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No holding back: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with Oprah Winfrey. Photograph: Joe Pugliese/Harpo via AP Oprah with Meghan and Harry: One by one the bombshells drop
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 8, 2021, 08:24

TV review: The couple’s devastating interview is a damning portrait of Britain’s sacred institution

Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • March 8, 2021, 00:25

TV review: Restrained Dervla Kirwan steals the show from melodramatic Seána Kerslake

Electric Picnic hopes vaccination programme will allow festival proceed Electric Picnic hopes vaccination programme will allow festival proceed
  • Music
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • March 8, 2021, 13:30

Event licences for most outdoor festivals in the State were rolled over from last year

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan: Now women can be obnoxious eejits too – thank God Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan: Now women can be obnoxious eejits too – thank God
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Nicola Coughlan
  • March 8, 2021, 06:00

My Derry Girls and Bridgerton roles show women our complex, stupid selves on screen

Roy Greenslade and the IRA: I was his editor. His admission raises hard questions Roy Greenslade and the IRA: I was his editor. His admission raises hard questions
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Alan Rusbridger
  • March 8, 2021, 01:00

The Guardian’s former media commentator should have been clear about his sympathies

Julie Delpy: I’m not a megalomaniac. I’m a perfectionist Julie Delpy: I’m not a megalomaniac. I’m a perfectionist
  • Film
  • Roslyn Sulcas
  • March 8, 2021, 06:00

The creator of cloning film My Zoe refuses to be pigeonholed

Think you can’t dance? Here’s how to learn everything from the WAP routine to 80s throwbacks Think you can’t dance? Here’s how to learn everything from the WAP routine to 80s throwbacks
  • Stage
  • Siobhan Burke
  • March 8, 2021, 06:00

A good online tutorial can be the difference between a frustrating process and a fulfilling one

What does the internet sound like? What does the internet sound like?
  • Books
  • Roisin Kiberd
  • March 8, 2021, 06:00

How an obscure online music genre restored Roisin Kiberd’s faith in the internet

How will Denis O’Brien’s departure change the Irish media landscape? How will Denis O’Brien’s departure change the Irish media landscape?
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Hugh Linehan
  • March 7, 2021, 07:00

Hugh Linehan: The era of moguls has run its course; European conglomerates have arrived

Mary McAleese: My ‘heart went out’ to Mary Robinson – and to Princess Latifa Mary McAleese: My ‘heart went out’ to Mary Robinson – and to Princess Latifa
  • Culture
  • Tanya Sweeney
  • March 6, 2021, 23:59

The former president was speaking to Róisín Ingle at The Irish Times Big Night In

Latest Film

Julie Delpy, who wrote, directed and stars in the new film, My Zoe, in Los Angeles. Photograph: Jake Michaels/The New York Times Julie Delpy: I’m not a megalomaniac. I’m a perfectionist
The late Saudi journalist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi: His murder is the subject of The Dissident. The killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Dial MBS for murder
Phil Kennedy during brain surgery Father of the Cyborgs: The Irish neurologist who hacked his own brain
  • Four new films to stream this weekend
  • The Movie Quiz: How many films have Scorsese and De Niro made together?

TV & Radio

Guests included Independent Senator Lynn Ruane, transgender woman and activist Aoife Martin, journalist Brianna Parkins and activist Ailbhe Smyth Irish women tell tales of ‘overcoming’ for International Women’s Day

Guests share stories of ‘choosing to challenge’ on The Irish Times Women’s Podcast

No holding back: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with Oprah Winfrey. Photograph: Joe Pugliese/Harpo via AP Oprah with Meghan and Harry: One by one the bombshells drop
Bridgerton: Nicola Coughlan and Claudia Jessie’s characters are perhaps its biggest love story. Photograph: Netflix Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan: Now women can be obnoxious eejits too – thank God
  • Roy Greenslade and the IRA: I was his editor. His admission raises hard questions
  • Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like

Latest Books

Women on the platform of Connolly Station, Dublin in 1971 prior to bording the Belfast train to buy contraceptives, which were then illegal in the Republic. Nell McCafferty is pictured second left. Photograph: The Irish Times Chains or Change: the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement 50 years on

Author and activist Rosita Sweetman on a landmark date in history of Irish feminism

Roisin Kiberd: ‘There’s a contradiction at the heart of our internet use, which stops it from feeling satisfying; however many people we connect with, we always scroll alone.’ What does the internet sound like?
Marita Conlon-McKenna at home in Dublin.Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Marita Conlon-McKenna: from Under the Hawthorn Tree to The Hungry Road
  • The Books Quiz: A world map as seen from Corkadoragha shows which US cities?
  • How to avoid being replaced by a robot at work

Film Reviews

Sylvester Stallone: Whatever he was paid, it wasn’t worth it Backtrace

 
Hadley Robinson as Vivian in Moxie Moxie

 
Kelly Marie Tran plays Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon. Raya and the Last Dragon

 
Nobody with a sense for contemplative cinema will be left unsatisfied by Notturno Notturno

 

Latest Music

Campers at Electric Picnic, Stradbally Co Laois.Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Electric Picnic hopes vaccination programme will allow festival proceed

Event licences for most outdoor festivals in the State were rolled over from last year

British composer Daphne Oram: invented Oramics, a method of painting shapes on to 35mm film which were then converted into sound. Photograph: Daphne Oram Trust Sisters With Transistors: Pioneering women and electronic music
Sinead Kennedy: I listen to music whatever I’m doing, and during the pandemic I’ve found it takes me away to other worlds, places and times – which is a much-needed feeling ‘We totally gatecrashed Dolores O’Riordan’s wedding. I loved her punk style’
  • Arab Strap: Older, wiser and still miserable
  • Reggae icon Bunny Wailer, last Wailers member, dies aged 73

Book Reviews

Klara and the Sun: a welcome return to form
Women and the Irish Revolution: Vital and valuable insights
The Disconnect: Stark thoughts on the lonely dystopia of the internet
De Valera and Roosevelt by Bernadette Whelan: Irish-US relations in the 1930s

Stage

Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation. Photograph: A&M Records Think you can’t dance? Here’s how to learn everything from the WAP routine to 80s throwbacks

A good online tutorial can be the difference between a frustrating process and a fulfilling one

‘I’ve never done live stuff ever. It absolutely terrifies me. The idea of being heckled, I think, scares me more than anything else.’ Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Michael Fry: ‘I’ve never done live stuff ever. It absolutely terrifies me’
Gare St Lazare’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is. Photograph: Clare Keogh Cork theatre-makers waiting in the wings to step into the new normal
  • Abbey Theatre: New artistic and executive directors announced
  • Claudia Carroll: My wish for 2021? That bums end up on actual seats in an actual theatre

Art & Design

A computer-generated image of how the Waterfront South Central development (right) may look. Image: Visual Lab Johnny Ronan replies to Frank McDonald: Tall buildings must be part of Dublin’s future

Waterfront South Central is a solution – not ‘two fingers’ – to Dublin’s problems

Eoghan Nolan at home in Bray, Co Wicklow in 2011, when he featured in an Irish Times article on the merits and demerits of Kindles and hardcopy books. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times Eoghan Nolan, creator of the Glasnevin Cemetery ‘One Million Dubliners’ poster, has died
Spare Tyres. Painting: Mary Burke Art and the essence of farming
  • Frank McDonald: Johnny Ronan’s docklands towers give ‘two fingers’ to Dublin
  • Dublin’s suburbs are ‘buzzing, thriving’. Well, some of them are

Unthinkable

A tourist bus passes the unfinished basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. ‘I think we need to build the ecological cathedrals of the future, not the old-fashioned medieval kind,’ says writer Roman Krznaric. Photograph: Albert Llop/Anadolu Agency/Getty Your ‘marshmallow brain’ vs your ‘acorn brain’: Breaking the short-term thinking habit

Unthinkable: Acorn brain worries about pensions. Marshmallow brain thinks short-term

‘I think recognizing the wider role luck plays in society is very important,’ says TCD political scientist Peter Stone. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP Creative/Getty The Leaving Cert is not fair. Why not just replace it with a lottery?
‘It’s sobering to consider that in a parallel history the world might have looked more like a planet of the apes.’ File image: Sebastian Willnow/AFP/Getty You’re a large-brained scheming dreamer with a sense of justice: What it means to be human
  • Teaching children to respect all opinions can be problematic
  • Why Covid dissidents need to be understood, not demonised

Heritage

The former Player Wills factory site on South Circular Road in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill 3:43 Protected structure status recommended for Player Wills building

Former Dublin factory part of a 19-storey redevelopment plan

Bear Grylls: ‘Dealing with failure has been the key to any success in my life’. Photograph: Ben Simms/NBC/NBCU Bear Grylls: ‘You don’t need muscles or good looks’
The ESB’s proposal to convert the former Georgian House Museum on the corner of Merrion Square in Dublin into luxury apartments has been opposed by The Irish Georgian Society. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Don’t reopen Georgian museum, says former head of national collection
  • Dramatic Stonehenge discovery boosts ‘Irish’ account of its origins
  • ESB plan to convert museum into luxury apartments criticised by city councillors

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

Labhair Tuarascáil leis an iriseoir agus léiritheoir raidió Sinéad Ní Uallacháin atá ina láithreoir ar an gclár Peig. Peig Sayers: Clú nó míchlú?

Tá go leor ann nach féidir leo cuimhneamh ar Pheig gan ghangaid, gan searbhas agus gan mhagadh

“Is fíor go bhfuil geallúintí an rialtais ag dul i bhfad agus gurb í seo an t-aon uair ar domhan a bhfuil na mílte ag dúil le hinstealladh a fháil...” Comharthaí Dóchais
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Kazuo Ishiguro: His new novel concerns an android of unusual curiosity and perceptiveness, especially in the reading of human emotions. Photograph: Andrew Testa/New York Times Klara and the Sun: a welcome return to form
This country’s weak regulations on media monopolies were exposed when Denis O’Brien added control of Ireland’s biggest newspaper company to his ownership of Ireland’s largest private radio company. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times How will Denis O’Brien’s departure change the Irish media landscape?
A procession of uniformed Cumann na mBan that paraded to Glasnevin Cemetery carrying four biers representing the four executed Irish Republican leaders. Photograph: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images Women and the Irish Revolution: Vital and valuable insights

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1 No holding back: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with Oprah Winfrey. Photograph: Joe Pugliese/Harpo via AP Oprah with Meghan and Harry: One by one the bombshells drop

2 Judge Judy: ‘If you decide to stay too long at the party, your makeup begins to fade.’ Photograph: Sonja Flemming/CBS Judge Judy puts down her gavel – and her $47m pay cheque – after 25 years

3 Sinn Féin: as key figures in the Irish republican movement, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams eventually persuaded the overwhelming majority of republican gunmen to lay down their weapons. Photograph: INM/Getty Roy Greenslade and the IRA: I was his editor. His admission raises hard questions

4 Dervla Kirwan plays Val Ahern, who has had enough of her slimy, philandering husband Denis. But did she kill him? Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like

5 Kazuo Ishiguro: His new novel concerns an android of unusual curiosity and perceptiveness, especially in the reading of human emotions. Photograph: Andrew Testa/New York Times Klara and the Sun: a welcome return to form

6 Perfect shot: the murmuration of starlings over Lough Ennell, in Co Westmeath, on Tuesday evening. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho Murmuration of starlings: How our stunning front-page photograph was taken

7 Moses Farrow (left) with his adoptive parents, Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, and some of his siblings in 1989. Photograph: Ron Galella/RGC via Getty Moses Farrow: ‘I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. The abuse at home reinforced that’

8 Nicolette Robinson and Leslie Odom Jr in Love in the Time of Corona, streaming from Friday on Netflix TV guide: 20 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight

9 Campers at Electric Picnic, Stradbally Co Laois.Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Electric Picnic hopes vaccination programme will allow festival proceed

10 A computer-generated image of how the Waterfront South Central development (right) may look. Image: Visual Lab Johnny Ronan replies to Frank McDonald: Tall buildings must be part of Dublin’s future

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The Music Quiz: What Irish showband did young Rory Gallagher play in? The Music Quiz: What Irish showband did young Rory Gallagher play in?

All things Rory in honour of what would be the Donegal-born guitarist’s 73rd birthday

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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