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Aisling Byrne, domestic abuse survivor, features in Tabú, Ag Teacht Slán: ““Even with the safety order in place, what she calls the psychological torture continued. “I would wake up and he’d be standing over me.” Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • November 17, 2018, 06:00

‘He was telling me not to see my friends . . . I thought that was love’

Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames
  • Heritage
  • Manchán Magan
  • November 17, 2018, 06:00

We can reclaim Ballypitmave, and thousands of other names, or let them fossilise

From first principals to second fiddles: life in an Irish orchestra From first principals to second fiddles: life in an Irish orchestra
  • Music
  • Patrick Freyne
  • November 17, 2018, 05:00

Playing in the RTÉCO is no easy task, not least as rumours swirl about its future

Becoming by Michelle Obama review: a highflying outsider’s view Becoming by Michelle Obama review: a highflying outsider’s view
  • Books
  • Stephen Phillips
  • November 17, 2018, 12:09

A priceless glimpse of the young Barack and a first lady’s life, told in often arresting prose

Gavin Bryars: ‘I haven’t reached 100 yet, so I’m still relatively young’ Gavin Bryars: ‘I haven’t reached 100 yet, so I’m still relatively young’
  • Music
  • Eamon Sweeney
  • November 17, 2018, 05:00

The 75-year-old English composer reflects on a life in music and his deep appreciation of Irish culture

Patrick Freyne: Thank you, Stan Lee, for making superheroes just like us Patrick Freyne: Thank you, Stan Lee, for making superheroes just like us
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • November 17, 2018, 05:00

The man behind Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, the Incredible Hulk and the Uncanny X-Men made it okay to express your feelings while wearing spandex and fighting evil lizards

Lasting impression: Matching Renoir’s films with his father’s masterpieces Lasting impression: Matching Renoir’s films with his father’s masterpieces
  • Visual Art
  • Lara Marlowe
  • November 17, 2018, 05:00

Freudians would have a field day with Jean’s allusions to Pierre-Auguste’s paintings

Colm Toibin on the mothers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin on the mothers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
  • Books
  • Colm Toibin
  • November 17, 2018, 06:00

While the fathers left behind letters or diaries, the women in their lives often became the elusive, mysterious ones

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  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Seamas O'Reilly
  • November 17, 2018, 05:00

The memeing of life: One of the silliest ideas ever committed to film is going to be big

Latest Film

“Obviously on set you can’t have real arrows flying around.” Above, Taron Egerton with Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood Taron Egerton: ‘You have to bet on yourself in this game’
‘Something in The Princess Bride affects people,” said Goldman William Goldman, screenwriter who insisted ‘Nobody knows anything’ dies at 87
What a way to make a livin’: Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in 9 to 5 (1980) Six of the best films to see this weekend
  • The movie quiz: Who has not directed Meryl Streep to an Oscar?
  • Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’

Film Reviews

Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, and Olivia Ancona in Suspiria (2018) Suspiria

 
Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda in the 1980 film 9 to 5. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 9 to 5

 
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 
Steven Gerrard: a man out of step with the mercenary, opportunistic world of contemporary football? Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Make Us Dream

 

Latest Music

Florence drama and three nights of Interpol intrigue

The best gigs this week

Marc Rebillet: not for everyone New artist of the week: Marc Rebillet
Matthew Crossan, flanked by his Touts bandmates: “Exile and The Stones in general have taught me more than I could put into words.” This Album Changed My Life: The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. (1972)
  • Gavin Bryars: ‘I haven’t reached 100 yet, so I’m still relatively young’
  • Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homeless

Album Reviews

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: Merrie Land

 
Mumford & Sons: Delta

 
Gerry O'Connor: Last Night's Joy

 
Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever

 
Ryley Walker: The Lillywhite Sessions

 
Imagine Dragons: Origins

 

Latest Books

Gitta Sereny looked Stangl in the eye. And in doing so she challenges us to look at ourselves. In praise of older books: Into that Darkness by Gitta Sereny (1974)

Week 46: Julie Parsons on her favourite books

Niamh Donnelly at Annaghmakerrig: “I couldn’t write. I had been nominated as the next generation of Irish literature and I barely had the courage to lift a pen.” ‘I spent my time at a desk, writing. Or not writing’
An image of Matthew Sweeney. Photograph: Bloodaxe Matthew Sweeney’s final works show the power of suggestion
  • Malala Yousafzai’s father, Ziauddun: ‘Let all girls fly’
  • Colm Toibin on the mothers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Book Reviews

A Radical History of the World review: Seeking a steampunk revolution
If Cats Disappeared From the World review: Japanese magic tale
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley: The new ‘Stoner’?
Northern Heist review: stylish and insightful fictionalisation of a robbery

TV & Radio

Aisling Byrne, domestic abuse survivor, features in Tabú, Ag Teacht Slán: ““Even with the safety order in place, what she calls the psychological torture continued. “I would wake up and he’d be standing over me.” Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’

‘He was telling me not to see my friends . . . I thought that was love’

Joe Duffy talks to Bernie McNally, who was injured in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of 1974, about her criticisms of a new Junior Certificate history textbook which fails to mention the atrocity, which left 34 people dead Joe Duffy and Myles Dungan make hidden history a thing of the past
Limetown is breathtaking Podcast of the week: Limetown Series 2
  • Netflix’s new reality TV series ‘Westside’ looks like an Instagram fantasy
  • Detective Pikachu looks like a smash – solve that mystery

Stage

Gig of the Week: The Great Gatsby is one marvellous party

The Gate becomes Gatsby Mansion again in this fluid F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation

Lauren Coe as Emma in Landmark Productions and the Everyman world premiere production of Asking for It by Louise O Neill. Photograph: Hugh O Conor This week’s theatre highlights
The School Days of Thaddeus K: the name of Blue Raincoat’s protagonist recalls the Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, whose seminal 1975 work The Dead Class made school a living hell The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time
  • Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
  • The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city

Art & Design

Bell X1 leave the stage in Dublin. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ruth Medjber: ‘I don’t need a therapist, because I have a camera’

The Irish photographer on capturing some of the world’s best bands

Father and son: part of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting The Swing, and on the set of the Jean Renoir film A Day in the Country. Original photographs courtesy Musée d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou Lasting impression: Matching Renoir’s films with his father’s masterpieces
On of the phpotographs that for part of My Magnetic North, by Gary Coyle Art in Focus: My Magnetic North, Gary Coyle
  • Rolling Stones spent ‘ages’ admiring National Gallery’s Caravaggio, says President
  • Twilight zones: finding a way home through the half-light

Unthinkable

Muslim praying in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Islam has ‘given rise to remarkably free societies as well as depressingly intolerant ones’. Photograph: AP/Muhammed Muheisen What can the West learn from the rest?

Unthinkable: Borrowing foreign ideas can expand our thinking, says Julian Baggini

‘My position is to recommend that people consider parenting a child with Down syndrome, if given the opportunity’. Photograph: iStock Is economics corrupting our idea of human worth?
Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?
  • What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
  • A ‘third way’ of looking at religion

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

Poulnabrone dolmen in Co Clare. Photograph: iStock Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames

We can reclaim Ballypitmave, and thousands of other names, or let them fossilise

Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
The restaurant at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Dermot Barry When Dublin Airport got a space-age restaurant
  • Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'
  • Armistice Day: The forgotten Sligo men who never came home from the war

Treibh

Luí na gréine. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Beo idir tonnta dorcha an Gheimhridh

Díth solais, údar ón Afraic agus seolta leabhar

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Seó mór na Gaeltachta, Aisling?, ar camchuairt
Niall Ferguson – staraí Ar bhuille na haon uaire déag
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1 Aisling Byrne, domestic abuse survivor, features in Tabú, Ag Teacht Slán: ““Even with the safety order in place, what she calls the psychological torture continued. “I would wake up and he’d be standing over me.” Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’
2 Poulnabrone dolmen in Co Clare. Photograph: iStock Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames
3 Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
4 James Joyce with his parents in 1888. Photograph: Marka/UIG via Getty Images Colm Toibin on the mothers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
5 The National Concert Orchestra at rehearsal in the National Concert Hall. Photograph Nick Bradshaw From first principals to second fiddles: life in an Irish orchestra
6 Four men in a boat: Danny Sheehy, Brendan Begley, Glen Hansard and Liam Holden. “Danny told me, ‘If you can play a gig for three hours then you can row for six’” Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’
7 Detail of an Irish Times women writers poster: Surely it has long been time for “the idea of a culture that has not yet come to be in merchandise” to appear prominently. There are more than enough women writers, and they will sell, too The History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature: telling a bigger, truer story
8 Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, and Olivia Ancona in Suspiria (2018) Suspiria: The dullest coven on the face of the Earth
9 Homeward Bound: Bono recorded his contribution to the single before going on stage for the third of U2’s four homecoming gigs last week. Photograph: Simone Joyner/Getty Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homeless
10 Michelle Obama speaks at the Waterfront in Belfast in 2013. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Becoming by Michelle Obama review: a highflying outsider’s view
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Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
(Original Caption) 'Germany: World War I Armistice: Officers celebrate at captured German canteen.' In reality, the industrial nature of the slaughter destroyed all the notions of individual heroism and chivalry. Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought
Leo Varadkar is hoisted on shoulders after being elected as leader of Fine Gael at the Mansion House, Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times ‘Leo Varadkar: A Very Modern Taoiseach’ is shallow, flimsy and exaggerated

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