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The Miami Showband, killed in 1975. From left: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O’Toole, Des Lee Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • March 24, 2019, 06:00

In the absence of transparent answers, intricate theories become very seductive

Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio gold Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio gold
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

Radio Review: After initial gruffness, Duffy grows genuinely concerned for his guest

The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear
  • Art & Design
  • Frank McDonald
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

It’s hard for Brian Hogan to see his Dublin office blocks being razed for redevelopment

TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • March 24, 2019, 06:00

Including Derry Girls, Blue Planet Live, This Time with Alan Partridge, and MasterChef

David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties
  • Books
  • Sean Sheehan
  • March 23, 2019, 06:00

Beatles or Stones, Kray twin or Andy Warhol, you were nobody until Bailey shot you

TOWIE series 24: still flaky after all these years, thank goodness TOWIE series 24: still flaky after all these years, thank goodness
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

Reality TV: The cast are whisked to Thailand, but they’re as inane and immature as ever

Willem Dafoe: A portrait of the artist as a young man Willem Dafoe: A portrait of the artist as a young man
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it

Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?' Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

LGBTQI+ nightlife: Genre-busting, gender-bending gas LGBTQI+ nightlife: Genre-busting, gender-bending gas
  • Stage
  • Stephen Moloney
  • March 23, 2019, 06:00

Dublin’s thriving alternative scene is a key part of working out what Ireland wants to be

Is Tarantino playing cybergames with his new film? Is Tarantino playing cybergames with his new film?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Seamas O'Reilly
  • March 23, 2019, 05:00

The promotion poster is dreadful but it can be hard to know if you’re being had on the internet

Latest Film

Vincent Van Gogh: Willem Dafoe as the painter in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate Willem Dafoe: A portrait of the artist as a young man
Liam Neeson The movie quiz: Which director steered clear of Liam Neeson?
The millions who enjoyed Get Out will expect a debate about socio-political discontents Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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Film Reviews

Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s Oscar-nominated documentary. Photograph courtesy of Sundance Institute Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s Oscar-nominated documentary. Photograph courtesy of Sundance Institute Minding the Gap

 
Sharkwater Extinction: We are killing around 150 million sharks a year Sharkwater Enxtinction

 
Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow The White Crow

 
The millions who enjoyed Get Out will expect a debate about socio-political discontents Us

 

Latest Music

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Actor says Jackson was ‘sweet and childlike’ and his ‘sexual needs were his sexual needs’

New Artist of the Week: Chai
Wendy James on The Velvet Underground and Nico: ‘The band taught me how to write a pop song with as much sneering, insouciant naivety as Lou Reed.’ This Album Changed My Life: The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
  • Picture This to John Grant: This week’s rock and pop gigs
  • The best jazz gigs in Dublin and Galway this week

Album Reviews

Maverick Sabre: When I Wake Up

 
Nilüfer Yanya : Miss Universe

 
Orville Peck: Pony

 
DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy: Tuez-Les Tous

 
Jason Ringenberg: Stand Tall

 
Ye Vagabonds: The Hare's Lament

 

Latest Books

Mike McCormack: It was such a boost to my confidence as a young writer to see my story in print. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell Mike McCormack: It all started in the wild west of Louisburgh

The Solar Bones author and Hennessy Hall of Fame inductee on his life as a writer

Aeham Ahmad broadcast from the streets of Damascus Pianist in the rubble: A Palestinian-Syrian refugee’s journey through music
Philip K Dick won the admiration of writers beyond his genre, including Roberto Bolaño and Martin Amis. Photograph: Philippe Hupp/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Valis (1981) by Philip K Dick
  • Books in brief: From the ‘basket of deplorables’ to a 1950s Irish childhood
  • New crime fiction: Scandi noir and secrets of the Irish super-rich

Book Reviews

Memories of the Future review: a playful memoir of an imagination
A Hidden Landscape Once a Week review: Between the lines of UK rock journalism
The Way We Eat Now: Food has become strange, intense, hysterical
The Ghost Factory review: A first novel that haunts for the wrong reasons

TV & Radio

The Miami Showband, killed in 1975. From left: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O’Toole, Des Lee Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre

In the absence of transparent answers, intricate theories become very seductive

Derry Girls: Ardal O’Hanlon makes a guest appearance TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week
It’s a nice day for a Red Wedding: a scene from the Game of Thrones Tapestry Game of Thrones tapestry to journey ‘home’ to Bayeux
  • Podcast of the week: Heavyweight
  • TOWIE series 24: still flaky after all these years, thank goodness

Stage

underCURRENT: the camp cabaret spans burlesque, dance, drag and live music. Photograph: Eddie Kavanagh LGBTQI+ nightlife: Genre-busting, gender-bending gas

Dublin’s thriving alternative scene is a key part of working out what Ireland wants to be

Beg, steal or borrow? Clare Monnelly in Charlie’s a Clepto Shoplifters of the world unite: Charlie’s a Clepto is this week’s theatre highlight
Actor Owen Roe winner of the Special Tribute Award at the 22nd Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
  • Performance of Abbey show cancelled after technical glitch
  • Sure Look It, Fuck It review: Clare Dunne soars in grungy ode to Dublin and home

Art & Design

The Drenched Forest, 2018 (oil and acrylic on canvas, 120x120cm), Cecilia Danell. Image courtesy the artist. Art in Focus – The Drenched Forest by Cecilia Danell

All is not what it seems in Galway-based Swedish painter’s forested landscapes

Safe for now: Lansdowne House, Brian Hogan’s Ballsbridge office block, is so distinctive it should be a protected structure. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear
Mary Swanzy, ‘Portrait of Gertrude Jekyll’, private collection Mary Swanzy arrives in Cork, and the other best exhibitions this week
  • ‘She’s rebellious’: Irish actor inspires giant #MeToo sculpture
  • Stephen McKenna: a painters’ painter

Unthinkable

A pro-Brexit activist holds a placard outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/ AFP/Getty Images ‘Take back control’: why the Brexit slogan resonates across Europe

Unthinkable: People want ‘sovereignty’ over their lives, says philosopher Michele Nicoletti

Remainers showed ‘a lethal combination of arrogance and naivety’ ahead of the 2016 referendum. Photograph: Reuters/Henry Nicholls Intellectual vices, from Brexit to the Birmingham Six
‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed
  • How to find your inner Zen Buddhist
  • Living in the now: It’s not as simple as you’d think

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

1846: starving peasants clamour at the gates of a workhouse during the Famine. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Famine changed everything – and nothing

A report in The Irish Times in 1860 showed political arguments were back in full swing

Lilian Bland at the controls of the Mayfly. The highs and lows of those early aviation years
The 16th, 17th (St Patrick’s Day) and 18th March: Erskine Nicol’s painting of the Irish celebration that included Sheelah’s Day. Photograph courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland Sheelah take a bow: This Irish icon was far more than just St Patrick’s wife
  • Westmeath was a hotbed of ‘leprechaun’ activity in 1908
  • Fintan O’Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald Trump

Tuarascáil

Bhí eolas maith ag Dermot faoin slua sí ó dhúchas. Scéal ‘Budgie’: Ag amharc siar

Cha raibh Gaeilge ar bith i dteach na scoile an t-am sin agus níl mórán anois ach oiread

D’fhéadfadh scata bríonna a bheith le ‘Broidimeacht’ arb é an ceann is ansa liom ná go bhfuil siad á mbroideadh amach ag eite ghealtach an pháirtí Tóraí, ach gur cosúla gur ‘Bródimeacht’ is mó a thug ar Shasanaigh a nguth a chaitheamh ar son fágála sa chéad áit. Grianghraf: Georgia O’Callaghan/Getty Breatimeacht, Britimeacht, Broimeacht nó Brotimeacht?
An Gréasán: eagras nua tacaíochta tosaithe do mhúinteoirí iar-bhunscoile Gaeilge. An Gréasán: Guth nua do mhúinteoirí iar-bhunscoile Gaeilge
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  • Cad iad na prionsabail a bhaineann le saoránacht a bhaint de dhuine?

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Vote 100 Celebrating a century since Irish women won the right to vote
 

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2 The Miami Showband, killed in 1975. From left: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O’Toole, Des Lee Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband Massacre
3 Derry Girls: Ardal O’Hanlon makes a guest appearance TV guide: 11 of the best shows to watch this week
4 Dancing With The Stars 2019 twirls on to our screens on Sunday, January 6th Dancing with the Stars: Everything you need to know
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6 Come Out Ye Black and Tans: the rabble-rouser was sung by The Wolfe Tones. Photograph: Terry Thorp Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t
7 Last night’s episode of the spoof magazine show featured Steve Coogan playing an Irish farmer named Martin Brennan. Screenshot: BBC Alan Partridge singing Come Out, Ye Black and Tans both awkward and hilarious
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9 Safe for now: Lansdowne House, Brian Hogan’s Ballsbridge office block, is so distinctive it should be a protected structure. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear
10 Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, and John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Photographs © David Bailey David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties
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