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Il Bravo: nominated for best opera and best costumes. Photograph: Clive Barda/ArenaPal The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
  • Stage
  • January 19, 2019, 05:00

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

‘The Simpsons’ at long last is finally dead ‘The Simpsons’ at long last is finally dead
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Seamas O'Reilly
  • January 19, 2019, 05:00

The meming of life: Poking the show with a stick in search of answers is now officially fruitless

Gillette ad: If you can annoy Piers Morgan you are guaranteed free publicity Gillette ad: If you can annoy Piers Morgan you are guaranteed free publicity
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 19, 2019, 05:00

Donald Clarke: Morgan floats above the melee on waves of manufactured indignation

Saoirse Ronan: ‘I never got cast for my looks’ Saoirse Ronan: ‘I never got cast for my looks’
  • Film
  • Rachel Cooke
  • January 18, 2019, 06:00

The Irish actor on Mary Queen of Scots, a changing Ireland and playing oddballs

Glass: M Night Shyamalan goes on the downward slide again Glass: M Night Shyamalan goes on the downward slide again
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 18, 2019, 05:15

Review: If James McAvoy tried any harder in this film he’d burst a blood vessel

Death Cab for Cutie: ‘We’re an indie band from Seattle, where Republicans basically don’t exist’ Death Cab for Cutie: ‘We’re an indie band from Seattle, where Republicans basically don’t exist’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • January 18, 2019, 06:10

Death Cab for Cutie have survived a lot. So a Trump backlash was the least of their worries

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 18, 2019, 05:30

New this weekend: Monsters and Men, Beautiful Boy, Mary Queen of Scots

Rosie Carney: A brilliant young artist starts to bloom Rosie Carney: A brilliant young artist starts to bloom
  • Album Reviews
  • December 18, 2018, 06:00

Bare review: A gorgeous song cycle from the Donegal singer that runs the gamut of life, love and loss

The movie quiz: Which film did not win a Golden Globe last week? The movie quiz: Which film did not win a Golden Globe last week?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 18, 2019, 05:00

Also: What is now the highest grossing film in the DC Extended Universe?

Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83 Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83
  • Books
  • Margalit Fox
  • January 18, 2019, 05:00

Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics

Latest Film

Saoirse Ronan: 'I was just a kid who was in stuff, and was very lucky to be that.' Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Saoirse Ronan: ‘I never got cast for my looks’
New this week: Saoirse Ronan in Mary, Queen of Scots Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
The thin blue line: Anthony Ramos and John David Washington in Monsters and Men Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • The movie quiz: Which film did not win a Golden Globe last week?
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home first trailer revealed

Film Reviews

Samuel L Jackson, James McAvoy and Bruce Willis in ‘Glass’ Glass

 
Chanté Adams and Kelvin Harrison jnr Monsters and Men

 
Timothée Chalamet as Nicholas in Beautiful Boy Beautiful Boy

 
Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened

 

Latest Music

Suzanne Purcell: “I try to seek a piano hook in everything I do now with Pursued by Dogs” This Album Changed My Life: Tegan and Sara – The Con (2007)

Suzanne Purcell of Pursued by Dogs on a release that reaffirmed the power of music

New artist of the week: Maynooth-based boys Matt O’Baoill and Max Zanga AKA Tebi Rex New artist of the week: Tebi Rex
Death Cab For Cutie are at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on Thursday Book your death cab now: the week’s best rock and pop gigs
  • Boyzone: It’ll be a tear-filled and bittersweet goodbye
  • Fab foursome on tour: This week’s traditional music highlights

Album Reviews

Rosie Carney: Bare

 
Various Artists: All the Young Droogs

 
Bouts: Flow

 
Death Cab for Cutie: Thank You for Today

 
Subjective: Act 1: Music for Inanimate Objects

 
Steve Gunn: The Unseen in Between

 

Latest Books

YA fiction reviews: Explore horrors of different kinds

Books by Chelsea Pitcher, Karen M McManus, David Owen, Lisa Williamson and Natasha Ngan

Lady Gregory in 1911: her good friend George Bernard Shaw once called her “the greatest living Irishwoman”. Photograph: Hulton Getty A reappraisal of Lady Gregory
Buy Fire and Fury by Michael Woolf for just €4.99 with The Irish Times at Eason
  • ‘You’re overqualified’: Job rejection feedback explained
  • Why women’s fiction deserves a better press

Book Reviews

Counterparts review: disturbing portrayals of human condition
Dictionary of Irish Biography, Vols 10 & 11: Bringing the dead to life – warts and all
How religion shaped Ireland’s cultural heritage
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life review: Zesty, zeitgeisty humour with real insight

TV & Radio

Benjamin Partridge, producer and voice of The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast of week: The Beef and Dairy Network

Who knew talking about farming could be so weird and hilarous?

Sean O’Rourke: excited at the prospect of getting stuck into the Brexit action Sean O’Rourke and the judge who is ‘a law unto himself’
Homer sends Lisa a gif of himself retreating backwards into a hedge – does this mean Homer watches The Simpsons? ‘The Simpsons’ at long last is finally dead
  • Weekend TV guide: 7 of the best shows to watch
  • Schitt’s Creek: the funniest sitcom you’re (probably) not watching

Stage

Il Bravo: nominated for best opera and best costumes. Photograph: Clive Barda/ArenaPal The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards judges Paula Shields (centre), Catriona Crowe (second from right) and Ella Daly (far right) with, from far left, Gerard McNaughton and Ruth McCarthy of Tilestyle. Photograph: Tom Honan Abbey leads the field in Irish Times Irish Theatre Award nominations
Tim Firth and Gary Barlow with the cast of Calendar Girls including Rebecca Storm. Fern Britton, Sara Crowe, Denise Welch, Ruth Madoc, Karen Dunbar and Anna Jane Casey Gary Barlow: ‘It’s different now. You don’t get people outside your house’
  • View from the UK: What does it mean to be a national theatre?
  • A performer’s life: ‘It’s like starting over and over and over on a zero-hour contract’

Art & Design

Endlessly changing: one configuration of 77 Million Paintings, by Brian Eno Art in Focus: Brian Eno – 77 Million Paintings

Brian Eno’s music and image installation has been endlessly reinventing itself since 2006

The Venetian by Sven Sandberg, at Berlin Opticians Gallery The five best art exhibitions to visit in Dublin this weekend
Artwork by Banksy found in Tailbach in Port Talbot, Wales. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Wire Banksy artwork painted on side of garage sold for six-figure sum
  • Saving seeds: the connection between two very different locations
  • Berthe Morisot: ‘I have sinned, I have suffered, I have atoned’

Unthinkable

“Being able to identify yourself as part of nature without being laughed at... [is] a huge shift.” Photograph: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert In despair over climate change? Try ‘active hope’

Unthinkable: Less focus on outcomes can help to counter pessimism

Even when relaxing, people feel an urge to read something ‘improving’ or useful. Photograph: Noel Hendrickson/Thinkstock/Getty Are humans losing the ability to be idle?
Children prepare for a nativity play: “Religion is filled with fantastical superheroes and stories.” Photograph: Frank Miller Is religion better than atheism as a coping mechanism?
  • What can the West learn from the rest?
  • Is economics corrupting our idea of human worth?

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

No Child 2020: Fintan O’Toole on a new Irish Times initiative

The problems children face in Ireland today, and the policies that could solve them

The popularity of the site has increased since it appeared in the Star Wars film series. Skellig Michael visitor numbers exceed ‘sustainable’ cap by almost 6,000
Maeve’s Cairn: megalithic tomb on a limestone mountain in Co Sligo Hikers putting 5,000-year-old Co Sligo cairn at risk
  • The Way We Were: Hop back in time to Ireland’s original craft beer hipsters
  • Fintan O’Toole: The first murky, inglorious shots of the War of Independence

Treibh

Ceolfhoireann Náisiúnta Óige na hÉireann ag seinnt sa Cheoláras Náisiúnta. Tá sé fós i gceist go dtógfar an t-ionad nua eolaíochta ar thailte an Cheolárais. Griangraif: Mark Stedman Áis eolaíochta náisiúnta?

An mar an gcéanna atá brí an fhocail ‘Náisiúnta’ nuair is institiúid poiblí nó comhlacht gnó atá i gceist?

LinkedIn: ‘Ní foláir nó gur tháinig púca éigin i gcoim na hoíche agus cláraíodh ann mé’ Níl mo ghnúis ar Facebook ná ar Straoisleabhar
Tiocfaidh cluichí gliaireacha ar ais mar spórt mórfhéachana. Tuartha na bliana
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1 Saoirse Ronan: 'I was just a kid who was in stuff, and was very lucky to be that.' Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Saoirse Ronan: ‘I never got cast for my looks’
2 Mainstays of modernism: Ezra Pound, the attorney John Quinn, Ford Maddox Ford and James Joyce in Pound’s Paris studio in 1923. Photograph from Joyce Images, by Bob Cato and Greg Vitiello with an introduction by Anthony Burgess (Norton, 1994) Out of the wasteland: the first World War and modernism
3 Death Cab for Cutie: one of the smartest and subtlest bands in alternative pop Death Cab for Cutie: ‘We’re an indie band from Seattle, where Republicans basically don’t exist’
4 The thin blue line: Anthony Ramos and John David Washington in Monsters and Men Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
5 Warm relationship: Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July. Photograph: Doug Mills/NYT Could Donald Trump really be spying for Vladimir Putin?
6 “We heard a lot of conspiracy theories and we met a lot of people who said: you’ll never finish this film.” The bizarre story of triplets separated at birth finally gets told
7 German troops entering Dunkirk in June 1940. In the film, the emphasis is on melodrama rather than authenticity. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images ‘Dunkirk’ is full of inaccuracies. And then there are omissions
8 From Gillette’s We Believe: The Best Men Can Be commercial Gillette ad causes uproar with men’s rights activists
9 Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: As if in response to being left lingering in paparazzi limbo, Morton peppers the book with snide references to Markle being a consummate networker and social climber. Photograph: Alexi Lubomirski / Handout via Reuters Meghan Markle biography: a fairytale princess story to send you to sleep
10 Taylor Swift’s intentions may be honourable but tangled up within this complicated web of victimhood and tired gossip is her own form of girl power. Taylor Swift: Why is it so difficult to support her?
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