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Phoebe Waller-Bridge with the three Emmys she won for her series Fleabag. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Emmys 2019: Night of triumph for Fleabag and Game of Thrones
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • September 23, 2019, 07:01

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy the surprise winner as Game of Thrones picks up most

Bruce Springsteen at 70: 13 surprising facts about ‘The Boss’ Bruce Springsteen at 70: 13 surprising facts about ‘The Boss’
  • Music
  • Niamh Towey
  • September 23, 2019, 09:40

How did he get his nickname? How long did his longest gig last? What was his dad's job?

The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage
  • Stage
  • Derek O'Connor
  • September 23, 2019, 05:00

Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre

Cold Warriors: History has rarely seemed as compelling Cold Warriors: History has rarely seemed as compelling
  • Books
  • Peter Murphy
  • September 23, 2019, 06:00

Duncan White’s exploration of the literary cold-war is an accessible and compulsive read

Peaky Blinders: all too rushed, leaving more questions than answers Peaky Blinders: all too rushed, leaving more questions than answers
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Sarah Hughes
  • September 23, 2019, 06:00

Series five, episode 6 finale recap: There was something refreshing seeing Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby undone

Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance posthumous album announced Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance posthumous album announced
  • Music
  • September 23, 2019, 06:00

New album will feature unheard material and various collaborations with Damien Rice, Beck and Bryce Dessner of the National

Louis Theroux: My guilt about Jimmy Savile Louis Theroux: My guilt about Jimmy Savile
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • September 21, 2019, 06:00

When Theroux met Savile’s once-underage ex, he thought, That’s what happened in the ’60s

Ariana Grande at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know Ariana Grande at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know
  • Music
  • September 20, 2019, 06:00

Going to see Ariana? Here are the timings, the set list and the essential things you need to know

The Irrational Ape: how flawed logic puts the world in danger The Irrational Ape: how flawed logic puts the world in danger
  • Books
  • John Gibbons
  • September 22, 2019, 06:00

Book review: David Robert Grimes presents critical thought as bulwark against fascism and fraud

Nancy Harris: ‘Plays are kind of cool now’ Nancy Harris: ‘Plays are kind of cool now’
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • September 21, 2019, 05:00

With two new plays opening simultaneously in Dublin and London, the playwright lays bare both a family and a political drama, full of art and ambiguity

Latest Film

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Robert Redford and Paul Newman on set. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Getty Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 50 years on, it still works spectacularly well
Oakes Fegley, Sarah Paulson and Luke Wilson in The Goldfinch Sarah Paulson on The Goldfinch: ‘I live in terror Donna Tartt will hate it’
The outer limit: Brad Pitt in Ad Astra Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend
  • Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
  • The movie quiz: Which director failed to get Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar?

Film Reviews

The Farewell

 
Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: Last Blood. Photograph: Lionsgate Rambo: Last Blood

 
Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss and Tiffany Haddish star in The Kitchen The Kitchen

 
Brad Pitt plays a cool-headed, emotionally-stunted astronaut Ad Astra

 

TV & Radio

Emmys 2019: Phoebe Waller-Bridge's comedy series, Fleabag, won 4 awards. Photograph: Nina Prommer/EPA Emmys 2019: Complete list of major winners

Fleabag wins big with four awards, Game of Thrones takes prize for best drama

Phoebe Waller-Bridge with the three Emmys she won for her series Fleabag. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Emmys 2019: Night of triumph for Fleabag and Game of Thrones
The end of days . . . Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in the series five finale of Peaky Blinders. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Peaky Blinders: all too rushed, leaving more questions than answers
  • TV guide: 16 of the best shows to watch this week
  • Marty Whelan talks spaghetti westerns as Lyric FM faces high noon

Latest Music

Bruce Springsteen performs at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, on 21 May 2016. Photograph: EPA Bruce Springsteen at 70: 13 surprising facts about ‘The Boss’

How did he get his nickname? How long did his longest gig last? What was his dad's job?

Leonard Cohen: New album has been arranged by singer’s son Adam. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance posthumous album announced
Sinead O’Connor at the Féile ’19 music festival in Semple Stadium, Thurles. Photograph: Debbie Hickey/Getty Images Féile ’19: Sinéad O’Connor’s voice glimmers like a blade in Semple Stadium
  • Gwilym Simcock: ‘I have always struggled with performance anxiety’
  • Stockton’s Wing celebrate 40 years a-flying: this week’s best traditional gigs

Album Reviews

Liam Gallagher: Why Me Why Not

 
Tove Lo: Sunshine Kitty

 
The Atrix: Dublin 1979-1981

 
Tebi Rex: The Young Will Eat The Old

 
Little Hours: Now the Lights Have Changed

 
Girl Band: The Talkies

 

Latest Books

George O’Brien’s play The First Pegeen runs from September 24th to October 12th at Bewley’s Lunchtime Theatre, Dublin Tramp and changeling: the love story of JM Synge and Molly Allgood

George O’Brien on the love affair of opposites that inspired his first play, The First Pegeen

Rubber Bullet: Peter Kennard’s photomontage from 1974 is a howl of righteous wrath Peter Kennard: Taunting the eye and pricking the conscience
Moya Cannon: Whole vistas open up in a handful of words. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Poetry round-up: Words of wonder for the natural world
  • London Fields by Martin Amis (1989): Dazzling display of lingual charisma
  • Naomi Klein: ‘It was hard to feel like climate change was urgent’

Book Reviews

Cold Warriors: a historical study whose subject matter is as relevant as today’s headlines Cold Warriors: History has rarely seemed as compelling
The Irrational Ape: how flawed logic puts the world in danger
Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling: Our heroine on the cusp of 30
Paris Syndrome: Pushing boundaries to document experience

Stage

Donal McCann: You just need to know that he was here. And he was remarkable The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage

Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre

How to Win Against History, at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, is a celebrated musical about the immensely flamboyant, almost-erased Henry Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey Event of the Week: Dublin Theatre Festival gets its history on
Playwright Nancy Harris: Her new play The Beacon opens at the Gate Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Nancy Harris: ‘Plays are kind of cool now’
  • Things We’ve Always Wanted to Tell You review: Thought-provoking look at the Irish class system
  • We Are Lightning review: Raucous collaboration that celebrates creative spaces

Art & Design

Bauhaus Museum Dessau: the new museum officially opened on September 8th. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA A look inside the new Bauhaus Museum

The opening of the Dessau museum coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the design movement

Cillín, Lacken, Mayo (2019) by Tommy Weir. Image courtesy of the artist Art in Focus: Cillín, Lacken, Mayo by Tommy Weir
Niamh O’Malley, Untitled (barrier), detail. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh. Image courtesy of the artist. An absorption with substance and finish, as antidote to a fast-paced world
  • This week’s best art exhibitions
  • Art in Focus: Makiko Nakamura – Winter Cherry Tree

Unthinkable

In seeking esteem, do we pretend we’re something we’re not in order to get other people to admire us? How can I distinguish between my needs and wants?

Unthinkable: Economist and philosopher Adam Smith encourages us to reflect on ‘how much is enough’

‘Judging that a certain course of action is irrational is always relative to a host of other contextual considerations’ Photograph: iStock Why there will never be a cure for irrationality
Pointing the finger: Shame is necessary, because it enforces essential social morals. But endless shame is emotional cruelty. Photograph: Getty Images When is it okay to shame another person?
  • Why does time fly? Maybe you’re not paying enough attention
  • Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism?

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

John King of Claregalway. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh Pipe smoking dogs, and other memories from past Ballinasloe Horse Fairs

The Times We Lived In: Published October 8th, 1924

‘For a smart, charming young woman like Maeve Brennan, able to waltz her way into the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and the New Yorker, the choice between Ireland and exile cannot have required much agonising.’ Maeve Brennan, a writer who was at home in neither Ireland nor America
The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon was marked this year Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?
  • Rationing in 1940s Ireland: Drapers protest over clothes restrictions
  • Hotelier plans new Iveagh Markets Quarter in Dublin’s Liberties

Tuarascáil

Tá deireadh leis an mbliain peile agus iomána. Grianghraph: Dara Mac Dónaill An tIománaí sa Chlaí

Tá deireadh leis an mbliain peile agus iomána seachas go gcaithfear na comórtais chontae a chur i gcrích agus tosnú ar a bheith réitithe don Nollaig

Eamon de Valera. Grianghraf: Getty Images An t-oideachas ina éigeandáil
Aisteoir de chuid Phléaráca Chonamara i nDún Eochla, Inis Mór, i 1997. Grianghraph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Oidhreacht an Phléaráca
  • Cogadh na Talún
  • In am dul i ngleic leis an ‘lúb ar lár’

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John Le Carré: Born David Cornwell, he published under pseudonym in order to protect his work as an operative for the British security services. Photograph: Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Cold Warriors: History has rarely seemed as compelling
The incorrect targeting of sparrows in 1958 contributed to the deaths of up to 45 million Chinese people in a famine. The Irrational Ape: how flawed logic puts the world in danger
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen: Their third book continues in a Bridget-esque first-person confessional vein. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling: Our heroine on the cusp of 30
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 Reviews, news and interviews from the capital city's biggest and most diverse festival
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Bruce Springsteen performs at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, on 21 May 2016. Photograph: EPA Bruce Springsteen at 70: 13 surprising facts about ‘The Boss’
2 Phoebe Waller-Bridge with the three Emmys she won for her series Fleabag. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Emmys 2019: Night of triumph for Fleabag and Game of Thrones
3 When Louis Met...: Louis Theroux with Jimmy Savile. Photograph: BBC Louis Theroux: My guilt about Jimmy Savile
4 John Le Carré: Born David Cornwell, he published under pseudonym in order to protect his work as an operative for the British security services. Photograph: Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Cold Warriors: History has rarely seemed as compelling
5 Far from an unqualified success, this Irish sex comedy reveals its limited budget in every frame An Irish sex comedy? Thank You Come Again
6 Donal McCann: You just need to know that he was here. And he was remarkable The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage
7 Sweetener: Ariana Grande’s world tour is coming to Dublin’s 3Arena this month. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Ariana Grande at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know
8 The end of days . . . Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in the series five finale of Peaky Blinders. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Peaky Blinders: all too rushed, leaving more questions than answers
9 Emmys 2019: Phoebe Waller-Bridge's comedy series, Fleabag, won 4 awards. Photograph: Nina Prommer/EPA Emmys 2019: Complete list of major winners
10 Canadian author, journalist and social activist Naomi Klein: “We are in this period of this profound social fragmentation and one of the things that this framework gives us is a sense of common purpose.” Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty Naomi Klein: ‘It was hard to feel like climate change was urgent’
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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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Vote 100 Celebrating a century since Irish women won the right to vote
 
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