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Lockdown TV guide: old favourites and some sparkling new shows Level 5 lockdown TV: From The Crown to Dead Still, the ultimate guide to what to watch
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • October 23, 2020, 06:00

Try a new show such as The Undoing or go for classics Friends and Dawson’s Creek

Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘My aim was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism. It was to make people laugh’ Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘My aim was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism. It was to make people laugh’
  • Film
  • Maureen Dowd
  • October 23, 2020, 06:00

The Borat actor on his new film and why he felt the need to say ‘democracy is in peril’

Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun Museum Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun Museum
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • October 23, 2020, 05:30

Patrick Freyne: Frenchies are depicted as smelly, sex-obsessed, work-shy and nude

Rising Time’s Shay Byrne is so glum he makes Morning Ireland seem cheerful Rising Time’s Shay Byrne is so glum he makes Morning Ireland seem cheerful
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • October 23, 2020, 05:00

... while chirpy Ryan Tubridy leads listeners into lockdown with head-boy earnestness

The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo? The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 23, 2020, 06:00

Plus: singing Oscarless, editing Martin Scorsese, a co-director goes uncredited

Keaton Henson: Monument review – A sobering and raw account of grief Keaton Henson: Monument review – A sobering and raw account of grief
  • Music
  • Siobhán Kane
  • October 23, 2020, 05:45

An ode to the musician's father manages to memorialise something fundamental

International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns becomes first Irish woman to win €100,000 prize International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns becomes first Irish woman to win €100,000 prize
  • Books
  • Freya McClements
  • October 22, 2020, 12:02

Troubles novel has already won Man Booker and Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prizes

Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani’s trouser-reaching scene is the work of a daring young woman Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani’s trouser-reaching scene is the work of a daring young woman
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • October 22, 2020, 12:07

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review: Maria Bakalova is brilliant as Borat’s daughter

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Ben Wheatley: ‘Films can’t all be about people being bludgeoned to death’ Ben Wheatley: ‘Films can’t all be about people being bludgeoned to death’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • October 22, 2020, 05:00

The British director’s film of du Maurier’s Rebecca for Netflix is ‘romantic and glamorous. It’s a big entertainment’

Latest Film

The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?
Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘My aim was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism. It was to make people laugh’
Bill Murray and director Sofia Coppola on the set of On the Rocks Four new films to stream this weekend
  • Ben Wheatley: ‘Films can’t all be about people being bludgeoned to death’
  • Kevin Bacon: ‘I was incredibly cocky and unwilling to take any advice’

TV & Radio

Lockdown TV guide: old favourites and some sparkling new shows Level 5 lockdown TV: From The Crown to Dead Still, the ultimate guide to what to watch

Try a new show such as The Undoing or go for classics Friends and Dawson’s Creek

RTÉ’s Shay Byrne, host of Rising Time. Rising Time’s Shay Byrne is so glum he makes Morning Ireland seem cheerful
The emaciated face of Terence MacSwiney, in a photograph published by a French newspaper under the heading: ‘The Lord Mayor of Cork Two Days Before His Death’. Photograph: UCD Archives What Terence MacSwiney’s body went through during his 74-day hunger strike
  • The Billion Dollar Art Hunt: Searching for a Vermeer with Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley
  • If I had a fiver for every time Dermot Bannon says ‘stunning’

Latest Books

Wendy Erskine: winner of the Butler Literary Award for Sweet Home Wendy Erskine wins Butler Literary Award; Michael Amherst wins Hubert Butler Essay Prize

Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor is tomorrow’s Irish Times Eason book offer

Poet Rita Ann Higgins Poetry round-up: True, funny poems in response to Covid-19
Artist Tony Oakey, right, holding the original legacy art piece, with the late Mary Wells’ daughter Geraldine and family, and niece Martina. Geraldine is holding a copy of the print In ár gcroíthe go Deo / In our hearts forever: an art project to honour lives lost to Covid-19
  • International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns becomes first Irish woman to win €100,000 prize
  • ‘Plenty to say, but no rooms to show it in’: Belfast festival makes a virtue of the virus

Film Reviews

Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin are stars in the making Summer of '85

 
Dixie Egerickx in the Secret Garden The Secret Garden

 
Personal attorney to Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani (right) appears in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film. Photograph: AP Photo Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

 
On the Rocks On the Rocks

 

Latest Music

Paul McCartney’s new album will be released on December 11th. File photograph: Sophia Juliane Lydolph/EPA Paul McCartney to release new album recorded alone in lockdown

McCartney III continues solo series started in 1970 in secret as the Beatles broke up

Nobody writes songs about the poor ignored white bloke, do they? All right, Bruce Springsteen did write one or two . . . Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Bruce Springsteen quiz: How well do you know The Boss?
Nealo: ‘I always felt that something huge was happening somewhere else and I wanted to be there.’ Photograph: George Voronov Nealo: ‘I’m not important... but I’m important to my son’
  • David Byrne’s lockdown despair: ‘I see new chicanery every day’
  • Bruce Springsteen’s 2020: I swam. I kept busy. I made an album

Book Reviews

The Darkness Echoing: How the past is politicised and marketed
Ghosts: Dolly Alderton’s debut novel haunts, but not in a good way
Britain and Europe in a Troubled World: A wise guide to Brexit
Love: Roddy Doyle’s masterful study in all that goes unsaid

Stage

A new play seeks to challenge Samuel Beckett’s instructions that only men may appear in Waiting for Godot. Photograph: Ali Wright Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged

Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play

Callan Cummins Matthew Malone and Mary Murray in Fishamble: The New Play Company’s Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan. Photograph: Anthony Woods Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanistic
Niall Henry, artistic director of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in Sligo. Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge
  • The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packages
  • Looking for América review: Memory tells a different kind of truth

Art & Design

Technicians handle Banksy’s Show me the Monet, a reimagining of Claude Monet’s water lilies, at Sotheby’s in central London. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Show me the Monet: Banksy comment on consumerism fetches £7.5m

Artist’s second most expensive auction sale surpasses expectations at Sotheby’s

The Potter’s Shop, Clonakilty, 1980s. Photograph: Jane Forrester Bohemian blow-ins: Crafting an arts movement in west Cork
Katie Holten’s Irish Tree Alphabet Why I made a new Irish Tree Alphabet
  • Rankin: U2’s second-favourite photographer on his brushes with fame
  • Berlin exhibition offers a global audience a window into modern Irish life

Unthinkable

James Suzman: ‘My solution is to say, look, recognise we are incredibly adaptable species... We have got to experiment.’ Why work more than 15 hours a week?

Unthinkable: It was good enough for your ancestors, says anthropologist James Suzman

The US president may have lots followers but ‘you get diminishing returns’ on his tweets, philosopher and author Ian Olasov remarks. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Ask yourself before reading: Is this newsworthy?
Zena Hitz has particular concerns about the quality of teaching, an issue that goes beyond the coronavirus crisis. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Researched to death? How universities have sidelined teaching
  • Has Christianity been good for us? It depends on your history book
  • Cancel culture: can you defend people who say unpopular things?

Heritage

Hilary Mantel calls for skeleton of Irish ‘giant’ to be repatriated

Bones of 18th-century Charles Byrne stored at the Royal College of Surgeons in London

Sean Treacy’s body is moved, as caught by a Pathe film crew in Dublin Shot dead in Dublin 100 years ago: the man who started the War of Independence
North Great George’s Street. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Co-living development ‘will destroy’ North Great George’s Street
  • Approval for redevelopment and restoration of Old Library in Trinity College
  • A century on: how partition divided Ireland and why it still matters

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

Is leagan coimrithe é Concise English-Irish Dictionary den Fhoclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge atá le fáil ar focloir.ie. Grianghraf: Foras na Gaeilge Mórfhoclóir úr in aimsir na Paindéime

‘Níor éirigh leis an Stát polasaí cuimsitheach foclóireachta a chur le chéile don Ghaeilge riamh’

Christy Ring: Tá rud éigin neamhbhásmhar mar gheall ar a chuid gaiscí. Ringey
De réir Conradh na Gaeilge tá “éagóir” déanta ar lucht na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta ó aimsir an bhriseadh eacnamaíochta i 2008 i leith agus tá sé ríthábhachtach go ndéanfaí infheistiú san earnáil. Grianghraf: Alan Betson / The Irish Times Cáinaisnéis 2021 agus an Ghaeilge: ‘tá ré na leithscéalta thart’
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Poet Rita Ann Higgins Poetry round-up: True, funny poems in response to Covid-19
Lily Collins in Emily in Paris: pretty hard to stop watching Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun Museum
A difficulty in representing those who perished or left during the Famine is that “the poor leave little behind”. Photograph: Frank Miller The Darkness Echoing: How the past is politicised and marketed

Most Read in Culture

1 Lily Collins in Emily in Paris: pretty hard to stop watching Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun Museum
2 Lockdown TV guide: old favourites and some sparkling new shows Level 5 lockdown TV: From The Crown to Dead Still, the ultimate guide to what to watch
3 Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘My aim was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism. It was to make people laugh’
4 RTÉ’s Shay Byrne, host of Rising Time. Rising Time’s Shay Byrne is so glum he makes Morning Ireland seem cheerful
5 Personal attorney to Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani (right) appears in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film. Photograph: AP Photo Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani’s trouser-reaching scene is the work of a daring young woman
6 The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?
7 James Suzman: ‘My solution is to say, look, recognise we are incredibly adaptable species... We have got to experiment.’ Why work more than 15 hours a week?
8 Anna Burns: “To go from being a wee girl haggling over library cards with my siblings, my friends, neighbours, my parents and my aunt, to be standing here today receiving this award is phenomenal for me.” Photograph: Eleni Stefanou International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns becomes first Irish woman to win €100,000 prize
9 Classic horror: the 10 most terrifying short stories ever written
10 Wendy Erskine: winner of the Butler Literary Award for Sweet Home Wendy Erskine wins Butler Literary Award; Michael Amherst wins Hubert Butler Essay Prize
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The Music Quiz: Who said losing their virginity was a career move? The Music Quiz: Who said losing their virginity was a career move?

Plus: The Beatles meet Timothy Leary and a sampling of 21-century King Crimson

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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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
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