This year Ireland received a record number of nominations for the Oscars. Irish Times Data examines Ireland’s association with the world’s most famous statuette

Nominations represent a return on long-term investment in a generation of local talent

All the Lonely People: It can be lonely being single, sure, but is there a way to refashion solitude less as misfortune and more a reluctance to settle for second-best?

After last year’s fiasco, the Irish film and TV industry is back to nervously applaud itself

Review: ‘The John Murray Show’, ‘The Last Word’, ‘Sunday With Miriam’

Irish involvement in Academy Awards stems from Dubliner who designed the statuette

Irish Film Board confirms it has no firm plans to fund the Iftas

Congregational hall a new ‘playhouse’ venue for Fringe festival

Hall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attraction

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

The arrest of Jenny Lauren in Ireland has a US romcom feel about it

RTÉ’s TV drama about Charles Haughey, starring Aidan Gillen as the late taoiseach, will be worth watching. Why did it take so long?

Skills of young people tested in poetry recital, improvisation, drama, mime and storytelling

Cllr Mannix Flynn maintains it is simply too soon given the ongoing nature of abuse allegations and investigations