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Television: It’s all a bit ho-hum so far as Coleen Rooney stands out as most recognised ‘celebrity’

Mary Norton’s story will entertain children while adults can convince themselves of its literary status

The performer and award-winning author discusses why and how he made his first film, Layla, a buoyant new drama concerning a British-Palestinian drag queen

Collaborations between writer and historian Conor McCabe and artist Augustine O’Donoghue include a series of door mats with political messages and a new event called Counter-Culture Nights

Despite the best of intentions and some strong ideas, Goodhart seems to underestimate the extent to which he pushes readers’ buttons

Weirdly, I have no memory of entering this draw

Your guide to the best sport on television

Many were from the vanished tribe of Catholic ‘loyalists’ who saw no contradiction between their faith, desire for Home Rule and loyalty to the British Empire

There’s a burble of excitement at this intimate preview of scenes and songs from the Sherman brothers musical

Mescal and Washington are solid in otherwise second-hand Gladiator II. Plus charmingly festive Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, vibrant doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, and rigorous if cold drama In Camera

November 17th-22th: including I’m a Celebrity; Dune: Prophecy; Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars; and Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem

Vona Groarke reviews new work by Jamie McKendrick; Mary O’Malley; Joseph Woods; Ella Frears

Ignore the right-wing blowhards: awards ceremonies are rarely as politically partisan as they like to pretend

President remembers Limerick actor, best known as one half of D’Unbelievables, as an ‘extraordinary talent’

He never took success for granted. He was an entertainer of immense gifts who always stayed humble, and his humour was uniquely Irish in its warmth, irreverence and wisdom

Hunger and its stylised satiation eats into modern writing in a way that reflects our sizzling, chopped-up existences

Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor

Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940

The indie-rock legend talks Pixies, Olivia Rodrigo, the loss of her parents, and the release of her first solo album, Nobody Loves You More

Sibéal Pounder, author of children’s book Sprouts, on writing for ‘the most important people in the world’, her admiration for Violet Beauregard, and her ability to forensically analyse people

British writer Samantha Harvey on winning of the Booker Prize for Orbital, taking Earth for granted, coping with insomnia and her Irish connections

November 16th-22nd, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Vigorous and critically minded history proves that the shifting and sometimes contradictory ‘social construct’ of Irish America cannot be reduced to one singular identity

Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents

Stories originating from Ireland to Siberia are partnered by illuminating essays of symbolic psychoanalysis