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My Best Friend’s Wedding: my 12-year-old niece takes exception to almost the entire plot of Rupert Everett and Julia Roberts’s romcom Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, Cameron Diaz: These are terrible, terrible people
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Eoin Butler
  • September 17, 2021, 05:00

My Best Friend’s Wedding seemed fine in 1990s. But is the woke Ted Lasso any better?

Brendan O’Connor sharpens the skewers, helped by a hapless Conor Lenihan Brendan O’Connor sharpens the skewers, helped by a hapless Conor Lenihan
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • September 17, 2021, 05:00

Radio: RTÉ host does a good line in disdain when proceedings threaten to get too cosy

Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern Ireland Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern Ireland
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • September 16, 2021, 23:59

TV review: The comedian explores the North’s centenary in One Hundred Years of Union

Why American monsters talk to Michael Wolff Why American monsters talk to Michael Wolff
  • Books
  • Ben Smith
  • September 17, 2021, 06:00

In his new book, the Fire and Fury author continues to tease out stories from men in power

I was a sporting klutz. Then rowing made me I was a sporting klutz. Then rowing made me
  • Books
  • David Hickey
  • September 17, 2021, 05:50

David Hickey, author of The Trinity College VIII, on the sport that changed his life

Freight Dogs: The fate of an ordinary person during Africa’s decade of violence Freight Dogs: The fate of an ordinary person during Africa’s decade of violence
  • Books
  • Kevin Power
  • September 17, 2021, 06:00

Book review: Giles Foden is a novelist for whom history is a real presence

The Movie Quiz: Which hit film was the name of a classic Seinfeld episode? The Movie Quiz: Which hit film was the name of a classic Seinfeld episode?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • September 17, 2021, 07:36

Plus: Which pair shares the record for most best acting Oscar noms without a win?

James Vincent McMorrow: Grapefruit Season – Fertile hope and abandon James Vincent McMorrow: Grapefruit Season – Fertile hope and abandon
  • Music
  • Andrea Cleary
  • September 17, 2021, 05:00

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Latest Film

Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards The Movie Quiz: Which hit film was the name of a classic Seinfeld episode?
Kirsten Dunst. Photograph: Erik Carter/The New York Times Kirsten Dunst: ‘I haven’t slept through the night in months. I have an eye twitch, too’
Orla Brady: ‘I wasn’t that confident in the beginning, but anyone in this business has to have a little bit of belief tucked away somewhere’ Orla Brady: ‘I felt Ireland was a very repressive place to be a woman’
  • Twenty new films worth going back to the cinema for
  • Mélanie Laurent: ‘My brain always, always goes to directing first’

TV & Radio

Brendan O’Connor. Photograph: Kinlan Photography. Brendan O’Connor sharpens the skewers, helped by a hapless Conor Lenihan

Radio: RTÉ host does a good line in disdain when proceedings threaten to get too cosy

My Best Friend’s Wedding: my 12-year-old niece takes exception to almost the entire plot of Rupert Everett and Julia Roberts’s romcom Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, Cameron Diaz: These are terrible, terrible people
Patrick Kielty’s heartfelt film swings between optimism and despair Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern Ireland
  • Cheap Irish Homes: ‘There’s great value out there all over the country’
  • Piers Morgan signs global deal with News Corp and Fox News Media

Latest Books

Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, in his home in Greenwich Village. Photograph: Todd Heisler/The New York Times Why American monsters talk to Michael Wolff

In his new book, the Fire and Fury author continues to tease out stories from men in power

I was a sporting klutz. Then rowing made me
The Red Line Book Festival runs from October 11th to 17th with many leading writers taking part Border Literatures; Red Line Book Festival; Novel Fair 2022; Eigse Michael Hartnett
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles: A personal view by illustrator Jonathan Barry
  • Love Sally Rooney? Then we think you’ll also love these 12 other Irish writers

Film Reviews

Ann Skelly Rose Plays Julie

 
Mark Cousins The Story of Looking

 
Talented newcomer Max Harwood plays Jamie, a sweet teenager who dreams of a world of feathers and sparkle Everybody's Talking about Jamie

 
Lou de Laâge and Mélanie Laurent in The Mad Women's Ball The Mad Women's Ball

 

Latest Music

Nealo: ‘I used to listen to a lot more podcasts, but at the moment I’m really enjoying music’ ‘My mam used to play Simon and Garfunkel. That was the best introduction to music’

Dublin rapper Nealo shares his Spotify playlist of favourite tracks

No sooner has Electric Picnic sank from view than Brooks has popped up to once again to potentially stalk our every waking moment. Photograph: J Kempin/FilmMagic Garth Brooks, you are welcome here. But no drama, please – we’ve been through too much
Cover art for Fleetwood Mac’s two-album Tusk (1979) The Music Quiz: Which US cult band covered Fleetwood Mac’s epic Tusk?
  • Alanis Morissette: I was a victim of multiple statutory rapes as a teenager
  • Lindsey Buckingham on Stevie Nicks: ‘I’d like to think there’s a better way for us to finish up’

Book Reviews

Freight Dogs: The fate of an ordinary person during Africa’s decade of violence
Misfits: A manifesto for change in the entertainment industry
Nanny, Ma & Me: An Irish Story of Family, Race and Home – Search for belonging in a changing society
The Sisters Mao by Gavin McCrea: All the world’s a stage

Stage

Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Tonic, by Fionn Foley, staged at Dublin Castle by Rough Magic. Photograph: Jed Niezgoda Tonic: The utopia of 2021, revisited with the Amazing Calibri Triplet Family Band

Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Fionn Foley and Rough Magic’s production is a collaboration of comedic and musical talent

Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Rescue Annie. Photograph: Ste Murray Rescue Annie: A grim history of loneliness
Junk Ensemble performing in The Veiled Ones. Photograph: Luca Truffarelli The Veiled Ones: Not all witches are bad
  • Masterclass: A magnificent send-up of the anxieties of the age
  • Staging the Treaty: This marathon production will recreate debates a century later

Art & Design

Izzy Wheels was founded by Galway sisters Izzy and Ailbhe Keane to help bridge the gap between disability and style Disney x Izzy: Irish sisters team up with film studio to design wheelchair wheel covers

Izzy Wheels spokeguards include characters from Frozen, The Lion King and the Avengers

Oisín McKenna In Speak Softly, Go Far audience members are invited to go to a place in Dublin that was important to them, but which is now gone. Walking through a Dublin city I no longer recognise
Head curator Brendan Rooney, director Sean Rainbird and curator Donal Maguire at the launch of the National Gallery’s newest exhibition, Jack B Yeats: Painting & Memory. Photograph: Alan Betson Launch of Jack B Yeats exhibition a red letter day for National Gallery of Ireland
  • Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: A staggering new view of the Troubles
  • Imma at 30: Reframing the role of exhibitionist in a changing landscape

Unthinkable

Anil Seth: ‘Things exist. The world is real. It is the way it appears to us in our experience that’s a construction.’ Is your sense of reality in fact a hallucination?

Unthinkable: We don’t know how consciousness works, but some theories are better than others

‘Smell is almost like touching the invisible world.’ Photograph: Getty How well do you understand your sense of smell? Try these three experiments
British prime minister Boris Johnson: “It is not possible for politicians to make reliable decisions about the present and future without knowing, understanding and telling the truth about the past.” Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK parliament/Getty Can a bad historian be a good politician?
  • Short of staycation ideas? Try a pilgrimage to Irish philosophy sites
  • Was Ireland’s greatest philosopher a hero, villain or ‘man of his time’?

Heritage

Trevor White, director of the Little Museum of Dublin: ‘One of our challenges is to make people look at themselves anew.’ Photograph: Simon O’Connor Starting a museum: 10 lessons I learned in 10 years

The Little Museum of Dublin, founded in 2011, is the people’s museum of the capital

Kevin Devlin stands on the pitch at St Enda’s GAA club in Glengormley which is named after his brother Gerry, who was killed by a loyalist gunman at the club in 1997. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker GAA and the Troubles: Remembering club members killed in the conflict
Stasi material at the headquarters of the East German state security apparatus in Normannenstrasse, Berlin. The material includes files on individuals as well as jars in which odour examples from individuals were preserved. Photograph: PF Hullstein bild via Getty Images Accessible Stasi archive offers a model for Catholic Ireland’s troubled past
  • Underground Dublin: A pilgrimage through an ancient tunnel network
  • Charles Haughey’s Civil War trauma: ‘The country owes them more than starvation’

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 ionann boilsciú grád sna scrúduithe stáit agus nach ionann an luach mar a bhíodh nuair a bhí an caighdeán óir sin ann fadó.’ Boilsciú agus bladar

Ní raibh caighdeán óir scrúdaithe riamh ann.

Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988): Saol na cathrach a thug ar an Direánach feiceáil úrnua a thabhairt ar shaol an oileáin. Grianghraf: RTÉ Codarsnacht agus cosúlacht
Phil Lynott (1949 - 1986). Grianghraf: Getty. An Fiolar Dubh
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  • ‘Is mó an chosaint atá ag an seilide’

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The late Scottish writer William McIlvanney. His half-finished manuscript has been completed by Ian Rankin and published as The Dark Remains. Photograph: Drew Farrell/Photoshot/Getty Images September’s best new crime fiction: Ian Rankin finishes off a William McIlvanney manuscript
Anil Seth: ‘Things exist. The world is real. It is the way it appears to us in our experience that’s a construction.’ Is your sense of reality in fact a hallucination?

Most Read in Culture

1 My Best Friend’s Wedding: my 12-year-old niece takes exception to almost the entire plot of Rupert Everett and Julia Roberts’s romcom Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, Cameron Diaz: These are terrible, terrible people

2 Patrick Kielty’s heartfelt film swings between optimism and despair Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern Ireland

3 Brendan O’Connor. Photograph: Kinlan Photography. Brendan O’Connor sharpens the skewers, helped by a hapless Conor Lenihan

4 Kevin McCloud on Grand Designs: ‘It’s the last great big adventure that we can all go on, and, therefore, we all connect to the idea of that.’ Photograph: Channel 4 Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud: ‘I’m proud but poor. I invested a vast amount in that business’

5 Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, in his home in Greenwich Village. Photograph: Todd Heisler/The New York Times Why American monsters talk to Michael Wolff

6 Culture Night invites everyone to ‘come together again’ on Friday, September 17th. Photograph: Maxwells Culture Night 2021: 21 events to catch on Friday, right around Ireland

7 Kirsten Dunst. Photograph: Erik Carter/The New York Times Kirsten Dunst: ‘I haven’t slept through the night in months. I have an eye twitch, too’

8 Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards The Movie Quiz: Which hit film was the name of a classic Seinfeld episode?

9 I was a sporting klutz. Then rowing made me

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Music Quiz

The Music Quiz: Which US cult band covered Fleetwood Mac’s epic Tusk? The Music Quiz: Which US cult band covered Fleetwood Mac’s epic Tusk?

Plus: Who has scored the soundtrack to the new Princess Diana biopic?

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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Galleries

Errigal Nightscape, by Patryk Sadowski: the night sky at Loch an Ghainimh, or Lough Agannive, in Co Donegal, with Mount Errigal in the background Reach for the Stars: The best of Irish astrophotography
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
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