Books‘The best place to see Edna O’Brien was at Mass’: the banned and burned author’s complex relationship with Ireland‘You have to be dead in Ireland to be a hero. History has shown us that; there are no living martyrs’ - O’Brien’s nephewBy Andrew FitzmauriceSat Aug 03 2024 - 06:00
Subscriber OnlyLaura Whitmore: ‘It’s all coming out now, the stuff I tried to speak about eight years ago’The actor and TV presenter had a bruising time on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016. She talks about victim-shaming, gaslighting and life in the public eyeBy Róisín IngleSat Aug 03 2024 - 05:30
Subscriber OnlyPaschal Donohoe on The Centre Must Hold, edited by Yair Zivan, and Left Behind by Paul CollierTwo books attempt to diagnose our discontents and offer advice for a better and safer world
Subscriber OnlyAuthor Charlotte Mendelson: ‘There’s nothing more fascinating than other people’s marriages, particularly when they start to go wrong.’The author on her ‘darkest, queerest novel yet’, what makes Iris Murdoch special and the words she would abolish
CultureGovernment’s refusal to scrap the licence fee shows a depressingly limited understanding of the media landscapeThe debate needs to move on from the best way to fund a public-service broadcaster to the best way to fund public-service content
For the sake of your mental health, stop trying to have an opinion on everything all the timeUnthinkable: People are panicking, theorising and condemning on social media in every imaginable direction. But it’s all right not to have a view on everything all the time. In fact, it’s healthyBy Laura Kennedy
‘Did they make you park feckin’ ages away?’ All Together Now 2024 begins with the battle for the best camping spotsDespite black clouds overhead, and some changes to the line-up, the atmosphere remains joyous as the Co Waterford music festival startsBy Kate Brayden
All Together Now music festival 2024: Stage line-ups and times, ticket information, how to get there and moreUpdated: Everything you need to know about the ATN festival at Curraghmore Estate from August 1st-4th
Jorja Smith at All Together Now: ‘It’s my first time in Waterford ... and this feels like I’m at a party’ The two-time Brit Award winner, one of the biggest names to come out of UK soul and R&B, finally returns to Ireland’s stages after far too long an absenceBy Kate Brayden
James Vincent McMorrow at All Together Now: The Dublin artist’s falsetto vocals and guitar-led tracks deliver a powerful performanceThe singer-songwriter delivers brooding new tunes and back catalogue favourites as the sun sets in Waterford on Friday nightBy Kate Brayden
Childish Gambino: Bando Stone and the New World review – Bold, brash and self-indulgent By Lauren Murphy
Beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves review – Superior pop from one of Gen Z’s most interesting stars By Tony Clayton-Lea
Kneecap movie is Irish submission for best international film at OscarsFictionalised biopic of Belfast rap trio Kneecap hopes to follow An Cailín Ciúin to Academy AwardsBy Donald Clarke
Saipan: Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan to star as Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in film about infamous falling outControversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World CupBy Donald Clarke
Kensuke’s Kingdom: Delightful family entertainment featuring Cillian Murphy in Michael Morpurgo’s swashbuckling adventure By Tara Brady
Janet Planet: Annie Baker’s captivating feature debut is a fine-grained study of an admirable parent and her singular daughter By Donald Clarke
‘The best place to see Edna O’Brien was at Mass’: the banned and burned author’s complex relationship with Ireland‘You have to be dead in Ireland to be a hero. History has shown us that; there are no living martyrs’ - O’Brien’s nephewBy Andrew Fitzmaurice
Author Charlotte Mendelson: ‘There’s nothing more fascinating than other people’s marriages, particularly when they start to go wrong.’The author on her ‘darkest, queerest novel yet’, what makes Iris Murdoch special and the words she would abolishBy Martin Doyle
Laura Whitmore: ‘It’s all coming out now, the stuff I tried to speak about eight years ago’The actor and TV presenter had a bruising time on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016. She talks about victim-shaming, gaslighting and life in the public eyeBy Róisín Ingle
Radio review: Newstalk’s Ciara Kelly left floundering as cohost Shane Coleman sidesteps Olympics dutyRadio: Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman host awkward chats and gratuitous squabbles as Fiachna Ó Braonáin signs off with feelingBy Mick Heaney
Interview with the Vampire review: Gripping, grotesque and gorily watchable funTelevision: BBC’s adaptation of Anne Rice novel does well to put daylight between itself and Neil Jordan’s 1994 caper by slowing the pulse of the storyBy Ed Power
Batman: Caped Crusader review – Noirish reboot stays true to moody, brooding rootsTelevision review: This is old-school Batman set in a 1940s-inspired world and it is fantasticBy Ed Power
London play paused after theatregoers feel faint during abortion sceneThe Years is based on the autobiography by French Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux
Anything to Declare review: Dylan Quinn’s impressive project gives four artistic impressions of the Border In the Cavan village of Swanlinbar, the dancer is joined by film-maker Róisín Loughrey and composers Andy Garbi and Rose ConnellyBy Michael Seaver
Anna Boghiguian: Period of Change – Politically charged, historically freightedReview: The room-sized chess game at the heart of Anna Boghiguian’s Dublin show is a perfect setting for one of the artist’s politicohistorical narrativesBy Tom Lordan
Artist Donald Teskey: ‘When teacher praised my drawing, it was the first time I was aware of myself as a person’The winner of the 2024 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Art Award shows how art, nature, medicine and wellbeing intertwineBy Gemma Tipton