25 films to check out in summer 2025: From Liam Neeson in Naked Gun to Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: Rebirth
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Gabriel Byrne
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
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Teri Hayden obituary: trailblazing agent who guided the careers of some of Ireland’s most successful actors
She intuited that Irish theatre, TV and film was about to expand - though there was little evidence for this at the time
National Lottery plans to move its HQ to new location
Funeral for legendary actors’ agent; CRH chief’s home renovations troubles; Phil Hogan joins Irish lobbying register; a financial blow for the IRFU, and a tough job at RTÉ
Landmark’s Anne Clarke: ‘Every producer, if they’re honest, is a control freak’
From giving modern classics their first Irish productions to nurturing new work from key Irish names, Landmark has had an outsize impact over the past 20 years
Dance First: Finely acted Samuel Beckett biopic undermined by lit-flick cliches
Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings
Fionn O’Shea on being cast as Samuel Beckett: ‘There was a moment of elation followed by crippling anxiety’
In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce
The actor’s mews: Former home of Gabriel Byrne on Herbert Lane for €1.65m
With four bedrooms and two lovely outside spaces, this is a very special city-centre home
Claire Byrne gives Leo Varadkar the upper hand
Radio review: Things get tetchy when she raises his alleged leak of documents
Driving home for Christmas is a trip through time
Journey home can be painful for emigrants but also for those who never left
Breda O’Brien: This is no time to let Irish cinemas die
Is the tentative recovery of movie theatres thanks to blockbusters or a more nuanced audience desire?
Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before wins best Irish film
From best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to know
War of the Worlds: Grouchy Gabriel Byrne and creepy Daisy Edgar Jones get under your skin
TV review: This interpretation of HG Wells’s work is dour and slow, but full of mystery
Iftas 2021: Posthumous award for ‘searing’ Nika McGuigan is the moment of the night
The hit TV adaptation Normal People converts nine of its 15 nominations into Iftas
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Photographic record of Covid-dominated year to be prepared by press photographers
Annual awards ceremony on live stream from Dublin city centre on Friday evening
Nicola Sturgeon: ‘Brexit makes a united Ireland more likely’
‘I firmly believe Scottish independence will happen,’ Scotland’s first minister has said
Mairead McGuinness: They don’t call me ‘Elbows McGuinness’ to my face
‘I’ve always had the view that if I was able to do a job, I should put my name forward’
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival day 5: Dara McAnulty, Gabriel Byrne and John King
Series of online talks featuring Irish Times journalists and guests concludes on Friday
Blindboy Boatclub: ‘I had the choice of being a psychotherapist or a mad bastard’
Mask-wearing podcaster and author is first guest at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival: Everything you need to know
Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri and more to appear at the online festival
‘My waitressing job was paying the bills so I could afford to work at the theatre’
Wild Geese: Pauline Turley is the vice-chair of the Irish Arts Center in New York
Civil servants opposed Mowlam wish to write Famine article, files show
Northern Ireland secretary could detract from Blair statement of regret, officials feared
Irish Times Winter Nights Festival: Nicola Sturgeon, Gabriel Byrne, Dara Ó Briain and Edith Eger
Join us online for five nights of unforgettable debate, discussion, distraction and everything in between
Joe Duffy’s rapping is as shocking as anything on the airwaves this year
Duffy’s unfunny rhymes make Dustin the Turkey sound like Wu-Tang Clan
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’
The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new Ireland
Rerun of the Gathering might just be the tonic for Irish tourism post-Covid
Timing would be very important for a second diaspora-focused tourism jamboree
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’
The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home
Vikings spin-off Valhalla to be filmed for Netflix in Wicklow
On-demand giant commissions new version of TV saga made in Ashford Studios
Mia Wasikowska: I got in trouble for an Irish accent before
Alice in Wonderland made her a star but she prefers to stay out of the limelight
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