Not caring about exams was teenage me’s bluntest form of rebellion. My kids are different
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John Carney
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NCH show is a chance for Hansard and Irglová to remember old times and reclaim lost ground
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Richard Curtis thinks so, and the melancholic, wry and character-driven comedy has already developed a cult following
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Hollywood’s serial chopping and changing of franchise movie titles shows the studios will go to any lenghts to Anything to grab audiences’ attention
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Oscars 2023 shortlist: Irish film Flora and Son among the 15 contenders for original song
Irish production Poor Things, by Yorgos Lanthimos, nominated in three categories
How can Eve Hewson play a working-class single mother? ‘We decided to completely stay away from social realism’
John Carney, the director of Flora and Son, on creating a universe for his new film, an urban musical in the winning style of Once and Sing Street
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast wins no Screen Actors Guild award in ceremony of upsets
Irish actor Ferdia Walsh-Peelo among the award-winning cast for Coda
Yours for €13.25m: Ireland’s 10 top property sales of 2021, inside and outside Dublin
More than 800 sales of €1m or more were recorded this year, most notably of Lissadell
Cosgrave could be compelled to enter arbitration by US court
Seen & Heard: Web Summit founder’s legal battle; and a row over Irish whiskey
Kit Harington pulls off a surprisingly convincing Dublin accent
TV: Modern Love’s second season features two stories with a cast of familiar Irish faces
Amazon Prime Video: Five of the best new shows and films to watch in August
Including Nine Perfect Strangers, Modern Love season 2 and Kevin Can Go F**k Himself
Profit at Glen Hansard’s firm falls 70% due to Covid impact
Musician’s company was sitting on accumulated profit of €1.328m at end of November
50 people to watch in 2021: The best young talent in Ireland
The hottest talent in politics, fashion, food, sport, activism, culture, tech and entrepreneurship
Olivia Cooke: ‘Colm Meaney does everything with a wink and it’s so delicious’
The Manchester actor on making the leap to Hollywood, and starring in new Irish-set film Pixie
Delaware launches Covid app based on Irish developer Nearform’s technology
More US states are set to follow in the near future
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Jesse Eisenberg’s Irish film: ‘It’s about the desperation of wanting to buy a house’
Far from unlikeable, the star of horror Vivarium is a refreshingly honest interviewee
Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviews
Performances praised in film about abused woman caught up in the Irish housing crisis
The New York Times went to see Sing Street, the musical. Here’s what it thought
Brenock O’Connor and Zara Devlin star in the new stage version of the hit Irish film
Irish woman in New York: It’s a bit like getting to travel the world with a subway card
Working Abroad Q&A: Every single Irish person I’ve encountered here seem to just be excelling at whatever it is they’re doing
Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
Woman took fatal overdose less than an hour after being discharged
Hollie Gilson (26), who died following a series of seizures after ingesting toxic levels of painkillers, had a history of attempted suicide
Seána Kerslake: ‘The red carpet is not my favourite place’
The Tallaght actor might have to get used to it, as her star quality shines in The Hole in the Ground
Sundance Film Festival welcomes ‘a sinister Irish film that really digs its claws in’
The Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland hailed as a ‘true-life horror movie’
Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’
The Frames frontman is in danger of becoming an elder statesman
Galway Film Fleadh: ‘The Dig’ wins prize for best film
‘Katie’ - picture charting rise of boxer Katie Taylor - wins best Irish documentary award
The reel Dublin: Best movies about the capital city
Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’
Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’
Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel
Priced out of Rathgar? Consider Churchtown
Though its centre lacks a village buzz, this leafy neighbourhood has plenty of new homes coming on stream
‘I want to understand the anger in the world’
John Tiffany is the genial man behind the Abbey’s ‘Let the Right One In’, is also the most sought-after director in the world
Dublin International Film Festival reverses deficit
Festival overcomes slide in sponsorship income and box office receipts to record a €50,129 surplus in 2016
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