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  Scene from Rialto: Colm (Tom Vaughn-Lawlor) with 19-year-old rent boy (Tom Glynn-Carney) Mark O’Halloran: 'I think I’ve gone as dark as I’m going to go’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • September 29, 2020, 05:30

The writer has adapted his own Irish Times Theatre Award-winning play for the screen, and it wasn’t easy

Fleet Foxes: ‘I’m trying to find silver linings in this madness, a healing space in music’ Fleet Foxes: ‘I’m trying to find silver linings in this madness, a healing space in music’
  • Music
  • Laura Barton
  • September 29, 2020, 06:00

Robin Pecknold on how the pandemic cured his anxiety and the band’s new, fourth album

The Shipman Files: ‘You mean Dr Death, dear’ The Shipman Files: ‘You mean Dr Death, dear’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • September 29, 2020, 10:41

Three-part documentary concentrates on the lives of Harold Shipman’s victims

H is for hero: the origin story of Jack Reacher, a billion-dollar brand H is for hero: the origin story of Jack Reacher, a billion-dollar brand
  • Books
  • Heather Martin
  • September 29, 2020, 06:10

Heather Martin, official biographer of Lee Child, reveals Reacher was almost a one-hit wonder

Graham Norton: ‘I wanted out, out, out of Ireland’ Graham Norton: ‘I wanted out, out, out of Ireland’
  • Books
  • Alex Clark
  • September 28, 2020, 09:24

The TV presenter on his third novel, life in west Cork and his pandemic talk show

Óró…: This immersive production is a feast for the senses Óró…: This immersive production is a feast for the senses
  • Stage
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • September 29, 2020, 11:00

Galway 2020 production defies categories, incorporating music, dance and theatre

Pan Pan Theatre captures echo of Beckett’s poetry Pan Pan Theatre captures echo of Beckett’s poetry
  • Stage
  • Amy O'Connor
  • September 29, 2020, 12:04

‘Beckett is quite a good voice, I would imagine, in terms of the tone of pandemic’

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River
  • Film
  • September 28, 2020, 14:31

River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix’s brother, died aged 23 of a drug overdose in 1993

Ana Kriégel murder trial remembered on World News Day 2020 Ana Kriégel murder trial remembered on World News Day 2020
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Conor Goodman
  • September 28, 2020, 05:00

The Irish Times shares key pieces of reporting and comment to mark campaign

Argentinian politician quits after kissing partner’s breasts in YouTube legislative session Argentinian politician quits after kissing partner’s breasts in YouTube legislative session
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Uki Goñi
  • September 28, 2020, 10:55

Juan Emilio Ameri says he thought he was offline, but seemed aware of web camera

Latest Film

  Scene from Rialto: Colm (Tom Vaughn-Lawlor) with 19-year-old rent boy (Tom Glynn-Carney) Mark O’Halloran: 'I think I’ve gone as dark as I’m going to go’
Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix have reportedly welcomed a baby boy named River, named after Phoenix’s late older brother, actor River Phoenix. This is the first child for the couple. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Photograph: Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’
  • The Movie Quiz: What is the last line in Chinatown?
  • Four new films to see this weekend

TV & Radio

Dr Harold Shipman was convicted for the murder of 15 of his patients - and suspected in the deaths of more than 200 others. Photograph: PA The Shipman Files: ‘You mean Dr Death, dear’

Three-part documentary concentrates on the lives of Harold Shipman’s victims

Juan Emilio Ameri resigned on Thursday after he was called to order by the president of the lower house, Sergio Massa. Photograph: Eltrece Argentinian politician quits after kissing partner’s breasts in YouTube legislative session
The initiative includes the sharing of impactful pieces of journalism from around the world on worldnewsday.org. Photograph: Getty Ana Kriégel murder trial remembered on World News Day 2020
  • TV guide: 23 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Brendan Gleeson stars as Donald Trump in The Comey Rule

Latest Books

Ellen Burstyn restrains Linda Blair in a still from the film The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin. Photograph: Warner Bros/Getty Images ‘Horror fiction tells you one immutable truth. You’re doomed’

Death is real and terrifying but facing it head on is hard. Horror fiction gave me a way in

Conor O Clery and his wife Zhanna at their home in the Dublin Mountains. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Conor O’Clery wins Michel Déon Prize for The Shoemaker and his Daughter
Lee Child: “There’s only one person in the world that Reacher is afraid of and that’s me.” Photograph: Brian Aris H is for hero: the origin story of Jack Reacher, a billion-dollar brand
  • Summer on the Wild Mad Frantic Way
  • Graham Norton: ‘I wanted out, out, out of Ireland’

Film Reviews

Jim Parsons, Robin de Jesús, Michael Benjamin Washington and Andrew Rannells in The Boys in the Band. Photograph: Scott Everett White/Netflix The Boys in the Band

 
Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes Enola Holmes

 
Ethan Hawke in Tesla Tesla

 
Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze in Miss Juneteenth Miss Juneteenth

 

Latest Music

Robin Pecknold: ‘There’s a healing space in music.’ Photograph: Kyle Johnson/The New York Times Fleet Foxes: ‘I’m trying to find silver linings in this madness, a healing space in music’

Robin Pecknold on how the pandemic cured his anxiety and the band’s new, fourth album

Prince performing at Malahide Castle, Co Dublin, in 2011. He originally wanted Sign O’ The Times to be a triple album. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/WireImage for NPG Records Prince: Sign O’ The Times reissue reveals a brilliant trove of unheard songs
Pillow Queens: 'An antidote to people who are up their own holes' Pillow Queens: ‘We’re better on a big stage because we already think we’re famous’
  • Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’
  • Sufjan Stevens: ‘We didn’t just wake up with a celebrity president. It was cultivated’

Book Reviews

Time of the Magicians: Masterclass on four giants of Germanic thought
Pizza Girl: A sharp shock of a novel
Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words
Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story

Stage

Óró:‘Periodically performers turn on taps; the sound of the water behind the music is enveloping, and the pools that build up evoke flooding and climate crisis’ Óró…: This immersive production is a feast for the senses

Galway 2020 production defies categories, incorporating music, dance and theatre

Pan Pan's production of WHAT IS THE WORD is due to screen in Belfast and Paris in the coming weeks. Photograph: Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty of Pan Pan's Embers by Samuel Beckett Pan Pan Theatre captures echo of Beckett’s poetry
Matthew Malone in Fishamble’s Embargo, part of the Dublin Theatre Festival ‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’
  • A Thousand Ways – A Phone Call review: An experience for two strangers
  • Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change

Art & Design

Over the course of his 30-year career, Rankin has captured icons of the era. Rankin: U2’s second-favourite photographer on his brushes with fame

‘Bono is a gorgeous man, both physically and in personality,’ says the celebrity portraitist

One of Jeanette Lowe’s pictures exploring Dublin inner-city street scenes. Photograph: Jeanette Lowe Berlin exhibition offers a global audience a window into modern Irish life
hillen2showcase Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
  • ‘Even in a pre-Covid world, Mirror Pavilion would have been spectacular’
  • Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home

Unthinkable

Anti-racism campaigners taking part in a rally last year outside Google headquarters on Barrow Street in Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times Cancel culture: can you defend people who say unpopular things?

Unthinkable: Rival political philosophers can bring perspective to our current debates

Illustrations from The Philosopher Queens: Diotima, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Warnock and Anita L Allen. Images: Emmy Smith/The Philosopher Queens The forgotten women in philosophy: time to set the record straight
Members of the Khomani San community strike traditional poses in the Southern Kalahari desert in South Africa. Non-western societies put greater emphasis on familial relationships and inherited social roles rather than personal achievement. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Are you Weird? Answer this question to find out
  • How do you stop male entitlement?
  • What are words worth: do poets and philosophers speak the same language?

Heritage

Dr Siobhán Doyle, TU Dublin lecturer and GAA Museum tour guide, at the launch of the GAA Museum’s Bloody Sunday centenary events series. Photograph: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile The GAA must ensure Bloody Sunday is remembered appropriately

The association’s commemorative plans could transform our understanding of the 1920 event

The Book of Kells and its display case in the newly-refurbished treasury in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin. Photograph Nick Bradshaw New Book of Kells set-up allows display of some pages for first time in decades
Proinsias Ó Rathaille, grandson of The O’Rahilly, outside the vandalised house of The O’Rahilly on Herbert Park, Ballsbridge. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill O’Rahilly house demolition supported by council
  • What did the early Irish sound like? Researchers hope to find out
  • Forgotten slavery in Australia: The South Sea Islanders

Michael Viney's Another Life

Gannet with fish: Anyone who has watched the birds plunging vertically from the sky to seize mackerel deep beneath the surface must marvel at their anatomy. Illustration: Michael Viney Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbers

Michael Viney: Irish numbers have more than doubled since the counts of Operation Seafarer in 1970

Fox with prey: The urban adult is “thin and exhausted” from finding and ferrying food to its cubs. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: The fox as he dwells among us
Choughs. Illustration: Michael Viney The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
  • Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows
  • Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffin

Tuarascáil

Ceannaire Fhianna Fáil, Micheál Martin, ag caint ag comóradh Wolfe Tone i Reilg Bhaile Uí Bhuadáin anuraidh. Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Crotal Folamh

Ní drochsmaoineamh é do pháirtí polaitiúil seasamh ar son rud éigin.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (clé) ag seoladh ócáid ‘Cruinnithe stocaireachta ar Zoom le Teachtaí Dála agus Séanadóirí eagraithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge’ an tseachtain seo caite. Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ‘Tá mé den tuairim gur féidir linn obair mhaith a dhéanamh’
Slán leis an mBunscoil curtha i gcló ag Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta agus Clódóirí CL Aos óg na Gaeltachta: éist lena nglór!
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Cover design for Einbahnstraße (One-Way Street) by Walter Benjamin, 1928. Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Time of the Magicians: Masterclass on four giants of Germanic thought
Jean Kyoung Frazier is a stylish writer who wears her skills lightly Pizza Girl: A sharp shock of a novel
Suppose a Sentence author Brian Dillon. Each chapter begins with a single sentence Dillon was drawn to and copied down, in notebooks over the years and now offers up to us, with his singular, remarkable exploration of it. Suppose a Sentence: A timely reminder of the beauty and importance of words

Most Read in Culture

1 Lee Child: “There’s only one person in the world that Reacher is afraid of and that’s me.” Photograph: Brian Aris H is for hero: the origin story of Jack Reacher, a billion-dollar brand
2 Graham Norton: ’I found a tribe that I can be part of in England’ Graham Norton: ‘I wanted out, out, out of Ireland’
3 Adele Astaire Meghan Markle’s flight is nothing new: it’s history repeating itself
4 Socrates found that his philosophical way of life ‘gave him courage’, says Prof Paul O’Grady. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us in this time of crisis?
5 Dr Harold Shipman was convicted for the murder of 15 of his patients - and suspected in the deaths of more than 200 others. Photograph: PA The Shipman Files: ‘You mean Dr Death, dear’
6   Scene from Rialto: Colm (Tom Vaughn-Lawlor) with 19-year-old rent boy (Tom Glynn-Carney) Mark O’Halloran: 'I think I’ve gone as dark as I’m going to go’
7 Michael Harding lives on the border between Co Roscommon and Co Leitrim, having bought the land 25 years ago. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’
8 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
9 Jean Kyoung Frazier is a stylish writer who wears her skills lightly Pizza Girl: A sharp shock of a novel
10 US army soldiers from the 10th Mountain and the 101st Airborne units disembark from a Chinook helicopter March 11th, 2002 as they return to Bagram airbase from the fighting in eastern Afghanistan. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images ‘The Art of War’: As relevant now as when it was written
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The Music Quiz: What song did the BBC say was 'too depressing' to play? The Music Quiz: What song did the BBC say was 'too depressing' to play?

Plus: Who sang ‘you in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty’

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 won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
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Olivia de Havilland in 1938. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Olivia de Havilland 1916-2020: A life in pictures
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