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Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 20, 2019, 05:00

Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer

John Connolly: The Charlie Parker saga reaches a culmination John Connolly: The Charlie Parker saga reaches a culmination
  • Books
  • Declan Hughes
  • April 20, 2019, 06:00

But, two decades after Every Dead Thing, A Book of Bones is not the end of story

How one Luke Kelly statue for Dublin city became two How one Luke Kelly statue for Dublin city became two
  • Visual Art
  • Gemma Tipton
  • April 20, 2019, 09:45

The story of ‘two Lukes’ being unveiled on the same day in the capital is the subject of a new documentary

JJ Lee’s ‘total history’ of modern Ireland: Still required reading 30 years on JJ Lee’s ‘total history’ of modern Ireland: Still required reading 30 years on
  • Books
  • Diarmaid Ferriter
  • April 20, 2019, 05:00

Historian’s classic account lacerated the country’s mediocrity and begrudgery

Casual Choir: ‘This is for everybody . . . it’s not about being perfect’ Casual Choir: ‘This is for everybody . . . it’s not about being perfect’
  • Music
  • Amy O'Connor
  • April 20, 2019, 05:00

Roisin Savage has created a musical setting where participants can just have fun

Pop, politics and the past: From Three Day Week to Taylor Swift Pop, politics and the past: From Three Day Week to Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Mick Heaney
  • April 20, 2019, 05:00

A new compilation is a compelling journey through musical moments of 1970s Britain

Desert island risks: Robinson Crusoe at 300 Desert island risks: Robinson Crusoe at 300
  • Books
  • Brian Maye
  • April 20, 2019, 06:00

Daniel Defoe’s 300-year-old novel has enjoyed an immense literary legacy

Lyra McKee: Lost Girl of the Troubles Lyra McKee: Lost Girl of the Troubles
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • April 19, 2019, 14:32

She made her name as a journalist covering the Troubles’ legacy and was set to win fame as an author

Avengers: Endgame – How Disney and Marvel conquered the world Avengers: Endgame – How Disney and Marvel conquered the world
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 19, 2019, 12:15

Avengers: Endgame set to become the fifth Marvel film in top 10 grossing of all time

The Cranberries: In the End review – Dolores O’Riordan’s remarkable swansong The Cranberries: In the End review – Dolores O’Riordan’s remarkable swansong
  • Music
  • Eamon Sweeney
  • April 19, 2019, 06:00

The Cranberries final album is an unexpected late career high for the band

Latest Film

Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
The Avengers in action Avengers: Endgame – How Disney and Marvel conquered the world
New this week: Elena Sofia Ricci as Veronica Lario in Loro, on limited release Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
  • Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
  • The movie quiz: Name the last Dirty Harry film?

Film Reviews

Toni Servillo as Silvio Berlusconi in Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, Loro. Photograph: Gianni Fiorito Loro

 
Judi Dench tries her absolute best in ‘Red Joan’ Red Joan

 
Dragged across Concrete: Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson Dragged Across Concrete

 
Greta: Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert Greta

 

Latest Music

Roisin Savage (front right) leads a gathering of the Casual Choir in Harold’s Cross. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Casual Choir: ‘This is for everybody . . . it’s not about being perfect’

Roisin Savage has created a musical setting where participants can just have fun

The Dublin band The Blades, fronted by Paul Cleary, onstage in 1985. Photograph: Terry Thorp Pop, politics and the past: From Three Day Week to Taylor Swift
Henge: ‘A band of beings from the far corners of the galaxy, converging in Manchester, Planet Earth, to bring a kind of music new to your world!’ Joe Jackson, Loyle Carner, Haley Heynderickx: The best rock and pop gigs this week
  • A Bowie collaborator and a musical picnic: The best jazz gigs this week
  • Mick Hanly and Dónal Lunny and a concertina convention: The best trad gigs this week

Album Reviews

In the End is a smart and stylish farewell for The Cranberries The Cranberries: In the End

 
Flook: Ancora

 
Loyle Carner: Not Waving, but Drowning

 
Lizzo: Cuz I Love You

 
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Mettavolution

 
Glen Hansard: This Wild Willing

 

Latest Books

The title page of the first edition of Robinson Crusoe. Photograph: Ullstein Bild via Getty Desert island risks: Robinson Crusoe at 300

Daniel Defoe’s 300-year-old novel has enjoyed an immense literary legacy

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (1848-1907), French novelist who published his works as JK (Joris-Karl) Huysmans, circa 1893. Artist: Eugene Pirou/The Print Collector/Getty Images À rebours (Against Nature) by JK Huysmans, translated by Robert Baldick (1884)
Anti-Treaty prisoners sake hands with the Free State jailers From the Rising to the Civil War: the local history books capturing the era’s unheard stories
  • John Connolly: The Charlie Parker saga reaches a culmination
  • Crime fiction round-up: Another irresistible Maeve Kerrigan book from Jane Casey

Book Reviews

So Much Longing in So Little Space review: Knausgaard’s Munch analysis is like a secular Bible
Just One More Question: Stories from a Life in Neurology review
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read review: It made me angry
The Scar: An intimate insider account of recovery from mental illness

TV & Radio

Vera Klute and her Luke Kelly sculpture on Two Lukes. Photograph: Gregory Dunn TV guide: 18 of the best shows to watch this week

Statuesque Luke Kelly, a long day in Lough Derg, the Camino by sea, the return of Super Garden, and Mark Kermode on the heyday of disaster movies

Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave kept his silence when he was interviewed by Philip Boucher-Hayes on Tuesday’s edition of Drivetime. Photograph: Dave Meehan Silent treatment as Paddy Cosgrave taxes the patience of Philip Boucher-Hayes
Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway in The Hustle Weekend TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch
  • Chimerica: Picture-perfect gripping drama of fake news
  • Beyoncé’s Homecoming: Surprise live album drops with Netflix film

Stage

Ulster American: An escalating farce. Filthy minds: The best theatre shows this week

Dublin plays host to Ulster American in the Abbey and Spotless in Smock Alley

A play so dependent on dramatic cliche will be a great success. Photograph: Caleb Purcell Light A Penny Candle review: Binchy deserves better, but it will be a success
That they meet is a matter of convenience, but the two women will soon have something unsettling in common Spotless review: characters in suburban thriller are defined by what divides them
  • In Our Veins review: Story of good people in hard situation is pleasantly sentimental
  • Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlights

Art & Design

President Michael D Higgins and his wife, Sabina, with Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring and artist Vera Klute, having unveiled the Luke Kelly statue in Dublin 1, on January 30th, 2019. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill How one Luke Kelly statue for Dublin city became two

The story of ‘two Lukes’ being unveiled on the same day in the capital is the subject of a new documentary

Art in Focus: Andrew Kearney – Mechanism
David Fox, The container, oil on canvas, Olivier Cornet Gallery David Fox and Pete Smyth: The best art shows to see the week
  • Copenhagen by bike: forget the Little Mermaid and feast on the urban architecture
  • Artist Pauline Bewick presented with award at Áras an Uachtaráin

Unthinkable

‘There is something new in our day – the way we can express invented identities without the requirement to stand by them.’ Photograph: Photothek/Getty Images Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?

Social media ‘invites us to be so many people at once’, says UCC academic Fiachra Long

‘The approach to knowledge in art and science is different but complementary.’ File image: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images Rethinking stereotypes about science and the arts
‘Nearly all of us have some desire to do what’s right but a lot of the time our desire doesn’t really translate into motivation.’ Photograph: Getty images Is morality just a matter of following your deepest desires?
  • ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe
  • Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six

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 headline on the report by Alison O’Connor about an earthquake in Clonmany, Co Donegal, in 1994. Why does Donegal get a disproportionate number of Irish earthquakes?

From the archives: Leannan fault line travels down through Lough Foyle and Donegal Bay

Good lore: girls believed that hair cut on Good Friday would grow thicker and longer. Photograph: Cultura/Getty 10 Good Friday traditions you’ve never heard of
Lynn Scarff, director, National Museum of Ireland: ‘Ultimately the people own this national collection and should be able to pop by and check it out.’ Photograph: Julien Behal Photography What’s the National Museum of Ireland collecting? Repeal posters, bees and a wedding dress
  • Substandard housing in Ireland is no new thing
  • India’s Amritsar massacre bore the ‘made in Ireland’ mark

Tuarascáil

Ceann Fine Náisiún na Móhácach, Joseph Tokwiro Norton. Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Tús caoithiúil le chaidreamh nua le Náisiún na Móhácach

Súil ag Ceann Fine Náisiún na Móhácach go gcuirfidh an scéim nua le stór eolais a mhuintire

Grianghraf: iStockphoto ‘Ní raibh ann ach mioncheannairc ar deireadh’
Diarmuid De Faoite ‘Coimhlint ceol na scéalaíochta’
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1 Journalist and author Lyra McKee. Photograph: Jess Lowe / AFP /Getty Images Lyra McKee: Lost Girl of the Troubles
2 Classic horror: the 10 most terrifying short stories ever written
3 Christ Pantocrator (Christ in Glory) depicted in this 10th-century Byzantine enamel plaque in the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain. Photograph: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images What did Jesus really look like, as a Jew in 1st-century Judaea?
4 Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave kept his silence when he was interviewed by Philip Boucher-Hayes on Tuesday’s edition of Drivetime. Photograph: Dave Meehan Silent treatment as Paddy Cosgrave taxes the patience of Philip Boucher-Hayes
5 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
6 Author Niall Tubridy. Just One More Question: Stories from a Life in Neurology review
7 Éamon de Valera in 1948: JJ Lee’s analysis of the political state-builders, including William T Cosgrave, de Valera and Seán Lemass, was multilayered and nuanced. Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty JJ Lee’s ‘total history’ of modern Ireland: Still required reading 30 years on
8 A Fortunate Man, 2018’s sumptuous three-hour film adaptation by the Oscar-winning director Bille August Lucky Per: Denmark’s Nobel-winning version of the Great Scandinavian Novel
9 Run Gendry run: do not ever challenge this man to a race, unless you are a raven or a dragon Game of Thrones: How long did it take Gendry, a raven and a dragon to travel Westeros?
10 Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
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Actor on the many faces of Cate Blanchett, Cork artist Sarah Walker, and why Line of Duty is compelling viewing

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

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
Owen Roe addresses the audience upon accepting his Special Tribute Award at the The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards at the National Concert Hall. Photograph: Aidan Crawley The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
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