay Linehan, is taking shape. I’ve brought my camera with me this week; I leave it off to the side as we work through the text. Light a Penny Candle: The rehearsal room laid bare
Owen Roe addresses the audience upon accepting his Special Tribute Award at the The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards at the National Concert Hall. Photograph: Aidan Crawley The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
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