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Game of Thrones: endgame. Photographs: HBO The Game of Thrones debate: Is series 8 a ‘perfect orgy of violence’ or ‘a betrayal’?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • May 19, 2019, 12:26

Seamas O’Reilly and Ed Power argue the merits and demerits of the HBO drama whose final series has divided fans

Cannes 2019: Irish movie Vivarium gets thumbs up from critics Cannes 2019: Irish movie Vivarium gets thumbs up from critics
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 19, 2019, 12:52

Cannes diary: New fund for film-makers; Nicholas Winding Refn says the future is in streaming? Maybe we should just go home and watch telly

Naomi Wolf: ‘Never before have I seen so many threats to free speech. It is chilling’ Naomi Wolf: ‘Never before have I seen so many threats to free speech. It is chilling’
  • Books
  • Fionola Meredith
  • May 18, 2019, 06:00

The author traces the roots of modern censorship via a gay 19th-century poet and the birth of sewerage

Roddy Doyle’s Family stands up as a classic 25 years later Roddy Doyle’s Family stands up as a classic 25 years later
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Hugh Linehan
  • May 18, 2019, 08:00

We hear about TV’s current Golden Age but Family was as great as anything today

Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 18, 2019, 13:45

Vivarium, an Irish science-fiction horror, has world premiere as part of International Critics Week at the film festival

Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 18, 2019, 05:00

Cinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?

John Sheahan: 80 years agrowing John Sheahan: 80 years agrowing
  • Music
  • Siobhan Long
  • May 18, 2019, 05:00

Fiddle player, composer, poet, wood carver, origami enthusiast and true Dubliner

Irish theatre since 1950: what we remember – and what we have forgotten Irish theatre since 1950: what we remember – and what we have forgotten
  • Books
  • Patrick Lonergan
  • May 18, 2019, 06:00

Advances made by one generation frequently had to be fought for again by their successors

Kind of Blue: A glory of 20th century music, reorchestrated in Ireland Kind of Blue: A glory of 20th century music, reorchestrated in Ireland
  • Music
  • Cormac Larkin
  • May 18, 2019, 05:00

Miles Davis gets new arrangements from Guy Barker and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

The male gaze filtered through a young woman's eyes The male gaze filtered through a young woman's eyes
  • Visual Art
  • Aidan Dunne
  • May 18, 2019, 05:00

Margaret Corcoran revisits the National Gallery of Ireland nearly 20 years on from her ground-breaking exhibition An Enquiry

Latest Film

Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn poses during a photocall for the film Too Old To Die Young - North of Hollywood, West of Hell at the 72nd in Cannes. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images Cannes 2019: Irish movie Vivarium gets thumbs up from critics
Taron Egerton and Richard Madden attend the Rocketman press conference during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 17th, 2019 in Cannes, France. Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Cannes 2019: Where the rich shell out for big ticket events
Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots in Vivarium, the Irish film that premiered at Cannes on Saturday Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception
  • ‘Covering the Cannes Festival is the hardest job in the world. Pity Us’
  • Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight

Film Reviews

Derren Nesbitt and Jordan Stephensin Tucked, directed by Jamie Patterson Tucked

 
Carmiña Martínez in Birds of Passage Birds of Passage

 
The Paw Patrol Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups

 
Unauthorised raves: Lorn Macdonald as the madcap Spanner in Beats Beats

 

TV & Radio

Jeremy Kyle Show was axed on Wednesday. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA Wire More Jeremy Kyle Show guests killed themselves, it emerges

TV programme was permanently axed on Wednesday after man killed himself

Game of Thrones: endgame. Photographs: HBO The Game of Thrones debate: Is series 8 a ‘perfect orgy of violence’ or ‘a betrayal’?
Unravelling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell, Thursday on E4 TV guide: 21 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Roddy Doyle’s Family stands up as a classic 25 years later
  • If Today FM was any more lifeless, you’d need to call 999

Latest Music

Protesters hold a demonstration outside the Eurovision 2019 venue in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA Eurovision: Israeli minister criticises shows of Palestinian solidarity

Gestures by Madonna and Icelandic act fail to impress Israeli officials or boycott movement

Duncan Laurence, representing The Netherlands, wins the 64th Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Michael Campanella/Getty Images ‘Like two Abercrombie models at the Wesley disco’: The best and worst of Eurovision 2019
Duncan Laurence, representing Netherlands, performs live on stage during the 64th annual Eurovision Song Contest. Photograph: Michael Campanella/Getty Images The Netherlands has won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest
  • Girl Power: Spice Girls have cemented their place in music history
  • Veterans, virtuosos and vibrant young guns: this week’s jazz highlights

Album Reviews

The National: I Am Easy to Find

 
Joan as Police Woman: Joanthology

 
Colm Mac Con Iomaire: The River Holds Its Breath: Tost ar an Abhainn

 
Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated

 
In Their Thousands: Acrasia

 
Aleka: Person I Knew

 

Latest Books

French author Annie Ernaux at home in June 1992. Photograph: Getty Images Literature in translation: the examined life is still worth living

Reviews: Celestial Bodies, The Shape of the Ruins and The Years

Dave Duggan’s Oak and Stone kicks off as a kind of homage to the quirky black comedy of Colin Bateman. Crime fiction round-up: Dave Duggan’s thriller begins on a football pitch
French writer and winner of the International Prize for Literature, Nathalie Sarraute, May 4th, 1964. Author of The Golden Fruits. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Tropisms (1939) by Nathalie Sarraute, translated by Maria Jolas
  • Naomi Wolf: ‘Never before have I seen so many threats to free speech. It is chilling’
  • Irish theatre since 1950: what we remember – and what we have forgotten

Book Reviews

The Last Leonardo review: Making an argument for value of art
Saltwater review: A coming-of-age novel and a fluid and crisp love note to a mother
Once More We Saw Stars review: painfully intimate truths of grief laid bare
Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists review – powerful but shocking

Stage

Citysong The past is always present: This week’s theatre highlights

Dylan Coburn Gray’s Citysong, and Ann Blake’s Morning After the Life Before

Druid director: ‘New writing doesn’t just appear out of nowhere,’ Garry Hynes says. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
Dancer Colin Dunne and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in Session, with sarod virtuoso Soumik Datta and composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gallen Dublin Dance Festival review: A riot of movement and sound
  • Phoenix: art and politics rise up in ‘dance of resistance’
  • Bartlett Sher: Brexit will hang over the plot of The King and I

Art & Design

Treecurtin by David Crone. Courtesy of the artist Art in Focus: Treecurtin by David Crone

From Troubles Belfast to his back garden, David Crone finds riches in his environment

Alan Butler, Death Valley (2018), Lightfast pigment ink on 100% archival cotton-rag paper cold-mounted onto di-bond. 230 x 125cms (detail) Burrowing into your brain: This week’s visual art highlights
The male gaze filtered through a young woman's eyes
  • IM Pei, architect who designed the Louvre pyramid, dies at 102
  • Exploring the links between Islamic and Celtic art

Unthinkable

Iris Murdoch: ‘It’s been easy to dismiss Murdoch as a philosopher because she was such a brilliant novelist.’ Photograph: Getty Why the world needs Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of ‘unselfing’

Centenary of author’s birth in Dublin is being used as an occasion to reclaim her moral vision

Siri Hustvedt: Philosopher or novelist? Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Can a novel also be a work of philosophy?
Donald Trump, a winner at the ballot box, but ‘the Stoics argued one cannot take pride in one’s life unless it is a virtuous life’. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Why be good when it seems like nasty guys finish first?
  • Do male and female brains differ? A philosophical response
  • Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

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

The ‘back lane of no importance’ in Dublin that excelled in the 1970s

The Times We Lived In: Published Thursday, September 9th, 1971 

Panti Bliss in Thisispopbaby’s Riot globetrotting cabaret show. Photograph: Ian Douglas Rioting in Dublin theatres is nothing new
Siobhán Hegarty: Visitors to Moore Street are getting robbed, they are getting abused. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy ‘Anything is better than what’s here’ - traders react to latest plan for Moore Street
  • The stinking mud heaps that plagued Dublin in the 1870s
  • The second World War ‘Éire’ sign rescued from a Dublin cliffside

Tuarascáil

De réir Roinn na Gaeltachta, táthar ag súil leis go mbainfidh suas le 175 mac léinn leas as an scéim in aghaidh na bliana. Grianghraif: Joe O’Shaughnessy/Irish Times ‘Erasmus na Gaeilge’ fógartha ag Seán Kyne

Cabhróidh ciste nua le 175 mac léann cur fúthu ar feadh trí mhí sa nGaeltacht

Seán Ó Baoill agus Máire Bhreathnach i stiúideo An Focal Scoir. Cad iad na ‘taboos’ seo nach bhfuil daoine ag caint fúthu?
Liam Mac Con Iomaire, comhaistritheoir le Tim Robinson le “Graveyard Clay” agus Alan Titley lena aistrichán féin “Dirty Dust”. Grianghraif: Seán Ó Mainnín Ó d’imigh tú uainn
  • Gach duine le chéile
  • Is deacair sean-nós a bhriseadh

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1 Game of Thrones: endgame. Photographs: HBO The Game of Thrones debate: Is series 8 a ‘perfect orgy of violence’ or ‘a betrayal’?
2 Jeremy Kyle Show was axed on Wednesday. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA Wire More Jeremy Kyle Show guests killed themselves, it emerges
3 Family: Ballymun was chosen ‘because it’s an internationally recognisable landscape’ for a story that could happen in any city Roddy Doyle’s Family stands up as a classic 25 years later
4 John Sheahan: Fiddle player, composer, poet, wood carver and origami enthusiast. John Sheahan: 80 years agrowing
5 The Paw Patrol Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups: Cartoon canines in fascistic mission
6 Sarah McTernan of Ireland looks every inch the contoured pop contender. Photograph: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun Eurovision 2019: Irish singer Sarah McTernan’s performance was self-conscious and soulless
7 Game of Thones: Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in the Battle of the Bastards Game of Thrones is an epic for our times. By Fintan O’Toole
8 Duncan Laurence, representing The Netherlands, wins the 64th Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Michael Campanella/Getty Images ‘Like two Abercrombie models at the Wesley disco’: The best and worst of Eurovision 2019
9 Mount Sackville Secondary School student Lauren Doyle (16), the overall winner of the Irish Young Philosopher Awards, with President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins at UCD’s O’Reilly Hall. Photograph: Conor Healy/Picture It Photography You don’t exist just ‘to be useful’, President tells young philosophers
10 Seizing on every passing factoid: Today FM’s Dermot and Dave. Photograph: Today FM If Today FM was any more lifeless, you’d need to call 999
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Seamus Mallon in 1998, when he was deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
Nothing to sing about?: 10-year-old Mona Abdulmagid (foreground of montage) takes part in the the Ireland Palestine Alliance’s boycott-Eurovision campaign. Last year’s winner was the Israeli singer Netta Barzilai (background) Fintan O’Toole: Everything about Israel is political, even Eurovision
David Puttnam at home in Skibereen, Co Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision David Puttnam: ‘I feel no sense of identity for the country I grew up in’

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The funnyman on immersive one-man show The Encounter and odd Swedish film Border

Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
The Book Club Click to join in the discussion about this month's book, Harvesting by Lisa Harding
 
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
 

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Galleries

Doris Day in costume on the set of Calamity Jane. Photograph: Ed Clark/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Doris Day: A life in pictures
Red electrical tape marks out our playing space on the timber floor. One side of this line denotes the stage; outside of this line is known as the wings. Here, bits of costume and props line up, ready to be brought on stage. Among these props – suitcases, wine bottles, letters – lies a digital camera, very much out of place in this world of 1940s Galway. We’re in the Lab on Foley Street in Dublin. It’s week three of rehearsals for Light a Penny Candle. Maeve Binchy’s heartfelt story, adapted wisely for stage by Shay Linehan, is taking shape. I’ve brought my camera with me this week; I leave it off to the side as we work through the text. Light a Penny Candle: The rehearsal room laid bare
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