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Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she and her mother Gisèle rebuilt their lives, are also due out
Ranked: The 15 greatest Irish moments at the Oscars
From Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker winning acting awards for My Left Foot to the Academy singing Happy Birthday to James Martin in 2023
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out
Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards
Making The Ballroom of Romance in Co Mayo: ‘Even passing it today, I still think I can hear the music in it’
In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made and assesses the legacy they left behind
Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
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Graham Norton’s Holding is a satisfying murder mystery – but it’s a crime against Cork accents
TV review: Did Charlene McKenna base her accent on Roy Keane’s Mick McCarthy tirade?
Charlene McKenna: ‘I spent lockdown in an Irish Rugby fleece covered in paint and dust’
The actor converted outbuilding on parent’s farm into a home and had a tiny 6-person wedding
Home: Part One – Abbey stream amplifies the voices of silenced mother and baby home survivors
Theatre review: Powerful, earth-shifting testimonies are solemnly read as scripts
Lockdown was hard, but it kept us closer to each other than we’ve ever been
There is nothing we wouldn’t do for our children, but there are some things we just can’t do
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
My Left Foot at 30: Its Oscar success was due to Weinstein
Released in April 1989, it changed everything for Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Sheridan
This man sent a message-in-a-bottle in 1963 - the mystery has finally been solved
Bottle found on Alaskan shore is traced to a cousin of Oscar-winning actor Brenda Fricker
We believe in one Gaybo, the father, the almighty, maker of TV heaven on Earth
RTÉ marks Gay Byrne’s 60 years in broadcasting with highlights from ‘The Meaning of Life’
Seven of the best TV shows to watch this week
Anthony Hopkins plays Lear, Gay Byrne takes a trip down memory lane and Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope comes to a friendship-wrecking close
Harvey Weinstein is a ‘monster,’ says Abrahamson
Irish film director says he hopes revelations will leave other abusers ‘quaking’
Talking statues: Gabriel Byrne and Brenda Fricker bring Dublin landmarks to life
A slew of famous voices are bringing 10 of Dublin’s best-known monuments alive
A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes
From ‘Dress suitably, and buy a revolver’ and 'A terrible beauty' to 'We all partied'
And the Oscar goes to . . . Ireland
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
Oscars success has been a long time coming for the Irish film industry
Nominations represent a return on long-term investment in a generation of local talent
Living alone is less the exception, more the rule
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?
The Iftas bid to avoid another car crash
After last year’s fiasco, the Irish film and TV industry is back to nervously applaud itself
Radio: Brendan O’Connor misplaces his broadcaster’s instincts
Review: ‘The John Murray Show’, ‘The Last Word’, ‘Sunday With Miriam’
Ireland’s intimate association with the Oscars’ statuette
Irish involvement in Academy Awards stems from Dubliner who designed the statuette
Future of Irish Film and Television Academy Awards unclear
Irish Film Board confirms it has no firm plans to fund the Iftas
Galway gears up for international arts festival and Fringe festival
Congregational hall a new ‘playhouse’ venue for Fringe festival
Romance endures in Leitrim ballroom
Hall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attraction
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination
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 very Irish tale of Ralph Lauren’s niece in court
The arrest of Jenny Lauren in Ireland has a US romcom feel about it
Aidan: make a proper Charlie of yourself
RTÉ’s TV drama about Charles Haughey, starring Aidan Gillen as the late taoiseach, will be worth watching. Why did it take so long?
2,000 participants take part in week-long drama festival
Skills of young people tested in poetry recital, improvisation, drama, mime and storytelling
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