Meet the Mayo jewellery maker whose fans include Saoirse Ronan, Maya Hawke and Julianne Moore
Nigel O’Reilly and other Irish jewellers on the western seaboard find much to inspire in the natural world around them
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Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’
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
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama
Steve McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart is a boy’s own adventure
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
From Eddie Redmayne in The Day of the Jackal to Saoirse Ronan reading the poetry of Christy Brown
We’re meant to bask in Saoirse Ronan’s feminist triumph, but I find it all a bit nauseating
An actor’s entire job is to occupy the mind and body of someone else, not to be interesting themselves
Saoirse Ronan delivers a stone-cold truth about women’s safety that stuns Paul Mescal and fellow actors
Graham Norton’s male guests found self-defence hilarious. Of course it was all just a joke, but this tiny little sofa vignette reflects women’s reality
What Gerry Adams really said to David Trimble in the loo during peace talks
Drama bigs up Adams-Trimble encounter; Saoirse Ronan gets a knock-back; buskers object to Grafton Street development; and Sabina Higgins takes on a woolly role
Bad Sisters actor Eva Birthistle: I’d just given birth, felt like I’d been murdered, and the midwife says ‘your husband did so well’
For the Irish actor, whose on-screen roles include Brooklyn and Bad Sisters, making the move to go behind the camera is a proud, slightly nerve-racking moment with her new film Kathleen Is Here
Blitz first look: Could Saoirse Ronan be on track for a double Oscar nomination with her new film?
In Steve McQueen’s movie, the Irish star plays a distraught mother during the Luftwaffe’s raids on London during the second World War
I’m an expert in headlines that start with ‘I’m an expert’. Here’s why they’re everywhere
We’re all just trying to find needles of genuine authority in the haystacks of charlatanism. Aren’t we?
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan gives a forceful performance as an alcoholic in white-knuckle recovery
There is much to recommend this addiction dram directed by Nora Fingscheidt and co-produced by Ronan, who also excels in her first present-day film role in nearly a decade
Saoirse Ronan: ‘Going out and getting wrecked ... I’m careful about when and where I do that’
The 30-year-old star has already navigated nearly 20 years in the film industry. As The Outrun arrives, she talks about the challenges and what comes next
Autumn culture preview 2024: The biggest films, TV shows, books, music, theatre and exhibitions to catch
From Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer to Nick Cave at 3Arena and Brian Maguire at the Hugh Lane
Saoirse Ronan in Dublin: ‘I always like being able to come home and share whatever I’ve been working on’
Actor takes to the red carpet at the Light House cinema for Irish premiere of Nora Fingscheidt’s latest film, The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan wants to rewrite the script for new Cork home
Paddy McKillen’s wine embarks on a voyage to America; bread giants have a word about a word; while the National Gallery of Ireland is unsure about language requirements
Colm Tóibín: ‘Writing a sequel to Brooklyn? The risk is cheapness’
The writer on finding the confidence to trace the journey of his character Eilis in follow-up novel Long Island
Patrick Freyne: 12 reasons why it hasn’t always been cool to be Irish - including Murder, She Wrote and Batman
Young Irish people are growing up with an unreasonable sense of confidence. St Patrick’s weekend is an ideal chance to correct the record
Saoirse Ronan says she was meant to be ‘a weird Barbie’ in Greta Gerwig’s film
Actor ‘gutted’ to miss out on role in hugely successful film
Ayo Edebiri, we’re proud to call you Irish. It makes a nice change from Britwashing
Donald Clarke: Didn’t realise the Bear and Bottoms star is from the Emerald Isle? Sure she’s from Inisherin
50 films to see in 2024: From All of Us Strangers to Gladiator 2
Against all odds – and the best efforts of studio executives – 2024 is going to be a fantastic year for cinema
Johnny Jewel: ‘The first David Lynch film I saw was Elephant Man. I cried for over a week’
Before performing in Dublin, the producer, musician and artist Johnny Jewel explains why The Weeknd is a fine actor, outlines his ‘visual approach’ to making music and debunks myths surrounding the Chromatics album that never happened
Foe review: Saoirse Ronan is gimlet-eyed in her realism. Paul Mescal is stratospherically anguished
Intermittently engaging sci-fi abounds with ideas but feels stagey
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, together at last! They’ve collided, anyhow
Ireland’s two most celebrated young actors appear on film together for the first time in Foe, Garth Davis’s cerebral sci-fi drama
Kerrygold’s masterclass in modern marketing: An all expenses paid trip for butter influencers
Emer McLysaght: Thanks to the home-grown brand for making me fall in love with Ireland through the eyes of wholesome content creators
Saoirse Ronan: ‘In Ireland there was such ownership over women, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially’
The four-time Oscar nominee from Ireland says she does not take for granted ‘the incredible stock’ she comes from
Making Brooklyn in Enniscorthy: ‘Saoirse Ronan was lovely. She had a cup of tea in my kitchen’
While the Irish scenes in the novel are set in Enniscorthy, it is extremely rare that the movie of a novel will be filmed in the actual streets and buildings depicted in the original story, as happened with Brooklyn
Photo collection handed over to the National Library of Ireland a ‘who’s who of Irish acting talent’
Liam Bluett has been collecting autographed photographs of actors such as Liam Neeson, Maureen O’Hara and Saoirse Ronan since he was a schoolboy working in Shannon Airport in 1964
Ryan Tubridy’s top Late, Late moments: F-Bomb, Hozier’s Parting Glass, Francis Brennan’s duvet difficulties
Love him or loathe him, Tubs has his share of headline-grabbing moments
These could be the most Irish Oscars ever
Donald Clarke: The country’s film actors are enjoying an unprecedented moment of global attention
‘I threw up in front of two Kardashians. I don’t think this is a big memory for them. Only for me’
Greta Gerwig tells Maureen Dowd about making Barbie, working in front of and behind the camera and collaborating with her partner, Noah Baumbach
See How They Run: Saoirse Ronan gives a stand-out performance using her own accent
Agatha Christie-style comic whodunit is at least as enjoyable as Knives Out
How Clare Daly and Mick Wallace became stars of authoritarian state media
A new Irish Times investigation shows the MEPs’ outsized profile in regime-controlled media
Oscars 2022: Can Jessie Buckley win an award before Saoirse Ronan?
Kerry woman Jessie Buckley has been nominated for best supporting actress
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