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In a four-photo combo, Amy Schumer as seen through FaceTime on May 18, 2020. Because of coronavirus concerns, she expects it will be at least a year before she returns to Comedy Cellar: “You need masks with good acoustics.” (Heather Sten/The New York Times) Amy Schumer’s lockdown: ‘I watched Normal People, a beautiful show. There’s so much sex’
  • Culture
  • Jason Zinoman
  • May 26, 2020, 11:00

‘If 10 is totally fine, I’m a 7. It’s nice to have a baby, because he doesn’t know what’s going on’

Antonia Campbell-Hughes: ‘I like hard graft. That’s what I believe in’ Antonia Campbell-Hughes: ‘I like hard graft. That’s what I believe in’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • May 26, 2020, 05:00

The actor returns to Donegal to get behind the camera for the first but not the last time

Bernadette Kiely evokes an isolation that has become routine Bernadette Kiely evokes an isolation that has become routine
  • Visual Art
  • Aidan Dunne
  • May 26, 2020, 05:00

Kiely charts familiar landscapes transformed by time and chance

André Leon Talley: How Anna Wintour threw her right-hand man ‘under the bus’ André Leon Talley: How Anna Wintour threw her right-hand man ‘under the bus’
  • Books
  • Hadley Freeman
  • May 25, 2020, 12:20

‘My story is a fairy tale,’ says the Vogue writer, ‘and in every fairy tale there is darkness’

Normal People: Paul Mescal donates chain to Pieta as RTÉ streams pass 2.5m Normal People: Paul Mescal donates chain to Pieta as RTÉ streams pass 2.5m
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • May 25, 2020, 17:47

Coronavirus forced suicide prevention charity to postpone Darkness into Light fundraiser

I came from India to Sligo, thrilled to be reciting Yeats along Lough Gill I came from India to Sligo, thrilled to be reciting Yeats along Lough Gill
  • Books
  • Cauvery Madhavan
  • May 25, 2020, 06:00

Cauvery Madhavan’s life in literature was inspired by her father’s passion for learning

To work on TV, Normal People had to differ from the book To work on TV, Normal People had to differ from the book
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Hugh Linehan
  • May 24, 2020, 11:28

Inevitably and rightly, the TV series is softer in tone than Sally Rooney’s novel

Dublin could be heaven: Frank McDonald reimagines the capital Dublin could be heaven: Frank McDonald reimagines the capital
  • Art & Design
  • Frank McDonald
  • May 23, 2020, 05:00

The pandemic could allow us to create a better city for everyone to live and work in

Dara McAnulty: ‘I want to campaign for wonder, for the love of the natural world’ Dara McAnulty: ‘I want to campaign for wonder, for the love of the natural world’
  • Books
  • Freya McClements
  • May 23, 2020, 06:00

In Diary of a Young Naturalist the teenager tells of his struggles and devotion to nature

Nadine Shah: ‘As a woman you get referred to as a ticking time bomb’ Nadine Shah: ‘As a woman you get referred to as a ticking time bomb’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • May 23, 2020, 05:00

The indie pop powerhouse on double standards, Brexit racism and Keir Starmer

Latest Film

Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Antonia Campbell-Hughes: ‘I like hard graft. That’s what I believe in’
Kelvin Harrison Jr at Hotel Le Germain in Toronto, Canada. File photograph: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for AT&T ‘After Waves I needed to get therapy and I needed to do a rom-com’
Photograph: Dave Meehan The movie quiz: What was Pacino and De Niro’s first scene together?
  • Four new films to stream this weekend
  • Oscars 2021 ‘likely to be postponed’ after film-industry shutdown

Film Reviews

Sara Luna Zoric and Lazar Dragojevic in Take Me Somewhere Nice Take Me Somewhere Nice

 
In True Fiction, horror writer Caleb Conrad (Jason Cassini) wants librarian Avery Malone (Sara Garcia) to be the guinea pig in his investigations into terror. True Fiction

 
Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir The County

 
Isabelle Huppert in Mia Hansen-Løve’s 2016 film Things to Come. Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Part 1

 

TV & Radio

Normal People: Paul Mescal’s chains have their own Instagram fan page Normal People: Paul Mescal donates chain to Pieta as RTÉ streams pass 2.5m

Coronavirus forced suicide prevention charity to postpone Darkness into Light fundraiser

Out of the ordinary: Daisy Edgar Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell in Normal People. Photograph: Enda Bowe To work on TV, Normal People had to differ from the book
Steve Carell in Space Force, streaming from Friday on Netflix TV Guide: 26 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Normal People producers order Pornhub to remove pirated sex scenes
  • Sarah McInerney is forensic, relentless and fierce in Seán O’Rourke’s old slot

Latest Books

A writer and editor at WriteNow Liverpool in 2018. ‘WriteNow changed my life. All it takes is 1,000 words and the nerve’

If you are an Irish writer and feel your voice is under-represented, you need to know this

Sinéad Burke puts it beautifully in her message, “I’m so honoured to be speaking to you. Because who knows who’s watching? Maybe it’s the next President of Ireland. Maybe it’s the first female taoiseach.” #Messagesfor6thClass: Irish writers help pupils mark end of an era in lockdown
André Leon Talley, in his boyhood hometown of Durham, North Carolina. Photograph: Jeremy M Lange/NYT André Leon Talley: How Anna Wintour threw her right-hand man ‘under the bus’
  • I came from India to Sligo, thrilled to be reciting Yeats along Lough Gill
  • This crisis offers a chance to know ourselves better

Latest Music

Brian May performing with Queen in Belfast in 2011. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images Brian May recovers after suffering heart attack

Queen guitarist (72) says he was very near death before getting stents put in

Nadine Shah: ‘You go down to Sunderland, there was an awful lot of that racism, that rhetoric, present’ Nadine Shah: ‘As a woman you get referred to as a ticking time bomb’
Socially distanced concert: Travis McCready at TempleLive in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty These concerts went ahead this week, one in the US, one in Europe. Good or bad idea?
  • ‘I went into shock’: Justin Bieber speaks with Irish fan on live Instagram stream
  • The 1975’s Matt Healy: ‘Seamus Heaney has always been a massive influence’

Album Reviews

Josh Okeefe: Bloomin'

 
Sir Bobby Jukebox: Friendship Gift

 
Sleaford Mods: All That Glue

 
Bleeding Heart Pigeons: Stir

 
Tim Burgess: I Love the New Sky

 
Perfume Genius: Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

 

Book Reviews

Resistance: Tori Amos memoir looks at politics, violence and lyrics
The King of Warsaw: A cinematic and thoughtful thriller
Dying for an iPhone: Inside the factories that produce Apple’s bestselling product
Latitudes of Longing: history, culture and the importance of connectedness

Stage

Dear Ireland: Patrick O’Kane, Nicola Coughlan, Timmy Creed, Gina Moxley, Brendan Gleeson, Denise Gough, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Leah Minto and Lucianne McEvoy Dear Ireland: The Abbey’s rapid response to a crisis that’s torn us apart

The theatre brought 100 writers and actors together online to make sense of the pandemic

Elizabeth Moynihan, left, and Laoisa Sexton, writer and star of An Unmade Bed Remaking theatre behind closed doors
James Corden presented an isolated edition of his Late Late Show, with musical guests. File photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for TBS Shutdown show-stoppers: Broadway and West End stars sing in these six home videos
  • Deirdre O’Kane’s Isolation Diary: ‘My son was expelled from home school today’
  • Edna O’Brien and Brendan Gleeson sign up for Abbey’s Dear Ireland project

Art & Design

Bernadette Kiely, Flooded Quay – Carrick Bernadette Kiely evokes an isolation that has become routine

Kiely charts familiar landscapes transformed by time and chance

Artist impression of the planned new shopping, entertainment and residential zone called the Northern Quarter. File photograph: Q4PR/PA Wire Dublin could be heaven: Frank McDonald reimagines the capital
Raffle organisers Peri Cochin (L) and Arabenne Reille put the painting Nature Morte by Picasso in its frame at Christie’s auction house, in Paris, France. Photograph: AP Photo/Francois Mori Woman wins Picasso painting worth €1m in charity raffle
  • Astrid Kirchherr obituary: Stylish outsider who saw beauty in the Beatles
  • Kerry photographer’s work is quiet and hard to read yet persuasive and memorable

Unthinkable

Existentialist philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre enjoy the freedom of the beach in Rio in 1960. Photograph: STF/AFP/Getty Ten philosophers to help us through the coronavirus crisis

Unthinkable: Sartre and Schopenhauer make the list but Peig Sayers deserves inclusion too

‘The wonder even of small, local and daily life – a blackbird’s song, a friend’s greeting, a hot meal – these things can be an antidote to despair,’ says environmentalist and author Patrick Curry. Photograph: Getty Images Is Covid-19 lockdown our chance to regain a sense of wonder?
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and party TD David Cullinane. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Is ‘Up the Ra’ a man thing?
  • Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
  • Are we all Kantians now? The Covid-19 effect on moral philosophy

Heritage

Blood on the bog: A brother and sister hanged for an Offaly murder

150 years ago, Patrick Dunne’s ‘dying declaration’ helped convict his neighbours of his murder

Murphys’ lore: the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland will tell Róisín, Eddie and Cillian Murphy (shown in Peaky Blinders) about their surname. Photographs: Burak Cingi/Redferns/Getty, Daniel Dorsa/NYT, BBC Where’s your family name from? Dictionary goes free for lockdown bonding
Graffiti art by Maser featuring the slogan ‘Maser loves you’ in 2008. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill When Maser wrote his graffiti love letter to everybody
  • Self Aid: When Irish rockers banded together against unemployment
  • Fears for fate of The O’Rahilly house at Dublin's Herbert Park

Michael Viney's Another Life

The large and admirable Lumbricus terrestris earthworm, key architect of the structure and fertility of soil. The foreign invaders decimating North’s worm population

Antipodean flatworms pose risk to indigenous variety which could have severe knock-on effects

Cuckoo at other bird’s nest: Most cuckoos of both sexes resemble some sort of hawk. Illustration: Michael Viney Lonely lapwings and the secret world of non-breeders
Swinging back the polytunnel door, I wish its leafy occupants a cheery good morning and ask them how they’re doing. Illustration: Michael Viney Does it matter whether my plants listen to Mozart or Bach?
  • David Attenborough gives humankind one last chance
  • Have Howth’s red squirrels succumbed to invasive greys?

Tuarascáil

’Ceann de na héilimh is mó eile a bhí againn san fheachtas #Gaelvóta ná go mbeidh Aire Sinsearach ann don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht.’ ‘Is gá dúinn dul i bhfeidhm anois’

Agus cláir chuimsitheacha rialtais dhá phlé faoi láthair tá seans anois ann éilimh #Gaelvóta a bhaint amach

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Tori Amos: devoted fans will relish the book’s release. Photograph: Scott Dudelson/Getty Resistance: Tori Amos memoir looks at politics, violence and lyrics
The Jewish area of Warsaw In August 1938. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty The King of Warsaw: A cinematic and thoughtful thriller
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Fighting Words 2020 Roddy Doyle introduces head-turning young Irish writing
 
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’s won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

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1 André Leon Talley, in his boyhood hometown of Durham, North Carolina. Photograph: Jeremy M Lange/NYT André Leon Talley: How Anna Wintour threw her right-hand man ‘under the bus’
2 Normal People: Paul Mescal’s chains have their own Instagram fan page Normal People: Paul Mescal donates chain to Pieta as RTÉ streams pass 2.5m
3 Artist impression of the planned new shopping, entertainment and residential zone called the Northern Quarter. File photograph: Q4PR/PA Wire Dublin could be heaven: Frank McDonald reimagines the capital
4 Tori Amos: devoted fans will relish the book’s release. Photograph: Scott Dudelson/Getty Resistance: Tori Amos memoir looks at politics, violence and lyrics
5 In a four-photo combo, Amy Schumer as seen through FaceTime on May 18, 2020. Because of coronavirus concerns, she expects it will be at least a year before she returns to Comedy Cellar: “You need masks with good acoustics.” (Heather Sten/The New York Times) Amy Schumer’s lockdown: ‘I watched Normal People, a beautiful show. There’s so much sex’
6 A writer and editor at WriteNow Liverpool in 2018. ‘WriteNow changed my life. All it takes is 1,000 words and the nerve’
7 Bernadette Kiely, Flooded Quay – Carrick Bernadette Kiely evokes an isolation that has become routine
8 Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Antonia Campbell-Hughes: ‘I like hard graft. That’s what I believe in’
9 Cauvery Madhavan I came from India to Sligo, thrilled to be reciting Yeats along Lough Gill
10 Louise Nealon: winner of the 2017 Séan Ó Faoláin Competition You've read Cat Person, now read this Irish bad-sex short story
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