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Tolü Makay Tolü Makay: At boarding school she was called ‘by my middle name, Elizabeth, instead of my first name. It taught me that I didn’t have a voice’ Tolü Makay: My experience at boarding school in Ireland ‘created a whole identity crisis’
  • Culture
  • Tanya Sweeney
  • April 19, 2021, 06:00

The singer spoke to Róisín Ingle at Saturday’s Irish Times Big Night In online event

‘Do you think humans will ever walk on the sun?’: The best of Yahoo Answers ‘Do you think humans will ever walk on the sun?’: The best of Yahoo Answers
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • April 19, 2021, 06:00

One of the web’s first Q&A platforms, repository of infamously idiosyncratic wisdom, is closing

An Irish former alt-right YouTuber explains his methods An Irish former alt-right YouTuber explains his methods
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Cade Metz
  • April 19, 2021, 06:00

Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Reinforce the narrative. Don’t worry if it’s true

‘I took friends to the woods or docks, then asked if they thought I would make a good murderer’ ‘I took friends to the woods or docks, then asked if they thought I would make a good murderer’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • April 19, 2021, 05:00

Gillian Wallace Horvat’s mockumentary I Blame Society exposes the obstacles for women directors

‘I’m still proud of it’: Parminder Nagra on Bend It Like Beckham and pushing the envelope ‘I’m still proud of it’: Parminder Nagra on Bend It Like Beckham and pushing the envelope
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Coco Khan
  • April 19, 2021, 06:00

The ER star, whose new role is in Sky’s Intergalactic, on changing attitudes to actors of colour

Riz Ahmed: ‘Being with the deaf community taught me what listening really means’ Riz Ahmed: ‘Being with the deaf community taught me what listening really means’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • April 17, 2021, 05:00

The actor dived in the deep end to play a newly deaf drummer in Sound of Metal

Denise Gough: ‘It’s only recently women get to play parts that usually go to boys’ Denise Gough: ‘It’s only recently women get to play parts that usually go to boys’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • April 17, 2021, 06:00

Irish actor on her character choices, catching Covid-19 and why she avoids social media

Richard Thompson on the Fairport Convention years: ‘I probably never went on stage sober’ Richard Thompson on the Fairport Convention years: ‘I probably never went on stage sober’
  • Books
  • Peter Murphy
  • April 17, 2021, 06:00

The ex-Fairport Convention songwriter on booze, Irish folk and ‘volatile’ Sandy Denny

Why am I singing an old Labi Siffre song into my iPad? It must be love Why am I singing an old Labi Siffre song into my iPad? It must be love
  • Music
  • Hugh Linehan
  • April 17, 2021, 07:00

It seems like madness, but being in a Zoom choir with my work colleagues is quite uplifting

Donald Clarke: Digging for dirt in Nomadland’s soil Donald Clarke: Digging for dirt in Nomadland’s soil
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • April 17, 2021, 05:00

Mud-slinging at Chloé Zhao over work scenes set in Amazon warehouse unlikely to stick

Latest Film

Gillian Wallace Horvat: ‘There’s a stigma that prevents so many women from becoming film-makers’ ‘I took friends to the woods or docks, then asked if they thought I would make a good murderer’
Riz Ahmed: ‘Being with the deaf community taught me what listening really means’
Orson Welles in poster art for The Third Man (1949) The Movie Quiz: What is Switzerland’s only contribution to world culture, according to Harry Lime?
  • Four new films to stream this weekend
  • Wild Mountain Thyme will now be released in Ireland on April 30th. Brace yourself

TV & Radio

Parminder Nagra:’... I’m still proud of the film. It’s probably what I’m most recognised for.’ Photograph: PremierComms ‘I’m still proud of it’: Parminder Nagra on Bend It Like Beckham and pushing the envelope

The ER star, whose new role is in Sky’s Intergalactic, on changing attitudes to actors of colour

Yahoo Answers: the go-to for queries too embarrassing to ask in person and too complex to answer by search ‘Do you think humans will ever walk on the sun?’: The best of Yahoo Answers
Caolan Robertson: the activist has disavowed his work and is now revealing the far-right’s methods. Photograph: Alexander Ingram/New York Times An Irish former alt-right YouTuber explains his methods
  • TV guide: 27 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight
  • Denise Gough: ‘It’s only recently women get to play parts that usually go to boys’

Latest Books

Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir in 1971: creative forces behind the Gate Theatre. Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty The Gate: From avant-garde nationalism to cultural convergence

Two critical works address a lack of focus on the role and history of the Gate Theatre

A bronze statue of a bull fighting with a bear is displayed at the Museum of American Finance in October 2008 on Wall St. in New York City. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images How the financial crisis screwed fairness, and what to do about it
Hilary Fannin. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell The Books Quiz: What is the name of Hilary Fannin’s poignant 2015 memoir?
  • The landmark paternity suit that ruined an entire family
  • Mona Eltahawy: I’m serious about women fighting back. I want patriarchy to fear us

Film Reviews

Henry Glassie Henry Glassie: Field Work

 
Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal Sound of Metal

 
Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman Promising Young Woman

 
The goofily charming Dylan O’Brien and excellent dog Boy in Love and Monsters. Photograph: Paramount Pictures Love and Monsters

 

Latest Music

Denise Brueckl, Saoirse Daly and Aisling and Ciara O’Riordan at the launch of the reimagined Cork International Choral Festival. Will the Irish Times Irish Examiner Choir win the Workplace Choir of the Year competition with their rendition of It Must Be Love? Photograph: Claire Keogh Why am I singing an old Labi Siffre song into my iPad? It must be love

It seems like madness, but being in a Zoom choir with my work colleagues is quite uplifting

Richard Thompson on stage at his 70th birthday celebration show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 2019. Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns Richard Thompson on the Fairport Convention years: ‘I probably never went on stage sober’
Cry Baby: Noel Hogan and Bronagh Gallager Did you hear the one about the Cranberry and the Commitment?
  • Tolü Makay: ‘I listen to anything that makes me feel good... You need to get up and dance’
  • ‘Another drink / clean the sink’: Mick Jagger’s lockdown was just as boring as yours

Book Reviews

The Light of Days: The untold story of the Jewish resistance’s women fighters
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle: Entertaining romp through 18th-century Europe
The Middle East Crisis Factory: Angry rallying cry for human rights
Line by Niall Bourke: Where life is one long queue

Stage

Teresa Deevy: in recent years, critical attention has turned to her radio drama. Teresa Deevy and the secrets of the green suitcase

Best known for her productions at the Abbey, the Waterford playwright also wrote for radio, and there’s a mystery surrounding the origins of unpublished work under a pseudonym

George RR Martin: “It ought to be spectacular.” Photograph: Colby Katz/New York Times Game of Thrones new stage show to feature ‘love, vengeance, madness’
The Gate’s Selina Cartmell: ‘We were fighting for our lives’
  • Home: Part One – Abbey stream amplifies the voices of silenced mother and baby home survivors
  • Think you can’t dance? Here’s how to learn everything from the WAP routine to 80s throwbacks

Art & Design

Frank Gehry at his architecture studio in Los Angeles. Photograph: Erik Carter/The New York Times Frank Gehry: ‘I'm just free to build, now I don't have to worry about fees’

Renowned architect is focused on social justice projects but also has lighthearted pursuits

Salvator Mundi: the Louvre has certified it as the work of Leonardo da Vinci. But it kept those findings secret after a squabble with the painting’s owners. Photograph: Benjamin Norman/New York Times The mystery of the Salvator Mundi: Where has Leonardo da Vinci’s €375m painting gone?
A motorbike drives past the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12 April 2021. Cambodian authorities called on US media group Vice and Irish artist Matt Loughrey to withdraw an article featured altered images of Khmer Rouge victims. The article was later removed from the Vice website. EPA/KITH SEREY The Khmer Rouge controversy: Why colourising old photos is always a falsification of history
  • Charlie Whisker: ‘The coolest dad, a rockstar, with a different way of looking at the world’
  • ‘I’ve seen a massive increase in Irish customers’

Unthinkable

‘We evolved to signal our moral credentials to other people.’ Photograph: Getty images Do we really care about right and wrong, or are we just virtue signalling?

Unthinkable: Morality has got humans this far, but do we need to outgrow it?

Clinical psychologist and author Frank Tallis believes there are some practical therapy tools people could learn from a young age Telling men to open up is not enough – teach them how
Wouter Kusters, author of A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking What’s it like to go mad? Meet the man who found out
  • The problem today is we trust too much, not too little
  • Why are people so sensitive about cultural appropriation?

Heritage

‘Moore Street and its immediate surroundings have suffered from decades of neglect,’ said the Green Party. File photograph: The Irish Times Conservation protections planned for Moore Street

Councillors agree emergency motion to initiate change to Dublin city development plan

The treaty makers, December 6th, 1921: Including Arthur Griffith, Eamonn Duggan, Michael Collins, Robert Barton; standing, Gavan Duffy. Photograph: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two
The historical Éire sign in Howth which is being restored. File photograph: Enda O’Dowd Work to restore Éire sign from second World War begins at Howth Head
  • The legacy of bitterness caused by the 1981 hunger strikes continues
  • What Bobby Sands means to me: ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’

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

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Is gné fhíor álainn dár dtimpeallacht nádúrtha na crainn atá ar gach taobh dínn

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Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir in 1971: creative forces behind the Gate Theatre. Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty The Gate: From avant-garde nationalism to cultural convergence
Polish Jewish resistance women, captured after the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Light of Days: The untold story of the Jewish resistance’s women fighters
A Yemeni protester is tossed into the air by comrades during a rally marking the third anniversary of the 2011 revolution: “A certain strand of western thought has always seen us, the people of the Middle East, as somehow lesser on the ladder of humanity.” Photograph: Mohammed Huwais The Middle East Crisis Factory: Angry rallying cry for human rights

Most Read in Culture

1 John Cameron (86) has written a book about his extraordinary origins, called Boy 11963. The landmark paternity suit that ruined an entire family

2 Caolan Robertson: the activist has disavowed his work and is now revealing the far-right’s methods. Photograph: Alexander Ingram/New York Times An Irish former alt-right YouTuber explains his methods

3 Gillian Wallace Horvat: ‘There’s a stigma that prevents so many women from becoming film-makers’ ‘I took friends to the woods or docks, then asked if they thought I would make a good murderer’

4 Yahoo Answers: the go-to for queries too embarrassing to ask in person and too complex to answer by search ‘Do you think humans will ever walk on the sun?’: The best of Yahoo Answers

5 Tolü Makay Tolü Makay: At boarding school she was called ‘by my middle name, Elizabeth, instead of my first name. It taught me that I didn’t have a voice’ Tolü Makay: My experience at boarding school in Ireland ‘created a whole identity crisis’

6 Richard Thompson on stage at his 70th birthday celebration show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 2019. Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns Richard Thompson on the Fairport Convention years: ‘I probably never went on stage sober’

7 Liam O’Dwyer, left, the Commandant of the IRA’s Beara Battalion, wrote an internal IRA report explaining why his organisation had ‘bobbed’ and then executed Bridget Noble. ‘It is not clean work to take away my lone defenceless wife’: The killing of Bridget Noble

8 Manchán Magan: offering at-risk words to anybody willing to care for them, to nourish and nurture them, to slip them into sentences and to named loved ones after them Adopt an endangered Irish word and become a guardian of Gaeilge

9 Parminder Nagra:’... I’m still proud of the film. It’s probably what I’m most recognised for.’ Photograph: PremierComms ‘I’m still proud of it’: Parminder Nagra on Bend It Like Beckham and pushing the envelope

10 The mural in Belfast to Bobby Sands What Bobby Sands means to me: ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’

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Plus: Boybanders attempt a U2 and an alt.country star goes to Hollywood

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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