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FAMILY SNAP: Ibrahim Halawa, freshly released from prison in Egypt after a lengthy campaign to release him, meeting members of his family before meeting the media, friends and supporters on his arrival at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Halawa family

Images of the Day

In pictures; Storm Brian

In pictures; Storm Brian

In Pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

In Pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

Trees down, rainbows up: Readers' pics of Hurricane Ophelia

Trees down, rainbows up: Readers' pics of Hurricane Ophelia

In Pictures: Clearing up in the wake of Ophelia

In Pictures: Clearing up in the wake of Ophelia

Ophelia in Pictures

Ophelia in Pictures

California wildfires tear through wine country

California wildfires tear through wine country

Sport photography

Leinster's Rory O'Loughlin runs in his side's second try. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho

Gallery: Leinster v Munster

All the action from the Pro 14 derby clash at the Aviva Stadium

All-Ireland Ladies' football finals

All-Ireland Ladies' football finals

All Ireland Football Finals

All Ireland Football Finals

More photography

Members of the Chorus in the Green room backstage during a dress rehearsal of Risurrezione by Franco Alfano which will be part of the 66th Wexford Festival Opera opening Thursday 19th October. All photographs: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

Behind the scenes at Wexford Festival Opera

Goya's "The Disasters of War" goes on exhibition in Dublin

Goya's "The Disasters of War" goes on exhibition in Dublin

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies (91)

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies (91)

Photography reads

Portarlington, Co Laois: The letters on the seats in the stand read ‘PORT’, local slang for the town. The industrial building overlooking the pitch is an Odlum’s factory. “The two guys look like they’ve become almost symbiotic being together. It was taken in February and you’ve got that grey start to a league campaign feeling,” he says.

Why I secretly photographed GAA pitches for seven years

Paul Carroll travelled 31,000 miles to capture the seasonal changes of GAA for a book

Playing Cards in front of Custom House, 1969. Photograph: Nutan

‘Irlande 66/69’: photographs of Ireland taken in the 1960s

This new book by photographers Nutan and Yellow documents life almost 50 years ago

Photographer Bobbie Hanvey. Photograph by Patricia Pyne

Brian Friel by Bobbie Hanvey - a life in pictures

Photographer Bobby Hanvey had unrivalled access to Brian Friel. Here, we republish a story on a 2008 exhibition and a select gallery of some of his photographs of Friel

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“Not Enough Water to Drown a Man”: Photographing the Burren | Gallery

Photographer Carsten Krieger’s photo book looks at the Burren, one of Ireland’s most beautiful and fascinating habitats

Gallery | An imperfect normality: daily life in Syria before the chaos

This retrospective exhibition gives a pictures of Syria before the outbreak of war in 2011

‘The Irish weather is terrible. I love it.’ | Gallery

Photographer Stephen Bradley has taken advantage of Ireland’s inclement weather by developing a unique Turneresque style of landscape photography

From Humans of Dublin: Bill Doran on life after the death of his wife Anne. “In the back garden we used to grow tomato plants, but she died about 18 months ago so I stopped growing them.”

Humans of Dublin: 'I was just waiting for my turn' | Gallery

The Humans of Dublin project continues to grow in popularity. Here’s another selection of shots

Stan Douglas at Imma: Every picture reveals a thousand details

Imma is showing the work of the renowned Canadian photographer

Gallery: a photobook from Down Under for PhotoIreland festival

Run entirely by voluntary effort and as eclectic as ever, the PhotoIreland festival features multiple exhibitions as well as book launches, portfolio reviews and a book fair

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Gallery: The Europeans - how Europe and its people are changing

The Europeans is a long-term photo-documentary project exploring how Europe and its people are changing as the European Union continues to expand

The Skelligs

Ireland from the Air Corps

The Irish Air Corps enjoy some of the best views in Ireland. The force’s photographic unit, 105 Squadron, captured these images in the course of their work

Taken in 1975, this is the first of 40 years worth of portraits of the Brown sisters, taken by Nicholas Nixon. They were photographed in this order every year over four decades. From left: Heather (then 23), Mimi (15), Bebe (25), and Laurie (21)

Snap happy: sisters photographed every year for 40 years

A series of photographs taken of four sisters over a 40 year period has been exhibited at MoMa and seen around the world. Now a complete set of the images has come on the market

Irish Times video

Ireland

Tales from a tailback on Ireland's busiest road

2:37 Tales from a tailback on Ireland's busiest road

Education

Artificial babies but real life situations, tour the new RCSI building

2:04 Artificial babies but real life situations, tour the new RCSI building

Ireland

One homeowner's experience of flooding due to Hurricane Ophelia

1:37 One homeowner's experience of flooding due to Hurricane Ophelia

Technology

Take a tour of LinkedIn's new international HQ in Dublin

2:29 Take a tour of LinkedIn's new international HQ in Dublin

The Times We Lived In: Play it again, Sam

The Times We Lived In: Play it again, Sam

Arminta Wallace

Published, November 4th, 1972. Photograph by Dermot O’Shea

Summer Pix 16 - The 30 best photographs

Summer Pix 16 - The 30 best photographs

Here is the winner and 29 other highlights from the Summer Pix 16 photography competition in association with Harvey Norman

Summer Pix 16 Competition

Most Read in Culture

A sneak preview inside the refurbished Stella cinema in Rathmines

Any idiot could play Magneto. You just turn up, scowl a bit, throw a submarine at an aeroplane with your mind and then cash the cheque

Can Michael Fassbender rescue his terrible year?

Welcome newcomer Valkyrie is given a boozed-up, kicking-out-time vigour by Tessa Thompson

Thor Ragnarok: ‘For anybody who likes the scent of the herb’

Beck: U2 are generous, personable and masters of songwriting

The King’s Speech

Who will scavenge the flotsam from the Weinstein wreck?

Susan Ryan: author of The King of Lavender Square

Writing is not just a desk job

Con Drury, probably photographed by Wittgenstein when he visited Dublin in 1936. Photograph: Wittgenstein Archive Cambridge

Con Drury, Wittgenstein’s Irish interpreter

Estimates of how many died vary from 300 to 800, a remarkably low figure given the ferocity of the storm

The calm before the Big Wind of 1839 was particularly eerie

‘I’m done with humble,’ says Caoilfhionn Dunne’s mercurial Katie, shrugging off the shackles of 1930s Ireland. ‘Didn’t I always know I have greatness in me.’

Katie Roche: Ambitions of greatness for a woman in search of character

Anyone for torture? BBC’s Gunpowder

‘Gunpowder’: It’s got Kit Harington but no plot

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