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  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Sorcha Pollak
  • October 24, 2020, 06:00

Opinion: Online abuse of women must be tackled, by law and by the platforms that publish it

Roddy Doyle’s Nurse – an exclusive new short story Roddy Doyle’s Nurse – an exclusive new short story
  • Books
  • Roddy Doyle
  • October 24, 2020, 06:00

‘The zip on a body bag. It’s not like any zip she’s heard before’

Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce Springsteen Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce Springsteen
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • October 24, 2020, 10:33

Review: The Chief Medical Officer gets star billing above Springsteen and McConaughey

Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’ Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • October 24, 2020, 05:00

The actor on her impoverished childhood, love for Daniel Day Lewis, and admiration for #metoo

There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised? There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 24, 2020, 14:02

Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist art

From the past to modernity: images of Ireland transforming From the past to modernity: images of Ireland transforming
  • Visual Art
  • Fintan O'Toole
  • October 24, 2020, 05:00

Martin Parr’s work portrays socio-cultural shift from conformism

Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’ Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
  • Film
  • Maureen Dowd
  • October 23, 2020, 16:25

The Borat actor on his new film and why he is reluctant to be a celebrity

Level 5 lockdown TV: From The Crown to Dead Still, the ultimate guide to what to watch 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

Inspiring the generation of tomorrow Inspiring the generation of tomorrow
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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

Latest Film

Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’
Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
Bill Murray and director Sofia Coppola on the set of On the Rocks Four new films to stream this weekend
  • The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?
  • Ben Wheatley: ‘Films can’t all be about people being bludgeoned to death’

TV & Radio

Tony Holohan: his relationship with Varadkar is ‘very good’ Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce Springsteen

Review: The Chief Medical Officer gets star billing above Springsteen and McConaughey

keyboard ‘In 2018 I wrote publicly about my heritage. Soon after, the anti-Semitic messages began’
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
  • Rising Time’s Shay Byrne is so glum he makes Morning Ireland seem cheerful
  • What Terence MacSwiney’s body went through during his 74-day hunger strike

Latest Books

An execution of witches in England, 17th century. Photograph: Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty YA fiction: Witches, goddesses and cheerleaders for Halloween

Plus new thrills from Finbar Hawkins, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Bill Konigsberg and Nikita Gill

Barry Geraghty. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Barry Geraghty: What the queen taught me about horse racing
Franz Kafka silkscreen by Andy Warhol: His ability to make strange our common misery taught me I was not alone. Photograph: Katherine Frey/Washington Post The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann
  • Martina Cox: ‘In my eyes, Seán was always coming home’
  • Roddy Doyle’s Nurse – an exclusive new short story

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

Tom Stoppard: A Life – A great biography of a great playwright
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

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

Irishness has always been to some extent a performance, whether of piety or of revelry, of sophistication or of simplicity. Photograph: Martin Parr From the past to modernity: images of Ireland transforming

Martin Parr’s work portrays socio-cultural shift from conformism

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
The Potter’s Shop, Clonakilty, 1980s. Photograph: Jane Forrester Bohemian blow-ins: Crafting an arts movement in west Cork
  • Why I made a new Irish Tree Alphabet
  • Rankin: U2’s second-favourite photographer on his brushes with fame

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

The Cork funeral for the city’s mayor Terence MacSwiney in 1920. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images The three funerals of Terence MacSwiney

The events, each with thousands of mourners, were key moments in the battle for independence

Hilary Mantel calls for skeleton of Irish ‘giant’ to be repatriated
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
  • Co-living development ‘will destroy’ North Great George’s Street
  • Approval for redevelopment and restoration of Old Library in Trinity College

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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  • Glór an Fhómhair: ó mheabhairshláinte go cúrsaí faisean inbhuanaithe

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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 Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’
2 Tony Holohan: his relationship with Varadkar is ‘very good’ Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce Springsteen
3 A nurse wearing protective equipment comforts another as they change shifts. Photograph: Paolo Miranda/AFP via Getty Images Roddy Doyle’s Nurse – an exclusive new short story
4 keyboard ‘In 2018 I wrote publicly about my heritage. Soon after, the anti-Semitic messages began’
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 Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
7 The Cork funeral for the city’s mayor Terence MacSwiney in 1920. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images The three funerals of Terence MacSwiney
8 Tom Stoppard in London, 2018. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Tom Stoppard: A Life – A great biography of a great playwright
9 Kerry’s own Jessie Buckley in I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Photograph: Netflix Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
10 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?
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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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