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hillen2showcase Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
  • Visual Art
  • Donald Clarke
  • September 19, 2020, 05:00

The artist on cameras, John Hinde postcards and Newry during the Troubles

Róisín Murphy: If I want to be famous I can just go to a gay club Róisín Murphy: If I want to be famous I can just go to a gay club
  • Music
  • Lauren Murphy
  • September 19, 2020, 05:00

The accidental pop star on lockdown, her aesthetic and ‘horrific’ modern pop

Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
  • Stage
  • Amy O'Connor
  • September 19, 2020, 05:00

The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19

Voice of arts and entertainment industry growing louder and more urgent Voice of arts and entertainment industry growing louder and more urgent
  • Culture
  • Hugh Linehan
  • September 19, 2020, 05:00

Next budget needs to include huge supports for a sector brought to its knees by Covid-19

‘People in raincoats with short hair were going ‘what the f***’s this?’ ’ ‘People in raincoats with short hair were going ‘what the f***’s this?’ ’
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • September 19, 2020, 05:00

Factory legends A Certain Ratio on Curtis, Martin Hannett, Grace Jones and a new album

Stephen Donnelly dodges the questions as Matt Cooper mercilessly pursues the answers Stephen Donnelly dodges the questions as Matt Cooper mercilessly pursues the answers
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Mick Heaney
  • September 18, 2020, 07:25

Radio review: Matt Cooper has a good day at the office. The health minister not so much

Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dream Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dream
  • Culture
  • Patrick Freyne
  • September 18, 2020, 05:00

Patrick Freyne: Antiques Roadshow delves in second World War jingoism while cats plan our demise

Van Morrison’s anti-lockdown songs: ‘No more taking of our freedom, And our God given rights’ Van Morrison’s anti-lockdown songs: ‘No more taking of our freedom, And our God given rights’
  • Music
  • Glen Murphy
  • September 18, 2020, 10:19

Musician’s anti-lockdown songs hit out at UK government, scientists ‘making up crooked facts’

Culture Night 2020: From a Liffey tour to Cork slang lessons, 30 events not to miss Culture Night 2020: From a Liffey tour to Cork slang lessons, 30 events not to miss
  • Culture
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • September 18, 2020, 07:30

Livestreamed orchestra, an interactive universe, live dance and theatre and online rap

Netflix’s Nurse Ratched is a pale imitation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest character Netflix’s Nurse Ratched is a pale imitation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest character
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • September 18, 2020, 06:00

Review: Any resemblance of Ryan Murphy's thrilling curio to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is entirely coincidental

Latest Film

Jason Clarke and Riley Keough in The Devil All the Time Four new films to see this weekend
The Movie Quiz: Marilyn Monroe and a title she did without
Antonio Campos: “Netflix are very supportive of filmmakers. They always came back with thoughtful notes.” Antonio Campos: ‘When I got into the New York Film Academy I lied about my age’
  • Wildfire: the late Nika McGuigan is charismatic in her final role
  • Paris Hilton: ‘I am not a dumb blonde. I’m just very good at pretending to be one’

TV & Radio

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was defiantly upbeat when he appeared on The Last Word. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Stephen Donnelly dodges the questions as Matt Cooper mercilessly pursues the answers

Radio review: Matt Cooper has a good day at the office. The health minister not so much

Sarah Paulson compellingly plays malevolent Mildred as a brittle sociopath. Netflix’s Nurse Ratched is a pale imitation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest character
A line-by-line, death-by-death reminder of the evil of the Troubles
  • Mixed reaction to ‘Instagram Freeze’ by celebrities, despite campaign objective
  • Jennifer Zamparelli overplays her hand in 2FM face mask non-debate

Latest Books

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in an outdoor cafe in the Piazza Navona. Photograph: Francois Lochon/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Letters to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Quentin Hoare

A year of Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s favourite books

Pierre Jarawan. Photograph: Marvin Ruppert ‘Young people party like there’s no tomorrow because they know there might not be one’
Eason’s bookshop on O’Connell St, Dublin. Photograph: Dave Meehan Footfall down but sales up in many bookstores across Ireland
  • Eason offer; Irish book deals; festival news; Gallery at 50; Jan Carson shortlisted
  • Susanna Clark: ‘The weird thing is that as other people’s lives have closed down, mine’s opened up’

Film Reviews

The Devil All The Time: Robert Pattinson as Preston Teagardin. Photograph: Glen Wilson/Netflix The Devil all the Time

 
Brooding Brando-alike Cosmo Jarvis in Nocturnal Nocturnal

 
Paul Simonon of the Clash at a Rock Against Racism concert, Victoria Park, east London, April 1978. Photograph: Syd Sheldon/White Riot White Riot

 
There is a magnetic sense of sisterhood among the culturally varied girl group. Rocks

 

Latest Music

ROISINSHOWCASE Róisín Murphy: If I want to be famous I can just go to a gay club

The accidental pop star on lockdown, her aesthetic and ‘horrific’ modern pop

A Certain Ratio’s Donald Johnson, Jez Kerr and Martin Moscrop: “Part of the reason we sounded like Joy Division was the gothic production of Martin Hannett. It didn’t really suit the music.” Photograph: Paul Husband ‘People in raincoats with short hair were going ‘what the f***’s this?’ ’
Van Morrison: ‘I’m not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already.’ Photograph: Terry Thorp Van Morrison’s anti-lockdown songs: ‘No more taking of our freedom, And our God given rights’
  • Remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years on: the guitar god and the Irish connection
  • The Music Quiz: Pick out the pop star who once worked for Marvel Comics

Book Reviews

No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless
The Harpy: The untethered rage of a woman scorned
Hannah Lynch: ‘the most gifted woman Ireland ever produced’
The Glass Hotel: a fragmented ghost story about the collapse of a Ponzi scheme

Stage

People celebrating the independence of Ireland on O’Connell bridge before midnight on Easter Sunday, 1949. Photograph: Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change

The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19

Eva O’Connor in Mustard. Mustard review: One-woman show set to resonate with audiences
Druid combines representations of raw sorrow, naked nationalism, and raucous humour to honour Gregory’s legacy. DruidGregory review: Captivating performance rooted in history
  • The Electric Kazoo review: Noonan’s mannered show maintains engaging presence
  • Transmission review: One-woman show examines the consequences of our quest for progress

Art & Design

hillen2showcase Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’

The artist on cameras, John Hinde postcards and Newry during the Troubles

John Gerrard’s Mirror Pavilion ‘Even in a pre-Covid world, Mirror Pavilion would have been spectacular’
The Butler Gallery has relocated to Evans’ Home on John’s Quay, Kilkenny. Photograph: Brian Cregan Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home
  • Frank McDonald: What’s not to like about Dublin’s new Kevin St development? Quite a lot
  • The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat

Unthinkable

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

Unthinkable: The Philosopher Queens originated from ‘a disheartening trip to the local bookshop’

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
US president Donald Trump pictured playing golf this summer. Men ‘feel entitled to far more by way of leisure’, says philosopher and author Kate Manne. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA How do you stop male entitlement?
  • What are words worth: do poets and philosophers speak the same language?
  • Does religion deserve to be treated as a joke?

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

Ar an bportach: Sleánadóir ag baint móna i gCo na Gaillimhe. Is le sleán, uirlis ar dhéanamh láí, a bhaintear an mhóin. Grianghraf le caoinchead Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann/Kathleen Price. Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan mhóin?

Tá deireadh na bportach ina chúis bhróin, a scríobhann Séamus Kavanagh

’Ní bheidh d’iarmhairt air sa deireadh ach go mbeidh Breatain nua againn darb ainm Sasana’ Grianghraf: Getty Blúirí Páipéir
Tá na scoileanna ar fud na tíre ar oscailt arís ach tá ar na mic léinn i nDún Dealgan suas le 10 n-uair an chloig a chaitheamh ag taisteal in aghaidh na seachtaine. Photograph: Getty Ag taisteal ó chontae go contae ar thóir oideachas lán-Ghaeilge
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  • Foilsitheoireacht na Gaeilge faoi bhláth

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Maeve McClenaghan takes the faceless homeless names reported in newspapers and fills in their history, personality, joys and tragedies. Photograph: Frank Miller No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless
Emily St John Mandel: her prose is restrained, beautiful for its observation and precision rather than its flourish. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images The Glass Hotel: a fragmented ghost story about the collapse of a Ponzi scheme
Kathy Scott: “Everyone is welcome at Hedge School. It’s an informal training ground where we can come together and ask big questions that inspire us to nudge our human capacity forward.” Hedge School 2020: an Irish drumbeat with a global resonance

Most Read in Culture

1 Mike Murphy after meeting Jennifer O’Connell in Ballsbridge. It’s a headshot for a reason. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Mike Murphy: ‘I won’t do another over-70s lockdown’
2 ROISINSHOWCASE Róisín Murphy: If I want to be famous I can just go to a gay club
3 Fiona Bruce flies a Spitfire over Kent in a Pathé newsreel from the future. Or maybe it’s just the Antiques Roadshow. Photograph: BBC Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dream
4 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
5 Paul Simonon of the Clash at a Rock Against Racism concert, Victoria Park, east London, April 1978. Photograph: Syd Sheldon/White Riot White Riot: When rock fought the racism of David Bowie and Eric Clapton
6 Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was defiantly upbeat when he appeared on The Last Word. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Stephen Donnelly dodges the questions as Matt Cooper mercilessly pursues the answers
7 Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe: both the National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) and the Event Production Industry Covid-19 Working Group (Epic) have published their pre-budget submissions. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images Voice of arts and entertainment industry growing louder and more urgent
8 hillen2showcase Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
9 Van Morrison: ‘I’m not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already.’ Photograph: Terry Thorp Van Morrison’s anti-lockdown songs: ‘No more taking of our freedom, And our God given rights’
10 Red Rock: Paul Hickey as Garda Johno O’Riordan in the finale of the long-running, troubled series. Photograph: Virgin Media Red Rock: How the bold Garda soap-drama died a slow, painful death
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The Music Quiz: Pick out the pop star who once worked for Marvel Comics The Music Quiz: Pick out the pop star who once worked for Marvel Comics

Plus: What comes after ‘a passion in my pants’ and named for a Manson groupie

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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