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From left, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib listen as Ilhan Omar speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. US president Donald Trump refers to the four Democrats as ‘the squad’. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times) Why are some people reluctant to call Donald Trump racist?
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • July 17, 2019, 15:38

TCD sociology lecturer Dr David Ralph on what constitutes racism and why we are not living in a ‘post-racial nirvana’

Love Island: Who is the new Irish contestant and will he end up in a love triangle? Love Island: Who is the new Irish contestant and will he end up in a love triangle?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Tanya Sweeney
  • July 17, 2019, 14:08

The rugby player says he is looking for love, but will he end up in another love triangle?

Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’ Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’
  • Music
  • Eamon Sweeney
  • July 17, 2019, 06:00

New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring

Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 17, 2019, 09:59

A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying

Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
  • Culture
  • July 17, 2019, 13:19

Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations

The Lion King: Ruined by slavish devotion to the original The Lion King: Ruined by slavish devotion to the original
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 16, 2019, 10:15

Review: It’s technically remarkable but the characters are weak and the story a carbon copy

Easy Rider at 50: ‘Unwatchable’ – unless you’re stoned Easy Rider at 50: ‘Unwatchable’ – unless you’re stoned
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 16, 2019, 13:30

In July 1969, Dennis Hopper’s movie baffled the suits, freaked out audiences and made a fortune

Range: Forget the ‘10,000 hours’ rule – there’s another way to succeed Range: Forget the ‘10,000 hours’ rule – there’s another way to succeed
  • Books
  • Alan Murrin
  • July 16, 2019, 06:00

Book review: David Epstein argues that early specialisation is not essential to success

Least Like the Other – Searching for Rosemary Kennedy review: Deeply moving Least Like the Other – Searching for Rosemary Kennedy review: Deeply moving
  • Music
  • Michael Dungan
  • July 16, 2019, 12:30

The gut-wrenching, experimental telling of the story of JFK’s hidden sister

Freya Ridings: ‘I wasn’t cool when I was younger. No one wanted anything from me’ Freya Ridings: ‘I wasn’t cool when I was younger. No one wanted anything from me’
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 16, 2019, 06:00

‘Going to the piano room and just writing became a thing I did during any stormy time in my life’

Latest Film

Made for $400,000, Easy Rider took $60 million at the box office Easy Rider at 50: ‘Unwatchable’ – unless you’re stoned
Jack Reynor’s horror short ‘Bainne’. Photograph: Madeline Mulqueen Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’
Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris and Lashana Lynch at the Bond 25 film launch in Jamaica. Photograph: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures James Bond: Is a black female actor really the ‘new 007’?
  • Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
  • Ron Howard: ‘Bono said Pavarotti was an emotional arm wrestler – he’d break your f**king arm’

Film Reviews

The Lion King, featuring the voices of James Earl Jones as Mufasa, and JD McCrary as Young Simba The Lion King

 
Luciano Pavarotti with Princess Diana Pavarotti

 
Carlos Reygadas has refused to disclose how precisely autobiographical his new film’s scenario is, but all the indications are it’s very autobiographical Our Time

 
For some reason Annabelle Comes Home has no faith in the titular central doll, even though its director, Gary Dauberman, co-wrote all three Annabelle films Annabelle Comes Home

 

TV & Radio

Greg O’Shea, the newest resident of the villa on Love Island. Photograph: Instagram Love Island: Who is the new Irish contestant and will he end up in a love triangle?

The rugby player says he is looking for love, but will he end up in another love triangle?

Greg O’Shea enters the Love Island villa 0:24 Greg O’Shea enters the Love Island villa
‘Why didn’t I marry an ordinary man?’ asks Demelza, who has been Poldark’s charge, his servant, and, not always faithfully, his wife Poldark: Aidan Turner passes his James Bond audition
  • Roisin Conaty: ‘I feel more Irish than British’
  • Galway International Arts Festival: The must-see events

Latest Music

Bernard Sumner: ‘I was 17 and worked in a general office, thinking, ‘Jesus, to quote a Peggy Lee song, is this all there is?’. Photograph: Warren Jackson Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’

New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring

Kate Nash relocated to Los Angeles and is now recording music and acting ‘Making music keeps me alive, being in the music industry almost killed me’
UK singer and songwriter Freya Ridings Freya Ridings: ‘I wasn’t cool when I was younger. No one wanted anything from me’
  • Bob Dylan and Neil Young: Best moments of the Kilkenny gig
  • Pillow Queens' Pamela Connolly: ‘I hope Dublin will be a liveable place for artists’

Album Reviews

The artwork for Ed Sheeran’s No 6 Collaborations Project. Ed Sheeran: No 6 Collaborations Project

 
Freya Ridings: Freya Ridings

 
New Order + Liam Gillick: ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) So it Goes

 
The Quiet Temple: The Quiet Temple

 
Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains

 
eur(elle): Dark Chromatic

 

Latest Books

Kealan Ryan: Almost daily I receive messages from people dealing with loss or pain, be it through similar circumstances in the book or otherwise. ‘I have spent the last several years contemplating what it might be like to be dead’

The narrator of The Middle Place by Kealan Ryan is dead, killed by a single punch, so at last he can be himself

Iris Murdoch: Each of her novels shows us our mundane world in a new, strange and magical light; while the influence of her philosophy is still growing. Photograph: Hulton Getty Iris Murdoch’s deep but twisted Irish roots
Jo Nesbo, author of the Harry Hole detective crime novels, pictured on December 9th, 2018. Photograph: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images Jo Nesbo: ‘The details of a murder don’t really disturb me’
  • Old favourites: The Archaic Revival (1991) by Terence McKenna
  • Crime fiction round-up: If you’re going to steal a title, steal from Chandler

Book Reviews

Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first love
Range: Forget the ‘10,000 hours’ rule – there’s another way to succeed
Women’s Work: The rigged, claustrophobic childminder system
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: When egos clashed in the golden age of the Woodstock

Stage

Karl Shiels appeared in RTÉ’s Fair City, and in many stage productions. Photograph: RTE/PA Wire Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock

A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) comes to Galway International Arts Festival later this month. Photograph: Steve Tanner Dead Dog in a Suitcase: High-octane theatre for turbulent times
Kneehigh Theatre perform Dead Dog in a Suitcase at Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, July 16th-20th. Photograph: Steve Tanner Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this week
  • Brendan Grace: The best bits from a life in comedy
  • Comedian Brendan Grace had ‘the kindest, kindest heart’

Art & Design

Nadim Asfar, Leporello. PhotoIreland 2019 Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick film

Visual art reviews: Transcendence in Mayo from David Quinn and pop-up museum of photography

A Mummer’s Banquet (detail), painted aluminium panel, by John Kindness Art in Focus – A Mummers’ Banquet (detail) by John Kindness
An image from ‘Labourers’ Cottages of County Wexford’, at the Irish Architectural Archive Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows
  • Galway arts festival pop-up gallery: a cathedral of light, height and art
  • Valérie Blass: Figurative fragments of a double-life world

Unthinkable

Modern mindfulness ‘is complicit with a neoliberal ethos of self-responsibility that reinforces systems of oppression and injustice’. Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism?

Unthinkable: Ronald E Purser warns against the rise of ethically neutral and self-absorbed spiritual practises

‘If you go from the Skelligs to the Giant’s Causeway, everything about the land has a mythological surface to it.’ Photograph: David Sleator Ireland can manage without the church but can it do without myths?
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines. ‘The prospect of being at the mercy of a future super-intelligence seems entirely realistic,’ says Malcolm Bull. Photograph: Reuters/Warner Bros Why humans need mercy more than justice to survive
  • Should children be taught to be patriotic?
  • The greatest Irish thinker you’ve never read? It could be this man

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

Commemorative plaque at former home of Countess Markievicz in Rathmines. L-R, Lord Mayor Paul McAuliffe, Charles and Olivia Crichton-Stuart, great grandniece of Markievicz, and their children Angus (9) and Amelia (7). Photograph: Tom Honan Commemorative plaque unveiled on 1916 home of Constance Markievicz

Rathmines house ‘more of an army HQ than a home’

Gate lodge to the Jewish cemetery on Fairview Strand: Founded in 1718, it is one of the earliest surviving Jewish burial grounds in Ireland or Britain. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd Ireland’s oldest Jewish cemetery to reopen after 40 years
The Gaelic footballers and fans who refused to fight in the Great War
  • When will people go back to the Moon?
  • The difference between the average unionist and average nationalist? Not much

Tuarascáil

Mick Jagger agus na Rolling Stones i bPáirc an Chrócaigh anuraidh. Chasadar i mBaile Átha Cliath i 1965. Grianghraf: Nick Bradshaw Málaí

Ba mhór idir na haimsirí, is mór idir na faisin, agus is é an faisean a rialaíonn an saol

Tá Berlin ‘faoi choimirce Aingeal na Síochána arís’. Grianghraif: Getty Berlin: Cathair nua-aimseartha atá báite sa stair
Óglaigh na hÉireann. Grianghraf: Aidan Crawley Cén fáth a bhfuilimid in Mali?
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2 Karl Shiels appeared in RTÉ’s Fair City, and in many stage productions. Photograph: RTE/PA Wire Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
3 Greg O’Shea, the newest resident of the villa on Love Island. Photograph: Instagram Love Island: Who is the new Irish contestant and will he end up in a love triangle?
4 Ian Duhig with brothers Kevin (left) and Adrian and sister Geraldine in about 1962 Second-generation Irish: ‘We were outsiders among the English – and the Irish too’
5 Sound of Music (1965)Julie Andrews The real Sound of Music: Maria was no ‘flibbertigibbet’ and she didn’t teach the kids songs
6 Neil Young and Bob Dylan on stage together at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, on Sunday. Photograph: Raphael Pour-Hashemi Neil Young and Bob Dylan on stage together at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, on Sunday. Photograph: Raphael Pour-Hashemi Bob Dylan smiles on Kilkenny, but the night belongs to Neil Young
7 From left, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib listen as Ilhan Omar speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. US president Donald Trump refers to the four Democrats as ‘the squad’. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times) Why are some people reluctant to call Donald Trump racist?
8 Brendan Grace preparing before his show in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in 1986. Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty Images) Brendan Grace: The best bits from a life in comedy
9 “Deep concern and dissatisfaction”: the Abbey Theatre’s directors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
10 Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris and Lashana Lynch at the Bond 25 film launch in Jamaica. Photograph: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures James Bond: Is a black female actor really the ‘new 007’?
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