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Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’
- Books
- November 14, 2020, 05:00
In his new memoir, Walking with Ghosts, the actor tells of his struggle with fame and of the sexual abuse he endured while training for the priesth(...)

Netflix’s Rebecca: The new Mrs de Winter isn’t a patch on the first one
- Film
- October 21, 2020, 05:00
There is at least one promising moment (briefly reprised) in Ben Wheatley’s unengaging disinterment of Daphne du Maurier’s most durable melodrama. As (...)

Ethel Cashman obituary: ‘A wonderful Mammy with a passion for cinema’
- People
- June 25, 2020, 11:30
This article is one of a series about people who have died with coronavirus in Ireland and among the diaspora. Read more at irishtimes.com/covid-19-li(...)

Trusting the advice of experts and politicians amid this pandemic
- Europe
- May 25, 2020, 17:33
P J O’Rourke is one of those writers whose books have never quite lived up to their titles. But who cares? You’ve got to love anything named Holidays (...)

Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar
- Film
- February 6, 2020
Kirk Douglas Born: December 9th, 1916 Died: February 5th, 2020 Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age, whose(...)

Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
- Film
- January 25, 2020, 05:00
Ahrr, maties! It’s mid-May at the Cannes film festival and the Mediterranean has put on a show for The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers’s briny follow-up to (...)

Jack L: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- January 4, 2020, 05:00
Current favourite book I’m in the middle of The Big Yaroo by Patrick McCabe, his follow-up to The Butcher Boy. It’s about Francie Brady’s continuing (...)

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
- Culture
- June 15, 2019, 16:49
Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world’s greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a stat(...)

Albert Finney obituary: Charismatic actor who never gave in to the establishment
- People
- February 8, 2019, 17:01
Albert Finney Born: May 9th, 1936 Died: February 7th, 2019 There were endless revelatory moments in British cinema and theatre as the 1950s fizzed in(...)

Sale of Belfast’s Havelock House marks end of broadcasting history
- Media & Marketing
- September 20, 2018, 04:39
It was once a hemstitching warehouse, and later a wartime billet for American soldiers stationed in the North. But Belfast’s Havelock House, a labyrin(...)