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Audrey Hepburn in a promotional still from the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Photograph courtesy Everett Collection/Getty Images Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 26, 2020, 05:00

He was a fascist who walked out on the family. No wonder the star had father issues

Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 26, 2020, 14:30

But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?

Four new statues to end Trinity Long Room’s ‘men only’ image Four new statues to end Trinity Long Room’s ‘men only’ image
  • Art & Design
  • Sarah Burns
  • November 26, 2020, 15:05

Sculptures of Rosalind Franklin, Augusta Gregory, Ada Lovelace and Mary Wollstonecraft to join 40 busts of men

Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand
  • Film
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • November 26, 2020, 14:06

John Patrick Shanley defends accents of Emily Blunt, Christopher Walken and Jamie Dornan

Late Late Toy Show 2020: The one that ‘nearly didn’t happen’ Late Late Toy Show 2020: The one that ‘nearly didn’t happen’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • November 26, 2020, 06:00

‘My dream is to make this beautiful,’ says presenter Ryan Tubridy of Roald Dahl-themed show

‘He’s Jekyll and Hyde’: The inside story of an Irish barrister and conman ‘He’s Jekyll and Hyde’: The inside story of an Irish barrister and conman
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • November 25, 2020, 21:55

TV review: This is no Netflix true-crime exposé, but an exercise in journalistic diligence

An Post Irish Book Awards 2020: a celebration of great writing An Post Irish Book Awards 2020: a celebration of great writing
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • November 25, 2020, 20:25

Donal Ryan, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Graham Norton, Luke O’Neill and Dara McAnulty among winners

The Crown’s Josh O’Connor: ‘I’m a republican. I’m not interested in the royal family’ The Crown’s Josh O’Connor: ‘I’m a republican. I’m not interested in the royal family’
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kathryn Shattuck
  • November 25, 2020, 06:00

As Prince Charles on The Crown, the ‘liberal left-winger’ has thrived in a role he never sought

Michael Kiwanuka: ‘If you’re a creative, you don’t try and be that, you just are’ Michael Kiwanuka: ‘If you’re a creative, you don’t try and be that, you just are’
  • Culture
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • November 25, 2020, 05:00

Mercury-prize winner on perseverance, lockdown and his latest album

The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Murphy
  • November 25, 2020, 05:00

Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape

Latest Film

In at No. 10: Saoirse Ronan. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in Wild Mountain Thyme Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand
Audrey Hepburn in a promotional still from the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Photograph courtesy Everett Collection/Getty Images Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin
  • ‘After I won an Oscar everybody agreed with everything I said’
  • Anthony Hopkins: ‘I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be rich’

TV & Radio

RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy will channel Fantastic Mr Fox for the opening number of The Late Late Toy Show 2020. The theme for the show is The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl. Photograph: Andres Poveda Late Late Toy Show 2020: The one that ‘nearly didn’t happen’

‘My dream is to make this beautiful,’ says presenter Ryan Tubridy of Roald Dahl-themed show

Patrick Russell pleaded guilty in 2019 to the theft of €215,000 from a Kildare company. Photograph: Collins Courts ‘He’s Jekyll and Hyde’: The inside story of an Irish barrister and conman
Josh O’Connor at his home in London. Photograph: Charlotte Hadden/The New York Times The Crown’s Josh O’Connor: ‘I’m a republican. I’m not interested in the royal family’
  • The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears
  • How much damage might your money be doing on Black Friday?

Latest Books

Poet Stephen Sexton has been awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020 for his first collection, If All the World and Love Were Young. Stephen Sexton wins Rooney Prize and Jim McElroy wins Francis Ledwidge award

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a roundup of the latest literary news

Emer Cleary, founder of Emu Ink The Covid Book Project: turning pupils into published authors
Donal Ryan: “Books, like all art, offer an escape route, however temporary, from the relentlessness of this year of fear and isolation, and I’m happy to have been able to offer some tiny break in the clouds for my readers.” Photograph: Clare Keogh An Post Irish Book Awards 2020: a celebration of great writing
  • Writer’s block: how to be creative even in crisis
  • YA fiction: Growing up black in the US

Film Reviews

Jack Charlton at a friendly between the Republic of Ireland and England at the Aviva Stadium in 2015. Photograph: David Maher/Sportsfile Finding Jack Charlton

 
Dolly Parton in Dolly Parton’s Christmas On The Square Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square

 
Patrick is set in a nudist colony Patrick

 
Director Nanau and his crew shot footage for 14 months Collective

 

Latest Music

Shane MacGowan at the Olympia Theatre on March 14th, 2003. Photograph: Haydn West The Music Quiz: What was Shane MacGowan’s first band called?

Plus: Lou Reed’s literary Walk, that bogus Beatlemania, eight decades in the top 5

Fontaines DC will compete in the best rock album category against The Strokes, Grace Porter, Sturgill Simpson and Michael Kiwanuka, who won the Mercury Prize this year. Photograph: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/New York Times Grammys 2021: Fontaines DC get best rock album nomination as Beyoncé leads way
Luther Vandross, Kelly Clarkson, Leroy Clare and Britney Spears. Photographs: Getty Images Ten of the best Christmas songs (that aren’t by Mariah Carey)
  • 'Pain and passion': The artists giving voice to the black Irish experience
  • Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk: ‘I don’t want to go down the road of nostalgia’

Book Reviews

Greed Is Dead: Gekko got it wrong
Fathoms: The World in the Whale goes deep
The Dead of the Irish Revolution: An absorbing book that counts the cost of war
Fuel by Seán O’Brien: engagingly frank but could have shed a few pages

Stage

A new play seeks to challenge Samuel Beckett’s instructions that only men may appear in Waiting for Godot. Photograph: Ali Wright Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged

Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play

Callan Cummins Matthew Malone and Mary Murray in Fishamble: The New Play Company’s Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan. Photograph: Anthony Woods Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanistic
Niall Henry, artistic director of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in Sligo. Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge
  • The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packages
  • Looking for América review: Memory tells a different kind of truth

Art & Design

The Long Room at Trinity College Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / THE IRISH TIMES Four new statues to end Trinity Long Room’s ‘men only’ image

Sculptures of Rosalind Franklin, Augusta Gregory, Ada Lovelace and Mary Wollstonecraft to join 40 busts of men

The object was spotted in Utah by state officials who were helping to count sheep from a helicopter. Photograph: Utah Department of Public Safety/PA New wave art or Kubrick homage? Pilot spots ‘strange’ monolith
Christmas displays in the Belgian city of Oudenburg. Photograph: Anthony Dumarey A Belgian city’s unintentionally phallic Christmas lights
  • Henri Matisse: A jolt of happiness from a humanist painter
  • Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be ‘honoured’ with his schlong out?

Unthinkable

People don’t have to be ‘going on the lash’ to celebrate Christmas meaningfully, the Taoiseach says. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire Micheál Martin wants us to have ‘a meaningful Christmas’ – but what does that mean?

Unthinkable: Perhaps existentialism can help us navigate the Taoiseach’s suggestion

Abeba Birhane: ‘You do find a lot of people adhering to this illusion of objectivity – this illusion that they are doing science from “the view from nowhere”.’ Who is more racist, sexist and biased: You or your computer?
Mind the mind: According to panpsychists, consciousness is not exclusive to humans; it’s in rocks, carrots, molecules and anywhere else you can mention. Photograph: Getty Images Carrots with minds of their own? The weird theory of panpsychism
  • Five lessons of Stoicism: What I learned from living for a week as a Stoic
  • Why work more than 15 hours a week?

Heritage

Lieut Peter Ames Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of wounds received

Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company

After Bloody Sunday November 21st 1920, the bodies of British officers assassinated in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence are taken back to England for burial. The men were members of British intelligence cell, the Cairo Gang. File photograph: Getty Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland
Julianne McKeigue, a great-niece of Michael Hogan(photo on wall in background). Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times Bloody Sunday 1920: Michael Hogan’s family’s second tragedy
  • Bloody Sunday 1920: Who were Michael Collins’s hit team ‘The Squad’?
  • Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle

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

Dan Donnelly: Tharla an troid ba cháiliúla ar an 13 Nollaig 1815 nuair a chuaigh Donnelly i gcoimhlint leis an Sasanach George Cooper i gcoire nádúrtha beag in ‘Belcher’s Hollow’ sa Churrach. Dan Donnelly: Curadh Trodach na nGael in am an ghátair

Istigh i gcás gloine os cionn mhatal an teallaigh bhí lámh dheas mhumaithe Dan Donnelly

Tá seans maith ann go mbeadh Alba níos fearr as ar fhágaint na Banríochta dóibh. Tá seans eile nach mbeadh... Grianghraif: Andy Buchanan/Getty Images An Ghaoth Anoir Aduaidh
Máirtín Tom Sheáinín ar a lá deireanach ag cur Ardtráthnóna i láthair ar RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Dé Céadaoin 4 Samhain 2020 ‘Níor chuimhnigh mé riamh ariamh sa saol go ndéanfainn aon chraoltóireacht’
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Michael Douglas as 1980s Wall Street predator Gordon Gekko. ‘The theme is evident from the title. Gekko is wrong. Greed is bad and it is dead.’ Greed Is Dead: Gekko got it wrong
Yusef Salaam, one of the five boys once known as the Central Park Five. Photograph: Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images YA fiction: Growing up black in the US
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1 Patrick Russell pleaded guilty in 2019 to the theft of €215,000 from a Kildare company. Photograph: Collins Courts ‘He’s Jekyll and Hyde’: The inside story of an Irish barrister and conman
2 In at No. 10: Saoirse Ronan. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
3 Audrey Hepburn in a promotional still from the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Photograph courtesy Everett Collection/Getty Images Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin
4 Josh O’Connor at his home in London. Photograph: Charlotte Hadden/The New York Times The Crown’s Josh O’Connor: ‘I’m a republican. I’m not interested in the royal family’
5 Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in Wild Mountain Thyme Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand
6 Michael J Fox has published his fourth memoir. Photograph: Celeste Sloman/The New York Times Michael J Fox: ‘In the wheelchair, I’m luggage. No one listens to luggage’
7 The Long Room at Trinity College Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / THE IRISH TIMES Four new statues to end Trinity Long Room’s ‘men only’ image
8 RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy will channel Fantastic Mr Fox for the opening number of The Late Late Toy Show 2020. The theme for the show is The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl. Photograph: Andres Poveda Late Late Toy Show 2020: The one that ‘nearly didn’t happen’
9 Donal Ryan: “Books, like all art, offer an escape route, however temporary, from the relentlessness of this year of fear and isolation, and I’m happy to have been able to offer some tiny break in the clouds for my readers.” Photograph: Clare Keogh An Post Irish Book Awards 2020: a celebration of great writing
10 Foreground photograph: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in order
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The Music Quiz: What was Shane MacGowan’s first band called? The Music Quiz: What was Shane MacGowan’s first band called?

Plus: Lou Reed’s literary Walk, that bogus Beatlemania, eight decades in the top 5

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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