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Anna Burns holds her book ‘Milkman’ during a photocall at the Royal Festival Hall in London for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • October 16, 2018, 22:30

‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach

Blue Peter: Celebrating 60 years of making good little Britons Blue Peter: Celebrating 60 years of making good little Britons
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 17, 2018, 18:28

Review: The 60th anniversary programme shows it’s still based Best-of-British principles

Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Things are changing, and we owe that to Trump’ Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Things are changing, and we owe that to Trump’
  • Books
  • Catherine Conroy
  • October 17, 2018, 06:00

The author on the world’s dire state, the rise of women and why millennials are right

Lady Gaga: ‘After I was assaulted when I was 19 I changed forever’ Lady Gaga: ‘After I was assaulted when I was 19 I changed forever’
  • Film
  • October 17, 2018, 11:17

‘Star Is Born’ actor speaks out about sexual attack and mental health at Elle awards

‘I ain’t dead, bitches!’: Roseanne exits ‘The Conners’, and she’s not happy ‘I ain’t dead, bitches!’: Roseanne exits ‘The Conners’, and she’s not happy
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • October 17, 2018, 10:34

Roseanne Barr slates ABC’s decision on how to write her out of her ‘happy family show’

Yes, Piers Morgan, James Bond would totally wear a baby sling Yes, Piers Morgan, James Bond would totally wear a baby sling
  • Film
  • Stuart Heritage
  • October 17, 2018, 09:17

The TV contrarian is at it again, tweeting about Daniel Craig’s ‘emasculating’ papoose

The classical music sandwich: delicious, nutritious and necessary The classical music sandwich: delicious, nutritious and necessary
  • Music
  • Michael Dungan
  • October 17, 2018, 05:00

Classical Music: Concerts that intersperse classics with new pieces can be revelatory

Man Booker prize 2018: ‘Milkman’ by Anna Burns is top seller on shortlist Man Booker prize 2018: ‘Milkman’ by Anna Burns is top seller on shortlist
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • October 16, 2018, 05:45

Richard Powers is favourite to win elite prize tonight but Belfast’s Anna Burns is top seller

You really have to see Trump’s bizarre new painting You really have to see Trump’s bizarre new painting
  • Visual Art
  • Hannah Jane Parkinson
  • October 16, 2018, 09:25

White House artwork depicts US president drinking with Republican predecessors

Presidential debate: Michael D and Sean Gallagher weren't there. Claire Byrne was barely there Presidential debate: Michael D and Sean Gallagher weren't there. Claire Byrne was barely there
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 16, 2018, 13:44

Arguably the most enthusiastic contributor to ‘Claire Byrne Live’ is cut off by an ad break

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Daniel Craig: James Bond would find a papoose handy in one of his tight spots Yes, Piers Morgan, James Bond would totally wear a baby sling
An detail from the original 1932 lithographic film poster designed by Karoly Grosz, for the movie ‘The Mummy’ The Mummy: Story of the world’s most expensive movie poster
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Film Reviews

Nicolas Cage: his final scene will leave you reeling Mandy

 
Ági Szirtes and Dóra Sztarenki in 1945 1945

 
Channing Tatum voices Migo, the star character in Smallfoot Smallfoot

 
Dakota Johnson in Bad Times at the El Royale. Photograph: Kimberley French Bad Times at the El Royale

 

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Jazz bassist and composer, Ronan Guilfoyle ‘I remember Gay Byrne one night referring to me simply as ‘bass’ ’

Jazz composer Ronan Guilfoyle reflects on his father, his influences and session work

Michael Bublé: “My whole being’s changed. My perception of life.” Photograph: Scott Halleran/Getty Images Michael Bublé ‘to retire’ from music after son’s battle with cancer
Peter Broderick: will release a new EP, Two Balloons, on November 9th This Album Changed My Life: Arthur Russell – World of Echo (1986)
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Album Reviews

John Grant: Love Is Magic

 
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St Vincent: MassEducation

 
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Latest Books

Maurice Devitt, Susan Lindsay and Louis Mulcahy Doire Press poets on tour: A Crack in Everything

Maurice Devitt, Susan Lindsay and Louis Mulcahy to visit libraries across the country

Barbara Kingsolver: “I had been thinking for several years: this looks like the end of the world as we know it.” Photograph: David Wood Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Things are changing, and we owe that to Trump’
Helen Cullen with her writing mentor Michele Roberts, Booker-shortlisted author of Daughters of the House Workshopping The Lost Letters of William Woolf
  • Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner
  • Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’

Book Reviews

The Long Take by Robin Robertson: A bloody and brutal verse novel
Things That Make the Heart Beat Faster by João Morais: A bit of a muddle
Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus: Hopeless men and broken spirits
Bridge of Clay review: Slow-paced novel is both masterful and tedious

TV & Radio

In the 1980s, Peter Duncan, Janet Ellis and Simon Groom presented Blue Peter. Image: BBC Blue Peter: Celebrating 60 years of making good little Britons

Review: The 60th anniversary programme shows it’s still based Best-of-British principles

Unhappy: Roseanne Barr has been killed off in the first episode of The Conners. Photograph: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty ‘I ain’t dead, bitches!’: Roseanne exits ‘The Conners’, and she’s not happy
Peter Casey; Liadh Ní Riada; Joan Freeman and Gavin Duffy. Photograph: Julien Behal Presidential debate: Michael D and Sean Gallagher weren't there. Claire Byrne was barely there
  • 19 of the best new shows to watch on TV this week
  • Late Late Show London special: A glorified town-hall shindig

Stage

My Name Is Language review: A nicely shameless exercise in name-dropping

Dublin Theatre Festival: Strangers spill personal anecdotes in Nicoline van Harskamp’s essayistic performance piece

St Nicholas: Brendan Coyle in Conor McPherson’s play. Photograph: Helen Maybanks St Nicholas review: What does a theatre critic know anyway?
Rathmines Road: Janet Moran, Charlie Bonner, Karen Ardiff, Enda Oates and Rebecca Root in Deirdre Kinahan’s play. Photograph: Patrick Redmond Rathmines Road review: A compassionate imagining of one woman’s private torment
  • Home Theatre (Ireland) review: An innovation with life-changing potential
  • The End of Eddy review: A staggering novel brought affectingly to the stage

Art & Design

White House portrait: Andy Thomas’s painting of Donald Trump and former Republican presidents. Photograph: Andy Thomas You really have to see Trump’s bizarre new painting

White House artwork depicts US president drinking with Republican predecessors

Jacqueline Stanley’s “Boland’s Mill, Dublin” (2000s) Jacqueline Stanley: Attuned to the rhythms of the land
Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘Doubting and questioning are not counterproductive but really positive.’ Photograph: Alex Welsh/New York Times Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘When I see borders, they trigger me’
  • Art in Focus: Whitethorn Turning by Nick Miller
  • Open House Dublin 2018: Everything you need to know

Unthinkable

Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?

Unthinkable: An ‘arms race’ of critique is hindering social progress, argues sociologist Tom Boland

America’s failure to repent the use of the atomic bomb contributed to “the ending of the western Christian civilisation”, says Desmond Fennell. Photograph: US Defense Department/Reuters What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
Pilgrims waiting in Phoenix Park, Dublin for the visit of Pope Francis. Photograph: Cyril Byrne A ‘third way’ of looking at religion
  • Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year
  • Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare

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

Chester Beatty Library: Simurgh rescues Zal in an ink-and-gold illustration from the Iranian epic The Book of Kings. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The women keeping Chester Beatty’s bequest to Ireland

It’s 50 years since the philanthropist’s extraordinary donation. Now his library is showcasing its treasures

Erica Calder with her sons Cian (4) and Tom (13 months) with their new computer at home in Ballinteer, Dublin in 2002. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times The Times We Lived In: The excitement of a new PC in 2002
Conradh na Gaeilge wants appointment of a senior minister with responsibility for Irish and the Gaeltacht. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Budget ‘fails’ Gaeltacht communities – Conradh na Gaeilge
  • The torpedoes and the ‘Leinster’: Ireland’s worst maritime disaster
  • The Times We Lived In: The importance of a pen

Treibh

An chulaith chéanna. grianghraf: getty images/istock Na cultacha gorma

Cad chuige a gcaitheann ár gcuid polaiteoirí cultachta den dath céanna?

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Galleries

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, his mother, Wendy O'Connor and sister Kim Cobain pictured this morning with Kurt's Dodge Dart car at the Newbridge Museum of Style Icons where the Cobain family opened an exhibition 'Growing Up Kurt Cobain'. The exhibition runs until 30th September 2018. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Gallery: Kurt Cobain exhibition in Newbridge
HETTY LAWLOR: Overall winner, Young Mayo artist Hetty Lawlor - a 17-year old student from Kilmeena, near Westport and a pupil at the local Sacred Heart School - with her picture entitled 'Grainne', winner of the 64th Texaco Children's Art competition held at the RHA Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Texaco Children's Art Competition
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