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Director Alan Gilsenan and Ailbhe Griffith filming The Meeting She wasn’t what I expected a sexual assault victim to be like
  • Film
  • Alan Gilsenan
  • September 22, 2018, 06:00

In Alan Gilsenan’s film about a real Dublin sex crime, only one person could play the victim

Inside Ryanair: Michael O’Leary’s making of a ‘nicer’ airline Inside Ryanair: Michael O’Leary’s making of a ‘nicer’ airline
  • Books
  • Matt Cooper
  • September 22, 2018, 06:00

Book extract: Matt Cooper chronicles O’Leary’s struggles to reinvent Ryanair, keep pilots at bay, and stay in charge of the airline

Glenn Close: ‘I spent a lot of years not being my full self’ Glenn Close: ‘I spent a lot of years not being my full self’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • September 22, 2018, 06:00

The Fatal Attraction star in changes in Hollywood and how her new film could see her finally bring home an Oscar

My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen: a strangely persuasive read My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen: a strangely persuasive read
  • Books
  • Nicole Flattery
  • September 22, 2018, 06:00

From childhood to pop stardom, this memoir offers a frank look into the drugs, sex and sadness of Allen’s ‘world’

16 of the best new shows to watch on TV this week 16 of the best new shows to watch on TV this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • September 23, 2018, 06:00

The 2008 bailout is dramatised and documented while A Star Is Born is plugged, Fifa celebrates itself and Manson, Hedy Lamarr and Moses are profiled

Strictly Hedonistic – the heyday of Ireland’s clubland Strictly Hedonistic – the heyday of Ireland’s clubland
  • Music
  • Tanya Sweeney
  • September 22, 2018, 06:00

In 1990s and 2000s, Irish club night scene collided with both acid house and Celtic Tiger

The Dude abides: The Big Lebowski 20 years on The Dude abides: The Big Lebowski 20 years on
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • September 22, 2018, 05:00

The Coens’ 1998 comedy works as a caper but repeat viewings unwrap layers of meaning

The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot
  • Stage
  • Donald Clarke
  • September 22, 2018, 05:00

Corn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom large

Nothing should ever get in the way of a good story Nothing should ever get in the way of a good story
  • Books
  • Sheila O'Flanagan
  • September 22, 2018, 05:00

To place literary fiction above popular fiction is doing all readers a disservice

Letters of Note: from bedroom operation to global sensation Letters of Note: from bedroom operation to global sensation
  • Books
  • Seamas O'Reilly
  • September 22, 2018, 06:00

Shaun Usher’s hugely popular blog cataloguing historical letters has grown into a series of books and he's now turning his attention to speeches

Latest Film

Director Alan Gilsenan and Ailbhe Griffith filming The Meeting She wasn’t what I expected a sexual assault victim to be like
Glenn Close: “You start out and it’s just one rejection after another. You have to be really tough. You have to believe.” Photograph: Tony Cenicola/NYT Glenn Close: ‘I spent a lot of years not being my full self’
Is Donny (Steve Buscemi) a figment of Walter’s imagination? That is just, like, your opinion, man The Dude abides: The Big Lebowski 20 years on
  • Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • The movie quiz: God help us with this religious stumper

Film Reviews

Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro and Jack Black in The House With a Clock in Its Walls THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN THE WALLS

 
Throughout, the odd couple banter and gently rib at one another Faces Places

 
John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea For Peace

 
Matangi/Maya/MIA is brilliant, engaging, witty, provocative MATANGI/Maya/M.I.A

 

Latest Music

Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock rose to fame in the English pop-rock duo, known for their rock and cockney style, in the 1970s. Photograph: PA Wire Chas Hodges of Chas & Dave dies aged 74

Singer died in his sleep in the early hours of Saturday morning from organ failure

Strictly Handbag hadn’t been Martin Thomas’s first rodeo – before Strictly Handbag, he had started a club night in Powers Hotel. Strictly Hedonistic – the heyday of Ireland’s clubland
Give Up by The Postal Service This Album Changed My Life: The Postal Service – Give Up (2003)
  • New artist of the week: Just Mustard
  • Suede: ‘Reforming was one of the best things we ever did’

Album Reviews

Suede: The Blue Hour

 
Christine and the Queens: Chris

 
alt-J: REDUXER

 
Prince: Piano & a Microphone 1983

 
Slow Moving Clouds: Starfall

 
Villagers: The Art of Pretending to Swim

 

Latest Books

Shaun Usher: “I became obsessed with the concept of letter-writing and how it was dying out.” Photograph: Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images Letters of Note: from bedroom operation to global sensation

Shaun Usher’s hugely popular blog cataloguing historical letters has grown into a series of books and he's now turning his attention to speeches

Mountain drawing with the signatures of Jon Krakauer and Jimmy Chin. Photograph: Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic In praise of older books: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1997)
Always getting better? Michael O’Leary decided to re-engineer Ryanair by improving its customer service. Illustration: Paul Ryder Inside Ryanair: Michael O’Leary’s making of a ‘nicer’ airline
  • Compulsive and inventive: new poetry from Nick Laird
  • Carrying the song and story of Irish writing all over the world

Book Reviews

States of Passion by Nihad Sirees: a queasy tale of love
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss: the problem with the good old days
The Coddling of the American Mind: ‘trigger warnings’ for a generation

TV & Radio

Lady Gaga, who joins Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, Jodie Whittaker and Rod Stewart on the seapon opener of The Graham Norton Show, arrives for the world premiere of A Star Is Born at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9th. Photograph: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni 16 of the best new shows to watch on TV this week

The 2008 bailout is dramatised and documented while A Star Is Born is plugged, Fifa celebrates itself and Manson, Hedy Lamarr and Moses are profiled

Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. Many in Brazil have no doubt about the threat a Bolsonaro presidency would represent to the country’s democratic institutions. Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images Bolsonaro harnesses disillusion with Brazil’s traditional politics
The soft crunch underfoot of yellow, red and brown leaves that have fallen from deciduous trees is one of the most potent symbols of autumn Seasonal change: making the switch from summer activities to autumnal ones
  • The Model Squad: Portrait of a business built on insecurity
  • Spider-Man is in cahoots with the NYPD, and not everyone’s happy

Stage

Emmet Byrne, Úna Kavanagh, Aoibhínn McGinnity, Patrick Ryan and Aidan Kelly in the Corn Exchange production of ‘The Misfits’ at Smock Alley Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot

Corn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom large

Näher... Closer, Nearer, Sooner: dancers appear out of nowhere, then vanish. Photograph: Luca Truffarelli Näher... Closer, Nearer, Sooner review: A lithe interplay of recollection and retrospection
The Fattest Dancer at St Bernadette’s: Julian La Blanc and his unpredictable sidekicks. Photograph: Ste Murray The Fattest Dancer at St Bernadette’s review: A hilarious stage school send-up
  • Drip Feed review: A giant bender, and many laughs, expose a darker reality
  • The Cat’s Mother review: A dark comedy dressed up in hot pinks

Art & Design

Dark Forest Head (2013) by Emily Young Art in focus: Dark Forest Head (2013) by Emily Young

Young’s carved stone sculptures are meditations on time, nature and humanity

Ursula Burke, Nigeria (detail from Embroidery Frieze – The Politicians) at the RHA Visual art: Embroidered politics and unconventional spaces
Still from My Comfort and Joy, Seamus Harahan and Thomas McCarthy Art in focus: My Comfort and Joy, by Seamus Harahan and Thomas McCarthy
  • Robert Ballagh: ‘Betty was really good at assessing things. I don’t have that any more’
  • First look: Goethe Institut reveals lavish refurb on Merrion Square

Unthinkable

Pilgrims waiting in Phoenix Park, Dublin for the visit of Pope Francis. Photograph: Cyril Byrne A ‘third way’ of looking at religion

Unthinkable: Two dead philosophers could provide the key to a more mature debate on faith

Irish Yong Philosopher Award winner Luke Rickard (16) with President Michael D. Higgins. Photograph: UCD Colleges of Social Sciences and Law Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year
‘There is a paradox in war: Why do individuals sacrifice themselves for their groups?’ Photgraph: Reuters/Joe Raedle Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare
  • Was Ireland’s most prominent philosopher ‘too womanly’?
  • How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?

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

Three old Dublin trams on a site near Sutton railway station in 1955. Photograph: Eddie Kelly The Times We Lived In: Dublin trams that went off the rails

Published: January 14th, 1955. Photograph: Eddie Kelly

Trinity College Dublin librarian and college archivist Helen Shenton with Prof Rachel Moss, head of history of art and architecture at Trinity, with the Book of Durrow. Photograph: Trinity College Dublin Book of Durrow is on its way to the British Library
Peter Branigan in the basement room of 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin, where he was born. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Dublin tenement life: ‘I was born right there in 1939’
  • The Times We Lived In: A Lady Lavery of great note
  • Table formed from Spanish Armada parts up for auction

Treibh

Búda. grianghraf: getty images Cóán, conair, cuireadh agus ciall

Tugann leabhar nua ábhar machnaimh agus athmhachnaimh duit

Bratacha na Spáinne agus na Catalóine. grianghraf: angel garcia/bloomberg Náisiúnachas agus ciníochas
Bratach Aontas na hEorpa Reilig na bpáirtithe
  • Ein Achtungmoment ag foghlaim teanga
  • Sraith nua leabhar scríofa ag Declan Collinge

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These two great US east coast cities are built on history, politics and a terrific tourist experience. We asked two locals to tell us just why a trip there is essential this autumn/winter

Dublin Theatre Festival 2018 Reviews, news and interviews from Ireland’s premier theatre festival
 
Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 Reviews, news and interviews from the capital city's biggest and most diverse festival
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Director Alan Gilsenan and Ailbhe Griffith filming The Meeting She wasn’t what I expected a sexual assault victim to be like
2 Always getting better? Michael O’Leary decided to re-engineer Ryanair by improving its customer service. Illustration: Paul Ryder Inside Ryanair: Michael O’Leary’s making of a ‘nicer’ airline
3 ‘The Importance of Being Aisling’ is the third book in a trilogy. ‘The Importance of Being Aisling’: the model modern Irish woman
4 Is Donny (Steve Buscemi) a figment of Walter’s imagination? That is just, like, your opinion, man The Dude abides: The Big Lebowski 20 years on
5 The Nicky Byrne Show with Jenny Greene depends on a nicely balanced chemistry 2FM: A frenetic world of squawky voices and auto-tuned pop
6 Glenn Close: “You start out and it’s just one rejection after another. You have to be really tough. You have to believe.” Photograph: Tony Cenicola/NYT Glenn Close: ‘I spent a lot of years not being my full self’
7 Strictly Handbag hadn’t been Martin Thomas’s first rodeo – before Strictly Handbag, he had started a club night in Powers Hotel. Strictly Hedonistic – the heyday of Ireland’s clubland
8 Other Voices presenter MayKay and Westport singer-songwriter Maria Kelly in St Michael’s Church in Ballina, Co Mayo. Photograph: Keith Heneghan Other Voices Ballina: Dingle shindig decamps to Mayo
9 Clockwise from top left: Mike McCormack, Sara Baume, Colin Barrett, Paul McVeigh, Lisa McInerney, Conor O’Callaghan, Alan McMonagle, Sally Rooney. Photographs: John Minihan Carrying the song and story of Irish writing all over the world
10 The Nun is trying to be like The Conjuring a falling at the hurdle. Photograph: Warner Bros The Nun: stupid, confusing and scary – but not sexy
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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
Spike Lee at the premiere of his new film ‘BlacKkKlansman’ in California. “I hope that this film can give some little extra push or touch or anything to get people to register to vote.” Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’
The cast during rehearsals of Paul Howard’s ‘Copper Face Jacks’ in the Olympia Treatre, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Copper Face Jacks: The Musical: Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’

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The Tennessee singer on The Good Place, vegan haunts and comedian Cameron Esposito

Paul Lynch: serious fiction is a form of knowledge. The writer seeks to understand the truths that define the human condition. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/ Getty Images
The Book Club Click to join in the discussion about this month's book, Grace
 
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
 

Culture Videos

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Culture Night: from Victorian surgery to artists studios 2:35 Culture Night: from Victorian surgery to artists studios
Examining the Book of Durrow, the Book of Kells' predecessor1:59 Examining the Book of Durrow, the Book of Kells' predecessor
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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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