The Irish Times

Donald Clarke: The joys of watching it again... and again... and again

There’s enough novelty to last a lifetime, but repeated viewing brings its own comforts

Sat Apr 04 2020 - 05:00

‘My orgasms are blue!’: the condition which makes you see colours

Synaesthesia, a rare neurological condition, causes a merging of senses that are not normally connected

Mon Sept 09 2019 - 06:01

Samuel Beckett rejected as unsuitable for the Nobel prize in 1968

Newly released papers show chairman’s reluctance to give Irish author the award

Fri Jan 11 2019 - 06:00

The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot

Corn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom large

Sat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00

Presumed innocent: a history of adolescent sexuality

From acknowledged reality to hidden taboo, the representation of sexuality in art and culture has a long and difficult history

Sat Feb 03 2018 - 14:46

Blade Runner 2049: intoxicating, brain-melting alienation

Review: Blade Runner 2049 is not without flaws, but it’s a marvel it works as well as it does

Tue Oct 03 2017 - 18:25

Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy, dies aged 91

Hefner died at his Playboy Mansion home from natural causes

Thu Sept 28 2017 - 06:07

O’Sullivan needs to come up with convincing narrative to survive

Inside Politics: Opposition mounts pressure on commissioner as UK prepares for B-Day

Wed Mar 29 2017 - 08:27

‘I’m trying to make these huge questions more tangible and more personal’

Thanks to synaesthesia Lucy McKenna experiences the world differently to most people, and now, following a stint at Cern, she’s trying to explain huge questions in science with art

Thu Mar 02 2017 - 05:00

Una Mullally ... on emojis

*insert deadpan emoji

Sat May 28 2016 - 05:29

Aleksandar Hemon: ‘It’s the end of America. They just don’t know it yet’

Interview: The Bosnian-American writer’s new novel is a comedy with tragedy at its heart: the main characters have all been destroyed by state-sponsored conflicts

Tue Nov 03 2015 - 06:00

Baiting the censor: 10 books they tried to suppress

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

Mon Sept 29 2014 - 01:00