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Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

From the epic to the intimate, 2019 was a year of outstanding Irish theatre

Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’ Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

Time out after breaking her back led the art-pop band's singer to make a very different album

Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

In 10 years no movie has attracted such a buzz at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes

Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’ Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’
  • Books
  • Catherine Conroy
  • January 25, 2020, 06:00

'This awful grief that I had, it was like a springboard. It gave me this incredibly painful new perspective on what really mattered to me'

Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m a big mama rat that won’t let go’ Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m a big mama rat that won’t let go’
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

A collapsed music label and a four-year wait to release her new album have tested the musician’s mettle

State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction
  • Art & Design
  • Frank McDonald
  • January 25, 2020, 05:00

Ciarán O’Connor urges ‘proper dialogue’ on architecture in Ireland

The Goop Lab: One episode is about the vulva. I’ll probably watch that with my parents The Goop Lab: One episode is about the vulva. I’ll probably watch that with my parents
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • January 24, 2020, 13:12

In Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Netflix series, Goop HQ could be straight out of Black Mirror

Kate O’Brien’s Irish Times columns from 50 years ago are still so relevant Kate O’Brien’s Irish Times columns from 50 years ago are still so relevant
  • Books
  • Kathy Rose O’Brien
  • January 24, 2020, 10:41

How Kathy Rose O’Brien connected with her great-aunt to curate a tribute at MoLI

Taylor Swift reveals struggle with eating disorder Taylor Swift reveals struggle with eating disorder
  • Music
  • January 24, 2020, 15:15

Singer would starve herself if her stomach ‘looked big’ in photos on tour in 2014

Love Island: It’s deranged. What am I actually watching? Love Island: It’s deranged. What am I actually watching?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Rosa Lyster
  • January 24, 2020, 11:10

An impenetrable slice of Britishness has landed in my city – and I’m hooked

Latest Film

Robert Pattinson stars as Ephraim Winslow and Willem Dafoe stars as Thomas Wake in The Lighthouse (2019) Photo: Eric Chakeen/A24 Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
Novel approach: Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton in The Personal History of David Copperfield Six of the best films to see in the cinema this weekend
Olivia De Havilland with Errol Flynn in Santa Fe Trail (1940) The movie quiz: What mighty age is Olivia De Havilland?
  • Terry Jones obituary: Monty Python’s heart and soul who revolutionised British TV comedy
  • Terry Jones was the John Lennon of comedy

Film Reviews

The Grudge: redundant reboot of a remake of Ju-On: The Grudge The Grudge

 
Weathering With You: wacky mythology is offset with gorgeous hyperreal visuals Weathering with You

 
Mackenzie Davis in contemporary horror mode as Kate Mandell in The Turning The Turning

 
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce star The Man who Killed Don Quixote

 

TV & Radio

Ryan Tubridy got more political than he meant to last week. Photograph: RTÉ A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist

Radio review: The presenter reacts sensitively to Úna Keane's tale of a harrowing attack

The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow - official trailer 1:08 The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow - official trailer
The Goop Lab: Gwyneth Paltrow stays at one remove, instead dispatching her minions to do the heavy lifting The Goop Lab: One episode is about the vulva. I’ll probably watch that with my parents
  • Love Island: It’s deranged. What am I actually watching?
  • Avenue 5: Armando Iannucci’s space comedy is terrible

Latest Books

Prospect Cottage built in tarred timber and made famous by Derek Jarman Old favourites: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman

A year of Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s favourite books

Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’
Illustration: Kate Martin New Irish Writing: A Little Cloud by A Joseph Black
  • Local history: Reflections on Derry and Donegal’s turbulent past
  • Auschwitz 75 years on: The Holocaust’s toll for one Dublin family

Latest Music

Anxo Lorenzo, Jim Murray, Dónal O’Connor and Jack Talty The best traditional music gigs to go to this week

Tradfest Temple Bar, Galician gaita piper Anxo Lorenzo

Mabel, daughter of Neneh Cherry, is performing sold out shows in Dublin and Belfast This week’s best rock and pop gigs: From Mabel to Jonas Brothers
Cork trombonist Paul Dunlea tours with his international 4 Corners Project this week, playing at Arthurs, Dublin (Saturday 25), Maggie’s Farm, Co. Down (Monday 27), and Crane Lane, Cork (Tuesday 28).   War of Independence imagined: This week’s jazz highlights
  • Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m a big mama rat that won’t let go’
  • Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’

Album Reviews

Hot damn is it good to have the Pet Shop Boys back Pet Shop Boys: Hotspot

 
An album to admire, rather than enjoy Polica: When We Stay Alive

 
The Lasters are the final family on Earth, which is on the verge of extinction Fred Deakin: Fred Deakin Presents The Lasters

 
A glorious celebration of a heritage Steve Cooney: Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for solo guitar

 
Kiwi Jr.: Football Money

 
Varo: Varo

 

Book Reviews

Orwell: A Man of Our Time – A sloppy, disorganised biography
Consider This: Chuck Palahniuk’s rules from Write Club
Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech – An important book about corporate giants
American Dirt: tight plot about Mexican border and migrants

Stage

Restoration, directed by Darren Thornton with Kate Stanley Brennan and John Cronin. Project Arts Centre, January 28th-February 1st The best play to see in Ireland this week

Shaun Dunne’s new play Restoration examines the tensions embedded in social work

Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?
Halloween parade. Macnas, founded in 1986, pioneered anarchic, visual street performance in Ireland Irish Theatre Awards: Macnas to receive special tribute award
  • Ruth Negga: Playing Hamlet nearly killed me
  • Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence?

Art & Design

Detail: Cybil McCaddy with Daughter Lulu, 2018 by Enda Bowe. C-Type print, 127x101.6cm Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – Cybil McCaddy with Daughter Lulu

Part of photographer’s Clapton Blossoms project it won the Zurich Portrait Prize

Louise Butler, Deception Island, Signal Arts Centre When nature is commodified: this week’s visual arts highlights
Principal architect at the Office of Public Works Ciarán O’Connor in front of the new Garda station on Kevin Street. The €28m building sets a new standard for Garda stations. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction
  • Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic
  • Illuminating perspective on rural life in contemporary Ireland

Unthinkable

Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome. ‘It is reasonable to hope in a particular rational ordering of things,’ says philosopher Patrick Masterson. Photograph: Getty Images/Science Photo Library Is there an answer to ‘the ultimate meaning’ of life?

Unthinkable: Philosopher Patrick Masterson believes there is a ‘rational order’ to the universe whether or not God exists

The aftermath of the drone strike ordered by US president Donald Trump which killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani. Photograph: Iraqi Prime Minister’s Press Office via The New York Times Rise of the killer robots: The future of war
By reading the news ‘we train our brain to skim, to surf, to digest very quickly and not go deep’, says Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli. Journalism has become ‘ridiculous’: The case for turning off the news
  • Why humans can survive without religion but not rituals
  • There’s no meaning of life. Now, happy Christmas!

Heritage

The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick, a jewelled breast star, sold for €32,343 – more than three times its estimated price The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick, a jewelled breast star, sold for €32,343 – more than three times its estimated price Sale of Garech Browne's Luggala contents raises over €500,000 at auction

Sixty lots from home of late Garech Browne under the hammer at Sotheby’s

A mole within Dublin Castle was able to identify all 37 men in a photograph of F Company which reported to the chief of police in Dublin Castle and was involved in intelligence. Photograph: Dara MacDonaill/The Irish Times War of Independence discovery reveals IRA spy network
Hammerson, the UK property group that owns the site stretching from O’Connell Street to Moore Street, said it wanted to lodge a planning application with Dublin City Council this year. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw No date for Moore Street 1916 commemorative centre
  • The long history of linen-making in Ireland
  • Rings bring Claddagh Records story full circle

Michael Viney's Another Life

Dark Hedges of Stranocum, Co Antrim by Michael Viney Storm Brendan rattles the nature-depleted North

A new report shows no let-up in the loss of wildlife in Northern Ireland

Corncrake: important place in literature has romanticised the bird How do we choose which endangered species to save?
The shiny black backs that came curving along the waves behind me were those of bottlenose dolphins, out for their own kind of fun. Picture: Michael Viney On a frosty morning 40 years ago, I saw a group of dolphins playing tag
  • Michael Viney: Climate change an existential threat to civilisation, scientists say
  • Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Tuarascáil

’Ar mhí-ámharaí an tsaoil, bím deimhin ceart i bhfad níos minicí ná mar a bhíonn Paddy Power ag Baile na Lobhar agus na Leabhar.’ Grianghraf: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Fulaingt Fhada

Níl le déanamh ach an cnaipe a bhrú agus tiocfaidh an freagra chugat amach as an meaisín réamhdhéanta.

Tá an t-olltoghchán fógartha agus ní fada anois go mbeidh lá na vótála buailte linn. Grianghraf: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Gealltanais toghchánaíochta agus an mhéar fhada
Fórsaí cúltaca: Póilíní Cúnta i mbun cuardaithe i mBaile Átha Cliath. Grianghraf: Walshe/Getty Images Comóradh conspóideach Chonstáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann
  • Éagóir Dhomhaite
  • Gá le “samhlaíocht agus solúbthacht” chun polasaí nua oideachais a chur i gcrích

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George Orwell mural picture Southwold, Suffolk, England. Photograph: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Orwell: A Man of Our Time – A sloppy, disorganised biography
Chuck Palahniuk, American fiction writer and journalist born in Pasco, Washington and living in Portland, Oregon. Photograph: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Consider This: Chuck Palahniuk’s rules from Write Club
A billboard with an image of Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren in San Francisco. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech – An important book about corporate giants
Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who’s been nominated this year, plus all our other coverage
 
The Revolution Files Highlights from the Military Archives with reports from every county
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?
2 Corey Taylor of Slipknot performs at The 3Arena Dublin on Tuesday. Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns Corey Taylor: After 20 years in Slipknot we are all beat up
3 Ryan Tubridy got more political than he meant to last week. Photograph: RTÉ A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist
4 A mole within Dublin Castle was able to identify all 37 men in a photograph of F Company which reported to the chief of police in Dublin Castle and was involved in intelligence. Photograph: Dara MacDonaill/The Irish Times War of Independence discovery reveals IRA spy network
5 Auschwitz: the infamous German inscription that reads Work Makes Free at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp, in Poland. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Go to Auschwitz, buy a trinket: Howard Jacobson on how we treat the Holocaust
6 Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story’
7 Bernie Crawford New Irish Writing: January 2020’s winning poems
8 Robert Pattinson stars as Ephraim Winslow and Willem Dafoe stars as Thomas Wake in The Lighthouse (2019) Photo: Eric Chakeen/A24 Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
9 Principal architect at the Office of Public Works Ciarán O’Connor in front of the new Garda station on Kevin Street. The €28m building sets a new standard for Garda stations. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw State architect hopes to push Ireland in Dutch direction
10 Dr Margaret O’Neill and Kathy Rose O’Brien at the Kate O’Brien exhibition in MoLI, which closes next week. Photograph: Jason Clarke Kate O’Brien’s Irish Times columns from 50 years ago are still so relevant
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The Cork actor on the influence of Cillian Murphy, the comedy of Theo Von, and Shia LaBeouf’s biopic

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
 
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 

Culture Videos

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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
 

Galleries

DJ Larry Gogan, who's death was announced on Tuesday, January 7th, 2020, in the RTÉ 2FM studio in 2010. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Larry Gogan, 1938-2020: A life in pictures
Marian Finucane in the RTÉ radio studios in January 1980. Photograph: Pat Langan/The Irish Times Marian Finucane 1950 - 2020: A life in pictures
Vote 100 Celebrating a century since Irish women won the right to vote
 
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