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Emma Stone in ‘The Favourite’ Oscars 2019: 10 nominations for Irish production ‘The Favourite’
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 22, 2019, 14:17

Academy Awards: Dubliner Robbie Ryan has been nominated for best cinematography

Oscar nominations announced: As it happened Oscar nominations announced: As it happened
  • Film
  • January 22, 2019, 10:10

Irish eyes focus on The Favourite, starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz

President pays tribute to poet Padraic Fiacc, who has died aged 94 President pays tribute to poet Padraic Fiacc, who has died aged 94
  • Books
  • January 22, 2019, 15:06

Gerald Dawe salutes a gifted but troubled Troubles poet

Drake announces three dates at Dublin’s 3Arena Drake announces three dates at Dublin’s 3Arena
  • Music
  • January 22, 2019, 11:41

The ‘Assassination Vacation Tour’ will kick off in March

Boyzone at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know Boyzone at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know
  • Music
  • Louise Bruton
  • January 22, 2019, 16:00

What time does it start, what songs will they play, will there be tears...

Marc Rebillet: ‘The content can be vulgar... it’s not for everyone’ Marc Rebillet: ‘The content can be vulgar... it’s not for everyone’
  • Stage
  • Seamas O'Reilly
  • January 22, 2019, 06:00

Musical comedy improviser on becoming a globe-spanning favourite in a few months.

US rapper Azealia Banks calls Irish women ‘ugly’ after Aer Lingus flight incident US rapper Azealia Banks calls Irish women ‘ugly’ after Aer Lingus flight incident
  • Music
  • Aoife Moriarty
  • January 21, 2019, 20:14

An emotional Banks said she was treated like a ‘wild animal’ and banned by airline

Memories of Irish Birdsong Memories of Irish Birdsong
  • Books
  • Liam Heneghan
  • January 22, 2019, 10:46

A flash fiction by the author of ‘Beasts at Bedtime’

Chance and the space between things Chance and the space between things
  • Art & Design
  • Aidan Dunne
  • January 22, 2019, 05:00

Light, mist and wonder from Leah Beggs and a group of four artists explore creativity through chance in Some Concrete Possibilites

Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • January 21, 2019, 10:11

Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed

Latest Film

The Favourite: Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, starring Olivia Colman, is the most nominated Irish production in Oscar history Ten things to note about those Oscar nominations
Emma Stone in ‘The Favourite’ Oscars 2019: 10 nominations for Irish production ‘The Favourite’
Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP Oscar nominations 2019: the complete list of nominees
  • Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today
  • M Night Shyamalan: The unbreakable spirit of ‘the twist guy’

Film Reviews

Samuel L Jackson, James McAvoy and Bruce Willis in ‘Glass’ Glass

 
Chanté Adams and Kelvin Harrison jnr Monsters and Men

 
Timothée Chalamet as Nicholas in Beautiful Boy Beautiful Boy

 
Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened

 

Latest Music

Boyzone at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know

What time does it start, what songs will they play, will there be tears...

Drake’s fifth studio album ’Scorpion’ made history by racking up over a billion streams in its first week. Photograph: Prince Williams/Wireimage/Getty Drake announces three dates at Dublin’s 3Arena
The complaint about Brown was filed with police in the 17th arrondissement of northwest Paris. Photograph: Danny Moloshok/Reuters Singer Chris Brown in custody in Paris over rape allegation
  • US rapper Azealia Banks calls Irish women ‘ugly’ after Aer Lingus flight incident
  • Tradfest: Unique trio of Ailbhe Reddy, Sive and Loah light up the night

Album Reviews

Rosie Carney: Bare

 
Bouts: Flow

 
Various Artists: All the Young Droogs

 
Death Cab for Cutie: Thank You for Today

 
Subjective: Act 1: Music for Inanimate Objects

 
Steve Gunn: The Unseen in Between

 

Latest Books

Padraic Fiacc, centre, at the launch of a new selection of his poems in the Linenhall Library, Belfast with, from left, artist and publisher Michael McKernon; John Gray, chief librarian, Linenhall Library; and poets Brendan Hamill; and Gerald Dawe President pays tribute to poet Padraic Fiacc, who has died aged 94

Gerald Dawe salutes a gifted but troubled Troubles poet

Catherine Dunne: “It means a great deal to me at this point in my career. The award for literature is a very special kind of peer recognition.” Photograph: Noel Hillis Catherine Dunne to receive Irish PEN Award for Contribution to Irish Literature 2018
The chaffinch: had trouble later with the auld drugs, and got very stout. Died way too young. Memories of Irish Birdsong
  • Move over, Don Draper. How Shaw used ads as recruiting posters in disguise
  • Old favourites: Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)

Book Reviews

Katalin Street review: Magda Szabó’s piercing exploration of the effects of severe trauma
The Sopranos Sessions review: how David Chase changed TV forever
Turbulence by David Szalay review: Minor work from a major talent
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma review: Dive right in

TV & Radio

Graham Linehan: ‘I’m not transphobic’ Graham Linehan: Trans activists ‘don’t realise the damage’ they do

Petition calls on RTÉ to drop the writer from ‘Prime Time’ report on transgender issues

Official Trailer: The Clinton Affair 0:53 Official Trailer: The Clinton Affair
An official photo shows President Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky at the White House on November 17th, 1995 Monica Lewinsky: ‘I was on the precipice of the rabbit hole’
  • Showdowns and shocks: what we want from the Game of Thrones finale
  • 'I had a ball': Eilish O’Carroll voted off RTÉ's Dancing With The Stars

Stage

Marc Rebillet: “The entire show is improvised front-to-back, 100 per cent made up.” Marc Rebillet: ‘The content can be vulgar... it’s not for everyone’

Musical comedy improviser on becoming a globe-spanning favourite in a few months.

Tonight with Donny Stixx: Rex Ryan in Philip Ridley’s play The Ridleys review: a double bill of urban horror stories
Il Bravo: nominated for best opera and best costumes. Photograph: Clive Barda/ArenaPal The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
  • Abbey leads the field in Irish Times Irish Theatre Award nominations
  • Gary Barlow: ‘It’s different now. You don’t get people outside your house’

Art & Design

Detail from Leah Beggs, Should Have Gone With You, at the Solomon Gallery Chance and the space between things

Light, mist and wonder from Leah Beggs and a group of four artists explore creativity through chance in Some Concrete Possibilites

Portrait of Miss Muriel Swanzy, 1907. Private Collection, courtesy Mary Swanzy Estate Mary Swanzy: From strait-laced girl to first Irish cubist
The Venetian by Sven Sandberg, at Berlin Opticians Gallery The five best art exhibitions to visit in Dublin this weekend
  • Art in Focus: Brian Eno – 77 Million Paintings
  • Banksy artwork painted on side of garage sold for six-figure sum

Unthinkable

‘Sometimes we make better choices by taking the long view, and seeing all parts of time as equally real.’ Photograph: Reuters/Brian Snyder Living in the now: It’s not as simple as you’d think

Science suggests the present has ‘no particular significance’ above the past or the future?

“Being able to identify yourself as part of nature without being laughed at... [is] a huge shift.” Photograph: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert In despair over climate change? Try ‘active hope’
Even when relaxing, people feel an urge to read something ‘improving’ or useful. Photograph: Noel Hendrickson/Thinkstock/Getty Are humans losing the ability to be idle?
  • Is religion better than atheism as a coping mechanism?
  • What can the West learn from the rest?

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

The Irish Times gave its views on the meeting of the first Dáil in 1919 in a January 23rd editorial Cloud-Cuckoo Land: How ‘The Irish Times’ viewed the meeting of the first Dáil in 1919

‘Irish Times’ believed opinion beginning to rally to forces of order, sanity, and the law

Sinn Féin leaders at the first Dáil Éireann in 1919. Photograph: Hulton Archive Commemorating our journey to nationhood will not be easy
Engraving. The Versailles Conference in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, June 28th, 1919. President Clemenceau opens the session. Private Collection. (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/UIG via Getty Images) From Great War to a more intimate one
  • Honouring RIC dead a commemorative step too far
  • Wilson was urged to support presence of Irish voice at Paris Peace Conference

Treibh

Na teachtaí a bhí i láthair i dTeach an Ardmhéara ar an 21ú Eanáir sa bhliain 1919. Grianghraf: Hulton Archive ‘Cothromaíocht’ ina phríomh dhúshlán ag an Dáil

Labhair Tuarascáil leis an Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail ar ócáid chomórtha 100 bliain na chéad Dála

Ag casadh ar ais arís
Ceolfhoireann Náisiúnta Óige na hÉireann ag seinnt sa Cheoláras Náisiúnta. Tá sé fós i gceist go dtógfar an t-ionad nua eolaíochta ar thailte an Cheolárais. Griangraif: Mark Stedman Áis eolaíochta náisiúnta?
  • Níl mo ghnúis ar Facebook ná ar Straoisleabhar
  • Tuartha na bliana

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

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1 Graham Linehan: ‘I’m not transphobic’ Graham Linehan: Trans activists ‘don’t realise the damage’ they do
2 Emma Stone in ‘The Favourite’ Oscars 2019: 10 nominations for Irish production ‘The Favourite’
3 Azealia Banks: left Aer Lingus flight bound for Dublin. Photographs: Instagram US rapper Azealia Banks calls Irish women ‘ugly’ after Aer Lingus flight incident
4 When it was over and the dead and wounded lay in pools of blood, moaning on the ground, Dyer forbade his soldiers to give any aid to the injured The Amritsar massacre: a cold, callous display of colonial evil
5 Drake’s fifth studio album ’Scorpion’ made history by racking up over a billion streams in its first week. Photograph: Prince Williams/Wireimage/Getty Drake announces three dates at Dublin’s 3Arena
6 Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall in The Journey The Journey review: ludicrous retelling of McGuinness and Paisley paths to peace
7 Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP Oscar nominations 2019: the complete list of nominees
8 Members of the Auxillary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary. This force was first conceived in 1919 as a cadre of British officers supporting the RIC against the IRA Honouring RIC dead a commemorative step too far
9 Padraic Fiacc, centre, at the launch of a new selection of his poems in the Linenhall Library, Belfast with, from left, artist and publisher Michael McKernon; John Gray, chief librarian, Linenhall Library; and poets Brendan Hamill; and Gerald Dawe President pays tribute to poet Padraic Fiacc, who has died aged 94
10 Catherine Dunne: “It means a great deal to me at this point in my career. The award for literature is a very special kind of peer recognition.” Photograph: Noel Hillis Catherine Dunne to receive Irish PEN Award for Contribution to Irish Literature 2018
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The comedian on his appreciation for Nicolas Cage and Ireland’s ‘calmness’

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
 
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
 

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Bono and Adam Clayton on stage... Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times In pictures: U2 at 3Arena, Dublin
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