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Motherland: Almost every character is a fed-up mother Motherland: Sparkling wine o’clock wit from Sharon Horgan
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • May 10, 2021, 22:21

TV review: Beleaguered parents will enjoy putting up their feet and draining every drop

You’re 16. Diagnosis is like suddenly being allowed to try to free yourself from a straitjacket You’re 16. Diagnosis is like suddenly being allowed to try to free yourself from a straitjacket
  • Culture
  • Meg North
  • May 11, 2021, 06:00

Fighting Words 2021: An account by M North, Mount Temple Community School, Dublin

In Bed with Madonna 30 years on: Nastily funny, openly horny In Bed with Madonna 30 years on: Nastily funny, openly horny
  • Music
  • Guy Lodge
  • May 11, 2021, 06:00

Its window into the star’s uncensored world is a far cry from the celeb docs we see today

Olivia Rodrigo: I’m really proud to sing about emotions frowned on as bitchy and moaning Olivia Rodrigo: I’m really proud to sing about emotions frowned on as bitchy and moaning
  • Music
  • Laura Snapes
  • May 11, 2021, 06:00

The Drivers License singer on turning her first big breakup into the year’s biggest hit

The Troubles are not the North’s only story The Troubles are not the North’s only story
  • Books
  • Claire McGowan
  • May 11, 2021, 05:54

Claire McGowan on the potential for genres other than crime to take off in Northern Ireland

Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • May 10, 2021, 09:24

BBC’s The Pursuit of Love features a histrionic Andrew Scott and ladlefuls of whimsy

The Irish Times guide to Ireland’s reopening museums, galleries and heritage sites The Irish Times guide to Ireland’s reopening museums, galleries and heritage sites
  • Culture
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • May 10, 2021, 06:00

From the National Gallery to the Book of Kells, and Croke Park to the leprechaun museum

Do the Irish really swear more than other nations? Who gives a f*** Do the Irish really swear more than other nations? Who gives a f***
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • May 9, 2021, 23:18

Ardal O’Hanlon’s charming documentary ‘Holy F***’ is based on a slightly rickety premise

‘My father was a dervish ... If you didn’t know them you would have thought they’d taken ecstasy’ ‘My father was a dervish ... If you didn’t know them you would have thought they’d taken ecstasy’
  • Music
  • Siobhan Long
  • May 10, 2021, 05:00

Tulca’s debut album is full of sweeping yet intimate music drawn from Irish and Persian traditions

‘It was a ticking timebomb’: Inside the rise and fall of The Jeremy Kyle Show ‘It was a ticking timebomb’: Inside the rise and fall of The Jeremy Kyle Show
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jenny Kleeman
  • May 10, 2021, 06:00

Two years after the TV show was taken off air, former staffers reflect on a toxic work culture

Latest Film

Some Kind of Heaven Four new films to stream this week
Various psychologists have suggested that girls get together and scream at boys as an expression of their fears about reaching sexual maturity When girls scream together: A front row view of the fangirl experience
Italian poster art for Sergio Leone’s C’era una volta il west (Once Upon a Time in the West) The Movie Quiz: Pick out the non-Sergio Leone film title – in Italian
  • Steve Zahn: ‘I’ve never been a slacker. I live on a farm’
  • Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning actor, dies aged 89

TV & Radio

Motherland: Almost every character is a fed-up mother Motherland: Sparkling wine o’clock wit from Sharon Horgan

TV review: Beleaguered parents will enjoy putting up their feet and draining every drop

Cousins Fanny (Emily Beecham, right) and Linda (Lily James) are so close they take baths together Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too
The Jeremy Kyle Show ran for 14 years. Photograph: ITV ‘It was a ticking timebomb’: Inside the rise and fall of The Jeremy Kyle Show
  • Do the Irish really swear more than other nations? Who gives a f***
  • TV guide: 10 of the best shows to watch this week, starting tonight

Latest Books

Claire McGowan: “I’m part of the problem, I’ll admit, as it wouldn’t have occurred to me to set a women’s fiction novel in Belfast, had my editor not suggested it.” Photograph: Jamie Drew The Troubles are not the North’s only story

Claire McGowan on the potential for genres other than crime to take off in Northern Ireland

Alan Gilsenan: ‘Things just might be alright after all’ Fighting words: Fragments of wonder from our younger generation
Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition follows his Dylan Thomas Prize winning 2017 debut Kumukanda. Poetry round-up: Shetland landscapes to river gods
  • WB Yeats to be honoured with London sculpture
  • The books quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

Film Reviews

Sasha Knight and Steve Zahn Cowboys

 
Mélanie Laurent Oxygen

 
Some Kind of Heaven: There’s a compelling soap opera bubbling under the sterile surface Some Kind of Heaven

 
Who are you? Apples

 

Latest Music

Olivia Rodrigo: ‘I’m really proud that this record talks about emotions that are hard to talk about or aren’t really socially acceptable.’ Photograph: Universal Music 2021 Olivia Rodrigo: I’m really proud to sing about emotions frowned on as bitchy and moaning

The Drivers License singer on turning her first big breakup into the year’s biggest hit

Madonna: rude, raucous and hard to pin down. Photograph: Miramax In Bed with Madonna 30 years on: Nastily funny, openly horny
Tulca ‘My father was a dervish ... If you didn’t know them you would have thought they’d taken ecstasy’
  • St Vincent: ‘I feel the 1970s are very similar to where we are now’
  • David Kitt: ‘I listened to Irish acts when I was on my own in a new city, craving home’

Book Reviews

Reclaiming the European Street: Collection of President Higgins’s speeches on Europe
Lean Fall Stand: Eloquent mapping of geographer’s disorientation
Stalin’s War: Disorted history of a complex second World War
Albert and the Whale: scintillating prose on Dürer but poorly illustrated

Stage

Stephen Rea and (reflected) Judith Roddy in The Visiting Hour by Frank McGuinness, ‘streaming from the Gate auditorium’. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience

Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?

Drama and theatre studies students from NUI Galway perform in Nochtaithe (Unveiled), an artistic response to the survivor testimonies gathered and archived as part of NUI Galway’s Tuam oral history project. Photograph: Aengus McMahon Scandal, silence, shame: the careful retelling of a buried story
Irish comedian Dylan Moran. Photograph: Bryan Thomas/New York Times Dylan Moran: ‘I don’t give a f**k about PC. The decisions I take about what I say are mine’
  • What happens when a theatre actor loses a year?
  • All the world is a van: Shakespeare in a time of Covid

Art & Design

The painting was originally attributed in the online catalogue to a 17th-century artist who was a notable follower of Caravaggio. Photograph: Handout ‘The owners’ faces turned pale. They were speechless’: How a €3m painting was discovered

A small oil painting that hung in a home in Spain for decades turned out to be a Caravaggio

Three Graces by Gabriel Hayes on Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin. Ireland’s sculptures: Where are the women?
Frank Gehry at his architecture studio in Los Angeles. Photograph: Erik Carter/The New York Times Frank Gehry: ‘I'm just free to build, now I don't have to worry about fees’
  • The mystery of the Salvator Mundi: Where has Leonardo da Vinci’s €375m painting gone?
  • The Khmer Rouge controversy: Why colourising old photos is always a falsification of history

Unthinkable

What ‘shows itself’ when you consider a cup of coffee, the phenomenologist asks. Photograph: Getty images Can you suspend belief in everything? An intellectual challenge

Unthinkable: Phenomenology may make your head hurt but it’s trying ‘to teach us to see again’

Fr Sean McDonagh: ‘I am 77 on my next birthday and I ask myself will I end up in some care home where I am being taken up out of bed by a robot each morning?’ Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill 3:48 ‘Should we be buying from Amazon rather than working to keep a place like Nenagh alive?’
Suki Finn, philosopher and editor of Women of Ideas: “The metaphysics of pregnancy is of great importance, not only to pregnant metaphysicians, but to all of us, given that we are all the result of a pregnancy.” Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?
  • Do we really care about right and wrong, or are we just virtue signalling?
  • Telling men to open up is not enough – teach them how

Heritage

‘Moore Street and its immediate surroundings have suffered from decades of neglect,’ said the Green Party. File photograph: The Irish Times Conservation protections planned for Moore Street

Councillors agree emergency motion to initiate change to Dublin city development plan

The treaty makers, December 6th, 1921: Including Arthur Griffith, Eamonn Duggan, Michael Collins, Robert Barton; standing, Gavan Duffy. Photograph: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two
The historical Éire sign in Howth which is being restored. File photograph: Enda O’Dowd Work to restore Éire sign from second World War begins at Howth Head
  • The legacy of bitterness caused by the 1981 hunger strikes continues
  • What Bobby Sands means to me: ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’

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

Labhraíonn Evelyn O’Rourke go hoscailte agus go deisbhéalach faoina scéal féin ina clár teilifíse ‘Evelyn O’Rourke: Ailse & Ise’ Ailse & Ise: Spléachadh ar sheirbhísí ailse do mhná in Éirinn

Agus minicíocht na hailse i measc an phobail ag dul i méid tá dúshláin mhóra roimh an tseirbhís sláinte i gcónaí.

‘Is iad na hamhráin agus na bailéid a fhaigheann leathantas guth an phobail abhus seachas a mbíonn de dhíospóireacht ann idir an académie agus an université mar a bhí san Fhrainc.’ Prionsa an Chomhraic
Is cinnte go mbeidh athruithe bunúsacha agus smaointeoireacht nua ag teastáil má táthar chun freastal a dhéanamh go cóir ar phobal na Gaeilge. Gá le héiteas dátheangach a thógáil ón mbun arís
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  • Easpa Gardaí le Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht tuairiscithe

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An Post with the Irish Book Awards, and Accenture with Paul Harrison and Fuchsia MacAree show true commitment and follow-through on both artistic and business objectives

Dublin Dance Festival launches Summer 2021 Edition Dublin Dance Festival launches Summer 2021 Edition

Dublin Dance Festival is back with a new selection of fresh, daring and courageous dance online from May 18th-30th

Subscriber Only

President Michael D Higgins at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Photograph: Chris Bellew Reclaiming the European Street: Collection of President Higgins’s speeches on Europe
Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition follows his Dylan Thomas Prize winning 2017 debut Kumukanda. Poetry round-up: Shetland landscapes to river gods
Jon McGregor: has a reputation for being a writer’s writer, and frequently stuns with how eloquent he can make ineloquence. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Lean Fall Stand: Eloquent mapping of geographer’s disorientation

Most Read in Culture

1 The Jeremy Kyle Show ran for 14 years. Photograph: ITV ‘It was a ticking timebomb’: Inside the rise and fall of The Jeremy Kyle Show

2 Madonna: rude, raucous and hard to pin down. Photograph: Miramax In Bed with Madonna 30 years on: Nastily funny, openly horny

3 Motherland: Almost every character is a fed-up mother Motherland: Sparkling wine o’clock wit from Sharon Horgan

4 Being autistic isn’t like being in a straitjacket; being autistic in an aggressively neurotypical society is. Photograph: Sergi Nunez/iStock/Getty You’re 16. Diagnosis is like suddenly being allowed to try to free yourself from a straitjacket

5 ‘It would require an anthropologist of some diligence to weed out the fewer Northern Irishisms from the many Ulsterisms.’ Photograph: Getty If we can’t agree on a name, does Northern Ireland even exist?

6 Ardal O’Hanlon: has a talent for looking like the most guileless person on the planet. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times Do the Irish really swear more than other nations? Who gives a f***

7 Author Louise Nealon: Despite her obvious talent, she encountered much discouragement along the way. Louise Nealon: ‘There is an overwhelming silence and shame in Irish culture’

8 Belfast. Photograph: iStock Belfast

9 Claire McGowan: “I’m part of the problem, I’ll admit, as it wouldn’t have occurred to me to set a women’s fiction novel in Belfast, had my editor not suggested it.” Photograph: Jamie Drew The Troubles are not the North’s only story

10 Cousins Fanny (Emily Beecham, right) and Linda (Lily James) are so close they take baths together Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too

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Music Quiz

The Music Quiz: Which Irish punk band did Rory Gallagher once record with? The Music Quiz: Which Irish punk band did Rory Gallagher once record with?

Plus: Kurt Cobain’s best in the world and the hard rockers condemned by Russia

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
 

The Books Podcast

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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

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
Christopher Plummer holds his Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Beginners in the press room at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California in February 2012. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images Christopher Plummer: A career in pictures
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