Brenda Fricker

Ranked: The 15 greatest Irish moments at the Oscars

From Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker winning acting awards for My Left Foot to the Academy singing Happy Birthday to James Martin in 2023

Sun Mar 10 2024 - 05:00

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out

Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards

Thu Mar 07 2024 - 06:00

Making The Ballroom of Romance in Co Mayo: ‘Even passing it today, I still think I can hear the music in it’

In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made and assesses the legacy they left behind

Sun Jul 23 2023 - 06:00

Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland

Thu Mar 24 2022 - 16:54

Graham Norton’s Holding is a satisfying murder mystery – but it’s a crime against Cork accents

TV review: Did Charlene McKenna base her accent on Roy Keane’s Mick McCarthy tirade?

Mon Mar 14 2022 - 22:00

Charlene McKenna: ‘I spent lockdown in an Irish Rugby fleece covered in paint and dust’

The actor converted outbuilding on parent’s farm into a home and had a tiny 6-person wedding

Sat Dec 11 2021 - 06:00

Home: Part One – Abbey stream amplifies the voices of silenced mother and baby home survivors

Theatre review: Powerful, earth-shifting testimonies are solemnly read as scripts

Thu Mar 18 2021 - 12:20

Lockdown was hard, but it kept us closer to each other than we’ve ever been

There is nothing we wouldn’t do for our children, but there are some things we just can’t do

Mon Nov 30 2020 - 06:01

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Sat May 02 2020 - 05:00

My Left Foot at 30: Its Oscar success was due to Weinstein

Released in April 1989, it changed everything for Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Sheridan

Mon Apr 08 2019 - 06:00

This man sent a message-in-a-bottle in 1963 - the mystery has finally been solved

Bottle found on Alaskan shore is traced to a cousin of Oscar-winning actor Brenda Fricker

Thu Aug 02 2018 - 16:14

We believe in one Gaybo, the father, the almighty, maker of TV heaven on Earth

RTÉ marks Gay Byrne’s 60 years in broadcasting with highlights from ‘The Meaning of Life’

Wed May 30 2018 - 22:40

Seven of the best TV shows to watch this week

Anthony Hopkins plays Lear, Gay Byrne takes a trip down memory lane and Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope comes to a friendship-wrecking close

Sun May 27 2018 - 06:00

Did you know there was an unused theatre under Busáras?

The lost theatres of Dublin revealed

Wed Nov 15 2017 - 05:00

Harvey Weinstein is a ‘monster,’ says Abrahamson

Irish film director says he hopes revelations will leave other abusers ‘quaking’

Fri Oct 13 2017 - 09:20

Talking statues: Gabriel Byrne and Brenda Fricker bring Dublin landmarks to life

A slew of famous voices are bringing 10 of Dublin’s best-known monuments alive

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 10:15

A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes

From ‘Dress suitably, and buy a revolver’ and 'A terrible beauty' to 'We all partied'

Sat Mar 11 2017 - 05:08

And the Oscar goes to . . . Ireland

This year Ireland received a record number of nominations for the Oscars. Irish Times Data examines Ireland’s association with the world’s most famous statuette

Thu Feb 25 2016 - 17:05

Oscars success has been a long time coming for the Irish film industry

Nominations represent a return on long-term investment in a generation of local talent

Fri Jan 15 2016 - 10:00

Living alone is less the exception, more the rule

All the Lonely People: It can be lonely being single, sure, but is there a way to refashion solitude less as misfortune and more a reluctance to settle for second-best?

Mon Sept 07 2015 - 06:00

The Iftas bid to avoid another car crash

After last year’s fiasco, the Irish film and TV industry is back to nervously applaud itself

Thu May 21 2015 - 01:45

Radio: Brendan O’Connor misplaces his broadcaster’s instincts

Review: ‘The John Murray Show’, ‘The Last Word’, ‘Sunday With Miriam’

Sat Mar 28 2015 - 04:00

Ireland’s intimate association with the Oscars’ statuette

Irish involvement in Academy Awards stems from Dubliner who designed the statuette

Sat Feb 21 2015 - 01:00

Future of Irish Film and Television Academy Awards unclear

Irish Film Board confirms it has no firm plans to fund the Iftas

Wed Jan 14 2015 - 20:09

Galway gears up for international arts festival and Fringe festival

Congregational hall a new ‘playhouse’ venue for Fringe festival

Sat Jul 12 2014 - 09:34

Romance endures in Leitrim ballroom

Hall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attraction

Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00

Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

Fri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00

ALong Way from Home

Fri Mar 07 2014 - 00:00

The very Irish tale of Ralph Lauren’s niece in court

The arrest of Jenny Lauren in Ireland has a US romcom feel about it

Tue Jan 07 2014 - 19:55

Aidan: make a proper Charlie of yourself

RTÉ’s TV drama about Charles Haughey, starring Aidan Gillen as the late taoiseach, will be worth watching. Why did it take so long?

Sat Oct 12 2013 - 01:00

2,000 participants take part in week-long drama festival

Skills of young people tested in poetry recital, improvisation, drama, mime and storytelling

Mon May 20 2013 - 01:00

Memorial for survivors of institutional abuse at Garden of Remembrance gets planning permission

Cllr Mannix Flynn maintains it is simply too soon given the ongoing nature of abuse allegations and investigations

Fri May 17 2013 - 01:00