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Eagle-eyed fans have noticed Jaime Lannister sporting some surprising armour, in a Game of Thrones photo released by HBO Game of Thrones: What to expect in the final season
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jeremy Egner
  • February 21, 2019, 10:00

On April 14th, the eighth and final season of HBO’s biggest hit kicks off. Here’s what’s in it

Oscars 2019: Inside the scramble to make the awards shorter Oscars 2019: Inside the scramble to make the awards shorter
  • Film
  • February 21, 2019, 10:17

Three hours of watching Hollywood celebrate itself seems to be most people’s limit

Cold Pursuit: Liam Neeson’s best film in years but no one’s talking about that Cold Pursuit: Liam Neeson’s best film in years but no one’s talking about that
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • February 21, 2019, 05:32

Review: This revenge thriller will be renowned for its star's racially charged comments

Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Amy O'Connor
  • February 21, 2019, 06:00

Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event

Don McCullin: Photographs you can’t look away from Don McCullin: Photographs you can’t look away from
  • Visual Art
  • Sean Sheehan
  • February 21, 2019, 06:00

Great British photojournalist is celebrated in major Tate retrospective

Brit awards 2019: The 1975 and DJ Calvin Harris lead winners with two awards Brit awards 2019: The 1975 and DJ Calvin Harris lead winners with two awards
  • Music
  • February 20, 2019, 23:40

1975 take British group and British albums f emale artists snubbed for major awards

Cochemea: All My Relations review – Blissful set from globetrotting virtuoso Cochemea: All My Relations review – Blissful set from globetrotting virtuoso
  • Music
  • Dean Van Nguyen
  • February 21, 2019, 05:00

Californian who spent 15 years with the Dap-Kings forges new grooves with indigenous sounds

'What is more trustworthy than nature?' 'What is more trustworthy than nature?'
  • Stage
  • Michael Seaver
  • February 21, 2019, 05:00

The Flora Fauna Project, a new series at D-Light studios, explores how we affect the environment and vice versa

Yola: Walk Through Fire review – Impressive country-soul debut Yola: Walk Through Fire review – Impressive country-soul debut
  • Music
  • Joe Breen
  • February 21, 2019, 07:00

With Dan Auerbach of Black Keys fame at the controls, Yola taps into tasty retro country-soul and Americana

Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm
  • Film
  • February 20, 2019, 15:15

She pulls out of role in Luck after Skydance controversially hires the former Pixar chief

Latest Film

An Oscar statue is pictured at the press preview for the 91st Academy Awards Governors Ball earlier this month. Photograph: AP Oscars 2019: Inside the scramble to make the awards shorter
Jussie Smollett attends the world premiere of Alien: Covenant in London in 2017. Photograph: Getty Images Actor Jussie Smollett charged with filing false police report
Emma Thompson has pulled out of the large-scale animated film. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm
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Film Reviews

Liam Neeson in Cold Pursuit Cold Pursuit

 
Felicity Jones stars as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On The Basis of Sex On the Basis of Sex

 
Jessica Rothe brings her considerable comic chops to Happy Death Day 2U Happy Death Day 2U

 
Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in ‘The Lady Eve’ The Lady Eve

 

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Pink performing at the Brit Awards 2019 at the O2 Arena, London. She picked up the award for outstanding contribution to music. Photograph: Victoria Jones Brit awards 2019: complete list of winners

Calvin harris, The 1975, Pink, Jorja Smith, Little Mix and George Ezra among the winners

Calvin Harris accepts the award for British producer of the year at the 2019 Brit awards. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA Brit awards 2019: The 1975 and DJ Calvin Harris lead winners with two awards
The Blades. Photograph: Terry Thorp Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene
  • All Together Now festival line-up revealed
  • Hozier: Why Seamus Heaney's last words mean so much to me

Album Reviews

Yola: Walk Through Fire

 
Cochemea brings everything together with his smooth play. Cochemea: All My Relations

 
Hozier: Wasteland, Baby!

 
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The Gloaming: 3

 
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Latest Books

Dead bodies lie around the compound of the Peoples Temple cult on November 18th, 1978 after more than 900 members of died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; Photograph: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images The Jonestown massacre: a technicolour tragedy

A 25-year-old writer flew to San Francisco to interview survivors of the 1978 mass suicide

Irish Gothic: fairy stories from Ireland’s 32 counties
Ambassador Collins, Louise O’Neill, Sara Baume, Audrey Magee and moderator Deike Diening of Der Tagesspiegel Irish women writers: ‘This country’s done punishing me. I can do whatever I like now’
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Book Reviews

Mothlight by Adam Scovell review: an unconvincing tale
The Collected Letters of WB Yeats Vol V, 1908-1910 review: An intimate chapter in the history of Ireland
Adèle review: Brisk, unadorned tale of sex addiction
Happening review: An investigation of ‘the reality of an unforgettable event’

TV & Radio

Eagle-eyed fans have noticed Jaime Lannister sporting some surprising armour, in a Game of Thrones photo released by HBO Game of Thrones: What to expect in the final season

On April 14th, the eighth and final season of HBO’s biggest hit kicks off. Here’s what’s in it

Other Voices returns, with plenty of Irish acts including the hotly tipped David Keenan. Photograph: Other Voices Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series
Dating Around: Compulsively watchable TV with impossibly gorgeous people
  • Now You See Me: When cyclists and motorists collide
  • Derry Girls series two premiere leaves audience ‘buzzing’

Stage

Flora Fauna Project explores our relationship with the natural world, and its relationship with people. Photograph: Stace Gill 'What is more trustworthy than nature?'

The Flora Fauna Project, a new series at D-Light studios, explores how we affect the environment and vice versa

Marie Mullen and Seán McGinley: ‘We don’t talk about work at home.’ Photograph: Luca Truffarelli Seán McGinley: ‘I just wonder why more actors don’t marry each other’
Heather: Dermot Magennis and Aenne Barr in Thomas Eccleshare’s two-hander Heather review: If you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, should you judge it by its author?
  • ‘People think when I talk about fatness that I’m trying to get everyone fat’
  • Matthew Bourne: A showman from his head to his toes

Art & Design

Don McCullin, Protester, Cuban Missile Crisis, Whitehall, London (1963) Credit: Don McCullin/Tate Don McCullin: Photographs you can’t look away from

Great British photojournalist is celebrated in major Tate retrospective

Robert Armstrong, ‘Kiribat’ Robert Armstrong takes a swipe at explosive landscapes
“Treating time specially is a human construct and we’re using the wrong language,” says Prof David Berman. ‘Time Tries All Things’: magical physics and the nature of chronology
  • Art in Focus: Landline Gray (2015) by Sean Scully
  • Valentine's Day: A gentle Dublin love story played out on a bus

Unthinkable

‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed

Unthinkable: A philosophy book designed for younger readers takes inspiration from Kerry sage John Moriarty

A group of Chinese Shaolin Buddhist monks on a visit to Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien How to find your inner Zen Buddhist
‘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
  • In despair over climate change? Try ‘active hope’
  • Are humans losing the ability to be idle?

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

Trinity College Dublin The day women demanded to eat at Trinity’s Dining Hall

A ‘striking advance in the progress of the feminist movement in Trinity’

When you pronounce the words food and good, do they rhyme? Do you say roll, bap or blah? The British-Irish Dialect Quiz knows where you come from
Today’s rush-bought petrol station flowers are simply following a grand tradition. Photograph: Reuters Valentine’s Day: rampant consumerism since 1869
  • Plan to turn St Patrick’s Day into month-long shindig
  • How was the Irish Border drawn in the first place?

Tuarascáil

I dtuarascáil na bliana seo atá le foilsiú ar an Déardaoin an 28ú Feabhra áireofar ainmneacha a bhfuil síneadh fada iontu, don chéad uair ó 1964. Grianghraf: Getty Aitheantas don síneadh fada ón bPríomh-Oifig Staidrimh

“Is fearr go deireanach ná go brách” a deir an Coimisinéir Teanga, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, faoin gcinneadh

Más í an réaltfhisic do rogha beidh bóithre romhat ón gcruthú in aon lá amháin go dtí an Ollphléasc ar ais timpeall ar theoiric na foistine agus siar go dtí na turtair an tslí ar fad síos. Griangraif: Getty Lego agus brící eile
Seolfar Eolaire na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge agus an suíomh gréasáin nua ar Dé Satharn an 23ú lá Feabhra. Grianghraf: Getty Nótaí: Eolaire na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge le seoladh
  • Dhá fhocal atá im chloigeann le tamall
  • Gá le reachtaíocht teanga a fhoilsiú go luath - Ó Domhnaill

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1 Liam Neeson in Cold Pursuit Cold Pursuit: Liam Neeson’s best film in years but no one’s talking about that
2 Eagle-eyed fans have noticed Jaime Lannister sporting some surprising armour, in a Game of Thrones photo released by HBO Game of Thrones: What to expect in the final season
3 Irish Gothic: fairy stories from Ireland’s 32 counties
4 Other Voices returns, with plenty of Irish acts including the hotly tipped David Keenan. Photograph: Other Voices Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series
5 Michael Jackson with James Safechuck, one of his accusers, in 1988. Photograph: Eugene Adebari/Rex Features Michael Jackson: Leaving Neverland ‘devastating’ first trailer released
6 Emma Thompson has pulled out of the large-scale animated film. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm
7 The Blades. Photograph: Terry Thorp Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene
8 Brie Larson: ‘I don’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work about A Wrinkle in Time’. Photograph: Noam Galai/WireImage Brie Larson is sick of being interviewed by ‘white dudes’
9 Dead bodies lie around the compound of the Peoples Temple cult on November 18th, 1978 after more than 900 members of died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; Photograph: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images The Jonestown massacre: a technicolour tragedy
10 ‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed
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