Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’
The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands
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‘Incredibly inspiring’: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at Irish premiere of Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell hails actors’ performances in adaptation of her novel
Hamnet review: Five stars for Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s devastating film
In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nods
Paul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominations
Golden Globes 2026: Irish co-stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley nominated for roles in Hamnet
Gary Oldman and Adam Scott among those nominated in TV category
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look
The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics feared
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons on Bugonia: ‘I forget all the time that I won best actor at Cannes’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s careering, unsettling film lets Stone demonstrate her range, as her character tries every trick to win over Plemons’s twitching lunatic
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
Jessie Buckley is unbeatable at the Oscars. Unless this happens
Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actors
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on their new film Hamnet: ‘I only want to make films as brave and as human as this’
Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews
Ruff justice: is Shakespeare being cancelled?
Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert
Miriam Toews: ‘It’s unlike any of the other books that I’ve ever written’
Canadian author talks about her unconventional memoir, growing up in a Mennonite community, and cycling around Belfast in the 1980s
Sinn Féin may reject commemorating the Normans, but there are some suspiciously Saxon names in its ranks
Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history
An Oak Tree at the Young Vic review: Pregnant Jessie Buckley brings extra poignancy to this theatrical wonder
Tim Crouch feeds his delighted guest star her lines in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making
Oscars 2026: Will Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley get a best picture nomination?
It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next year
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
Peter Sarsgaard: ‘I was around all these professional actors – Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne... They all acted pretty crazy’
The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics
Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story review: Was Ireland this dire? It really was
Sinéad O’Shea’s documentary is remarkable, though, for its consideration of an extraordinary life
Edna O’Brien: ‘She could be so queenly and dominating, but then totally wounded by criticism’
With the release of her Edna O’Brien documentary imminent, documentary maker Sinéad O’Shea talks about the late writer’s remarkable and often difficult life
From Paul Mescal to Bad Sisters to Claire Keegan, the green wave keeps rolling
Unfortunately, the lived experience of creatives working in Ireland is often a struggle
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Author Maggie O’Farrell: I had a teacher at school who took the register, called my name and said to me, ‘Are your family in the IRA?’
The novelist Maggie O’Farrell on leaving Ireland, growing up in Britain, life as a child with a stammer and her new book
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
The Cable That Changed the World review: A bit like a double history lecture on a hot day
Television: Even narrator Jessie Buckley sounds as if she’s ready to check out. On a Monday night on RTÉ, this documentary is a bit of a snooze
Bernard Butler: Good Grief – Suede guitarist returns to the fray older, wiser and stronger
The songwriter and producer’s first solo album in 25 years, Good Grief carries a hefty confessional tone missing from his many collaborations over the past 20 years
Jessie Buckley: ‘I grew up in a household where music, writing and expressing yourself was really nurtured’
After a decade of blistering success, the Wicked Little Letters star has had a year off. Next up for the newlywed? Chloé Zhao, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Penélope Cruz
Wicked Little Letters review: Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman swear like dockers in drama about ostracised Irish woman in quiet English town
When anonymous obscene letters are delivered to local notables of a stuffy English town, the finger of blame points at an Irish woman
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley to star in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet
Irish actors will play William Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway
Oscars 2023: What Kerry Condon, Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley, Rihanna and more wore on the champagne carpet
At the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, gold, embellishment and bright colour dominated when it came to dresses
Women Talking: Four stars for Jessie Buckley’s intense, disturbing Oscar-nominated film
Sarah Polley’s movie, which is up for best picture, is set in a Mennonite community whose women are victims of an endless cycle of sexual abuse
SAG awards 2023: The Banshees of Inisherin’s Oscar hopes get a big boost
Colin Farrell shortlisted for best actor as Martin McDonagh’s film lands five nominations
The music of 2022: Our critics verdicts on the best albums and acts of the year
Which band won Best Irish Album? Which music act won Best Irish Song? Will Fontaines D.C. claim victory over Kendrick Lamar? Our critics have made their choices
These could be the most Irish Oscars ever
Donald Clarke: The country’s film actors are enjoying an unprecedented moment of global attention
Mercury prize: Irish Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley joins Harry Styles and Sam Fender as first-time contenders
Buckley was nominated with Bernard Butler for their debut collaborative album, For All Our Days That Tear the Heart
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