‘I am thrilled’: Cillian Murphy’s new film to have its European premiere in Cork
The Oscar winner’s new film Steve, a Netflix production, is adapted Max Porter’s best-selling novel Shy
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Druid at 50: Joe O’Shaughnessy’s photographic history of the Galway theatre company
An exhibition in Galway charts the company’s remarkable evolution since being founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally in 1975
Eileen Walsh: Women actors ‘are like avocados. You’re nearly ready, nearly ready - then you’re ripe, then you’ve gone off’
The Cork actor, who has returned to live in Ireland after 30 years, on ageing, working with Cillian Murphy, and her upcoming role in a 24-hour play with 100 unknown men
Brianna Parkins: I envy Irish childhoods and the special confidence Irish children seem to have
Like many emigrants, we want our kids to be Irish but worry Ireland won’t be able to support them
‘I always had an affinity with Wolfe Tone. Maybe because I was told I wasn’t Irish’
Kwaku Fortune’s new play, The Black Wolfe Tone, has just opened in New York. It’s a very personal story for the actor and writer
Harry Potter TV show: HBO confirms casting of Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall and more
John Lithgow, Janet McTeer and Paapa Essiedu confirmed for roles amid rumours that Cillian Murphy is being considered to play Voldemort
The Murder Capital: ‘Nick Cave listened to our whole album and was sitting there telling us his favourite tunes’
The Irish indie band on toxic nationalism, rebel songs and how Dublin’s Bimm Music Institute helped shape their outlook
Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Iftas: Small Things Like These beats Kneecap to win best film award
Cillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongs
Oscar nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez breaks record with 13 nods as Kneecap loses out
Disappointment as Kneecap misses out and no Irish actors are nominated for an award
Ireland’s new must-see tourist sites for fans of film and fiction: From Sally Rooney’s novels to Cillian Murphy’s movies
An unexpected boon of Ireland’s cultural success is that its less well-known locations are suddenly on the tourist trail
Kneecap film and Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These lead Ifta nominations
Irish Film and Television Academy awards: Say Nothing and Bad Sisters among other nominees
The Music Quiz: Cillian Murphy has directed a music video for which British act?
Plus: David Gray’s new album is named after a short story collection by which Canadian writer?
Bafta longlists 2025: Kneecap in running for seven awards as Saoirse Ronan named on best actress list
Portia A Buckley’s Irish drama Clodagh is one of the 10 titles listed for best British short film
What were the most-read stories on irishtimes.com in 2024?
Crime, emigration, a busy political calendar and the year of the live blog
The Oscars aren’t fair. Just look at what’s happening to Cillian Murphy
The actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
Golden Globe nominations 2025: Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott get nods but Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan miss out
After Irish actors and films had a blockbuster 2023, hope this year mainly rests on Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun and Blitz
Oprah Winfrey discusses Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These: ‘I had never heard of the Magdalene laundries’
Winfrey chose Keegan’s novella for the first instalment of her new YouTube series The Oprah Podcast
The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s emotional love-ins take publicity to another level
The Wicked stars’ sentimental gush lachrymose interviews have surely helped drive the film to an enormous opening in US cinemas
Cillian Murphy’s view of Ireland in the 1980s as ‘the dark ages’ misses the point
Small Things Like These raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star
Actor Cillian Murphy and artist wife Yvonne McGuinness buy historic Dingle cinema
Couple say they will reopen Phoenix cinema where actor went to see films as a young boy while on holiday in Co Kerry
I went to the cinema to see Small Things Like These. By the time I emerged I had concluded the film was crap
The fact is the film was beautiful, earnest, poetic and sublime. But that’s not what I saw in the moment
Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
Evocative Small Things Like These property could become cosy home, seeking €149,000
New Ross townhouse with shopfront has been in the Walsh family for more than a century
Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Cillian Murphy probably didn’t expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Where is our hot moral indignation when it comes to the fathers of the babies found at Tuam?
Small Things Like These misses an essential truth about Catholic Ireland
Actor Kate Gilmore: ‘I look at myself – no mortgage, my car is falling apart, I have no money in the bank’
Irish actor Kate Gilmore has taken on what might be her greatest challenge yet: performing alone on stage in Disco Pigs, creator Enda Walsh’s experimental new play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin
Small Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New Ross
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
Barry Keoghan to star alongside Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders film
Dublin actor will take on an undisclosed role in Steven Knight’s Birmingham-based period drama
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