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Tenet: Jack Cutmore-Scott, John David Washington and Robert Pattinson in Christopher Nolan’s new film All eyes on Tenet, the spy movie with everything to prove
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • August 8, 2020, 05:00

Covid-19 crisis means Christopher Nolan’s new film will be a bellwether for all cinema

Dublin Fringe Festival 2020: Making lemonade in a year of lemons Dublin Fringe Festival 2020: Making lemonade in a year of lemons
  • Stage
  • Gemma Tipton
  • August 8, 2020, 05:00

Even amid the pandemic, the festival is about ‘new pathways, inspiration and discovery’

Lisa Tierney-Keogh brings her succesful play to an online audience Lisa Tierney-Keogh brings her succesful play to an online audience
  • Visual Art
  • Sara Keating
  • August 8, 2020, 05:00

Adapting her play for Zoom was ‘probably the hardest thing I have ever done’

Lifting the lid on paid-for politics Lifting the lid on paid-for politics
  • Books
  • Hugh Linehan
  • August 8, 2020, 06:00

Does weak UK regulation allow influential think tanks to peddle the interests of anonymous donors?

Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘There is a real anger in Irish millennials’ Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘There is a real anger in Irish millennials’
  • Books
  • Una Mullally
  • August 8, 2020, 06:00

The writer grapples with Irishness, placelessness, loneliness and ‘the rage generation’

The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat
  • Art & Design
  • Finn McRedmond
  • August 8, 2020, 06:00

Gerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and art

Dirty Dancing sequel announced 33 years after original Dirty Dancing sequel announced 33 years after original
  • Film
  • Catherine Shoard
  • August 7, 2020, 16:05

Jennifer Grey, who played Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, to return for film

Eurovision signs deal to create US version of song contest Eurovision signs deal to create US version of song contest
  • Music
  • Jim Waterson
  • August 7, 2020, 16:23

From late 2021, performers from all 50 states will compete in the American Song Contest

Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary and changes name to Kae Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary and changes name to Kae
  • Music
  • Ben Beaumont-Thomas
  • August 7, 2020, 08:35

‘I’ve been struggling to accept myself as I am for a long time,’ says musician and poet

How Seán the enchanted-cauldron keeper herded all the wild Connells of Meath How Seán the enchanted-cauldron keeper herded all the wild Connells of Meath
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Patrick Freyne
  • August 6, 2020, 23:15

TV review: Patrick Freyne sets the scene for RTÉ’s film about the GAA boss Seán Boylan

Latest Film

Tenet: Jack Cutmore-Scott, John David Washington and Robert Pattinson in Christopher Nolan’s new film All eyes on Tenet, the spy movie with everything to prove
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey portraying Baby Houseman in a scene from the film Dirty Dancing. Photograph: Lionsgate Home Entertainment/AP Dirty Dancing sequel announced 33 years after original
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman won the Oscar for Music and Original Song with the toe-tapping Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast.  Howard Ashman’s story is part of Hollywood’s new awareness
  • The Movie Quiz: Who stirred the late Olivia de Havilland to consult her lawyers?
  • Four new films to stream this weekend

TV & Radio

John Hume, in Derry in 1970: ‘He was a very important man. He brought peace in our time,’ Morning Ireland heard from one young contributor. Photograph: Leif Skoogfors/Corbis Historical via Getty In a week of tributes to John Hume, a 12-year-old has the biggest impact

Radio review: ‘He helped solve the sectarian conflict as it was happening,’ Jayden Nixon says

Seán Boylan: the former Meath manager at Croke Park in 2016. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho How Seán the enchanted-cauldron keeper herded all the wild Connells of Meath
Harlots: Samantha Morton (front) as Margaret Wells. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Monumental/BBC Harlots? It’s all pumping buttocks from the men. Which is fair enough
  • Mrs America’s Uzo Aduba: ‘You have to have lived racism to understand how it feels’
  • How come no one ever went to Laois on one of these erotic journeys?

Latest Books

Browser: Lively fictional retelling of a fateful year for Ireland

Brief reviews of 1691: A Novel by Joe Joyce; A History of the Highlands Hotel by Tom Plunkett; Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

Nigel Farage: his Brexit Party in the UK is a populist movement built around a strong leader which uses the organisational techniques of the internet. Photograph: Getty Images Lifting the lid on paid-for politics
Caroline O’Donoghue: There is a sort of loneliness at play in her second novel, Scenes of a Graphic Nature Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘There is a real anger in Irish millennials’
  • A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse
  • Cathy Sweeney and daughter Lucy Sweeney Byrne shortlisted for Butler Literary Award

Film Reviews

Giraffe: How refreshing to find a film that admits so many facets of human opinion Giraffe

 
Daphne (Shailene Woodley)and Jack (Jamie Dornan) in Endings, Beginnings. Endings, Beginnings

 
Howard Ashman Howard

 
Spaceship Earth: The group seal themselves inside a gigantic, self-sustaining, $150 million glass biosphere. Spaceship Earth

 

Latest Music

Eurovision Finland’s Sandhja (centre) performs with the song Sing It Away during 2016 semi-final. Photograph: Reuters Eurovision signs deal to create US version of song contest

From late 2021, performers from all 50 states will compete in the American Song Contest

Lisa Hannigan will renew her colloboration with European instrumental collective stargaze in an Other Voices event linking Germany and Ireland. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times ‘Other Voices’ team hosting virtual German-Irish concert
Kae Tempest made the announcement on Instagram. Photograph: Kae Tempest/Instagram Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary and changes name to Kae
  • My dad the spy: Stewart Copeland on his father’s secret life as a CIA agent
  • Scarlet for ya: Paul Mescal does classic Connell in The Rolling Stones’ new video

Book Reviews

The Number Bias: A provocative look at how we can be misled by numbers
Democracy for Sale: A plunge into murky waters
Catching the Worm: Examining the motivation behind scientific research
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings: Capturing tensions of domestic life

Stage

Dublin Fringe Festival 2020: Duets, by Dan Colley and Fionnuala Gygax Dublin Fringe Festival 2020: Making lemonade in a year of lemons

Even amid the pandemic, the festival is about ‘new pathways, inspiration and discovery’

Selina Cartmell: ‘I continue to believe in the potential of the Gate to be a crucial incubator of great Irish creative talent’ Gate Theatre to remain shut until 2021 as social distancing slashes potential income
Departing directors: Neil Murray and Graham McLaren at the Abbey Theatre in 2016. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Abbey Theatre does not plan to renew joint directors’ contracts
  • ‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’
  • Little John Nee: Storyteller goes back to basics

Art & Design

Gerry Dalton in his garden. Photograph: Jill Mead The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat

Gerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and art

Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s This Beautiful Virtual Village premieres online via the Abbey Theatre on August 17th. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Lisa Tierney-Keogh brings her succesful play to an online audience
Sarah Browne: Report to an Academy (2016), HD video 28 minutes. Courtesy: the artist Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes
  • Shooting soldiers in a handball alley: Amelia Stein’s The Bloods
  • Would these Irish ads persuade you to wear a face mask?

Unthinkable

Philosopher Mary Midgley, as illustrated for the Notes from a Biscuit Tin project What are words worth: do poets and philosophers speak the same language?

Unthinkable: Research project and poetry prize explore overlap between perceived rival disciplines

The word according to Father Ted. ‘Humour is a large part of Irish life so a truly Irish church should be conversant with such humour and able to laugh at itself,’ says Christian pastor Fraser Hosford. Does religion deserve to be treated as a joke?
Philosopher Édouard Glissant defended one’s right ‘to be opaque’, or to lack transparency and avoid categorisation by oppressors. Photograph: Jean-Marc Zaorski/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Why does philosophy have a problem with race?
  • How do you identify a legitimate government?
  • Left floundering by the jet ski minds of a younger generation

Heritage

The questionnaire filled in by the young Oscar Wilde on the cusp of stardom in 1877 Oscar Wilde’s wit and ego on display in €50,000 auction sale

According to book, his preferred poets were ‘Euripides, Keats, Theocritus and myself’

One of the statues removed by the hotel. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons Dublin City Council begins action against Shelbourne Hotel for removing statues
Proinsias Ó Rathaille, grandson of The O’Rahilly, outside the badly vandalised house of The O’Rahilly at Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin, on Wednesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill O’Rahilly house at risk after being damaged by vandalism
  • Is this our last chance to see an Irish lighthouse’s ‘beautiful loom’?
  • Shelbourne statues: Will we ever see them on St Stephen’s Green again?

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

“Tar éis do na daltaí a dtréimhse meánscolaíochta a chríochnú d’fhéadfaidís bliain a chaitheamh in institiúid áitiúil teicneolaíochta.” Grianghraf: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Bliain um dhul chun cinn an Choláiste

An bhfuil sé in am athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar mar a dháiltear áiteanna ar chúrsaí léinn?

’Ar éirigh leis an siúinéir sin an bord úd a dheisiú, ar bhain an fiaclóir an déad ceart amach, ar stiúraigh an tiománaí an bus go slán chun na sprice?’ Grianghraf: Getty Gaineamh Súraic
Tógadh ardán Nally in 1952. Grianghraf: Inpho/Morgan Treacy Ardán Nally: Ó Pháirc an Chrócaigh go dtí Páirc Cholmcille
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The Irish Times Summer Nights festival: Join Anne Enright, Marian Keyes, Fintan O’Toole and more Series of online talks on July 13th-16th features Irish Times journalists and special guests
 

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British prime minister Boris Johnson meets US president Donald Trump at the UN headquarters in New York in 2019. Photograph: New York Times Democracy for Sale: A plunge into murky waters
Dr William Campbell at his home after the announcement that he won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine, in North Andover, Massachusetts, US. Photograph: CJ Gunther/EPA Catching the Worm: Examining the motivation behind scientific research
In Saturday Lunch with the Brownings, Penelope Mortimer’s dexterous, vibrant prose burrows deep into the everyday moments that lead to points of crisis Saturday Lunch with the Brownings: Capturing tensions of domestic life

Music Quiz

The Music Quiz: Which was the first Irish act nominated for the Mercury Prize? The Music Quiz: Which was the first Irish act nominated for the Mercury Prize?

Plus: U2’s Lord of the Flies connection and the Beatle in a Frank Zappa movie

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’s won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Tenet: Jack Cutmore-Scott, John David Washington and Robert Pattinson in Christopher Nolan’s new film All eyes on Tenet, the spy movie with everything to prove
2 Caroline O’Donoghue: There is a sort of loneliness at play in her second novel, Scenes of a Graphic Nature Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘There is a real anger in Irish millennials’
3 Classic Connell: Paul Mescal in The Rolling Stones’ new video, Scarlet Scarlet for ya: Paul Mescal does classic Connell in The Rolling Stones’ new video
4 British prime minister Boris Johnson meets US president Donald Trump at the UN headquarters in New York in 2019. Photograph: New York Times Democracy for Sale: A plunge into murky waters
5 Safe for now: Lansdowne House, Brian Hogan’s Ballsbridge office block, is so distinctive it should be a protected structure. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear
6 The Police: Stewart Copeland with Sting and Andy Summers in 1979. Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty My dad the spy: Stewart Copeland on his father’s secret life as a CIA agent
7 Nigel Farage: his Brexit Party in the UK is a populist movement built around a strong leader which uses the organisational techniques of the internet. Photograph: Getty Images Lifting the lid on paid-for politics
8 Gerry Dalton in his garden. Photograph: Jill Mead The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat
9 In a Word ... Fans
10 Tampons & Tea: Tampax’s TV ad can’t be shown again in its current form Tampax’s TV ad has been banned. Get a grip, Ireland
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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture
 

Galleries

Olivia de Havilland in 1938. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Olivia de Havilland 1916-2020: A life in pictures
Poet Eavan Boland, who died on Monday at the age of 75 Eavan Boland: A life in pictures
Vote 100 Celebrating a century since Irish women won the right to vote
 
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