In My Own Words review: Billy Connolly retains his twinkle in affecting and celebratory documentary
Television: Scottish comedian is both emotional and phlegmatic as he looks back on his life and career
Billy Connolly
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September 1st-6th: From Dermot Bannon’s cosy abodes to Billy Connolly’s look back at his life
A rambling comedian, a dark memoir of motherhood, and a novel about Leonard Cohen
Reviews in brief of Billy Connolly, Phyl Herbert and Jeffrey Lewis
Big Banana Feet: ‘Lost’ film of Billy Connolly’s 1973 tour of Ireland is a fine tribute to the fearless comedian
Thirty weapons were confiscated from the audience arriving for Connolly’s 1973 Belfast show, but you’d never know it from his joyful performance
If Biden or Trump has to pull out of the election due to incapacity, what’s plan B?
What happens if one of the candidates suffers misadventure between now and the US election?
Billy Connolly: Rambling Man – Memorable journeys that provide plenty of belly laughs
The warmth and humour of the comedian’s hyperactive brain more than make up for the book’s brevity
Billy Connolly: Old age is a weird and nasty surprise. I don’t know if we should tell people about it
In his most intimate interview yet, by his wife Pamela Stephenson Connolly, the comedian talks about living with Parkinson’s, the secret of ageing and the changing nature of comedy
The Frost Report writer Barry Cryer dies aged 86
‘Encyclopaedia of humour’ wrote for The Two Ronnies and Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly: ‘I’ve been scared my whole life’
The comedian recalls his early years in an exclusive extract from his new autobiography
Pat Egan: ‘I’m not at the coalface anymore... and I wouldn’t want to be’
The veteran music promoter has worked with Billy Connolly, Bob Marley and Lou Reed
Keith Duggan: Time for Plan C as Proposal B is just plain bonkers
Sideline Cut: Delegates will vote on worst collective idea since governmental tax on children’s shoes
Billy Connolly on Parkinson’s: The challenges of my disease are getting worse
Comedian makes light of condition as he collects Edinburgh lifetime achievement award
‘Finally,’ I thought, ‘an erotic drama that makes sense to me.’ It so doesn’t
Patrick Freyne: I live in hope that there’s a cameo from the real Billy Connolly
Miriam Lord: Air Miles Murphy's EU efforts fall back to Earth
This week saw high-spirited dispatches from Gerry Adams and another twist in swing-gate
Writing memoir ‘up there’ with Phil Coulter’s ‘many professional challenges’
History has proven that Ireland’s Call ‘has ticked the box it was supposed to tick’
TV View: After Swiss defeat it’s time to light the candles folks
Familiar foes now stand between Ireland and a place in the Euro 2020 finals
Phil Coulter: ‘Music saved my sanity... and my life’
The ‘anthem’ writer and hitmaker on his Derry childhood, two marriages and life in music
U2’s first ever press release pops up in monster memorabilia sale
1978 photo and poster got group its first gig but didn’t sell enough tickets for second
JP Donleavy’s vast archive left to the National Library of Ireland
Treasures include first draft of The Ginger Man with Brendan Behan’s unsolicited edits
Brendan Grace: His big break came when he gave the gig of his life for Frank Sinatra
Grace was a pioneer in Ireland, writing and performing his own comedy as a headline act
Billy Connolly is helping others by talking about Parkinson’s disease
Big Yin’s forthright attitude about his condition in keeping with his attitude to life
Andy Murray pushed himself to the outer limits of his endurance
He should be remembered for draining the last drop of his talent in pursuit of victory
Billy Connolly: ‘Not dying, not slipping away. Maybe I should have phrased it better’
The comedian said he felt ‘near the end’ in TV programme about his health battles – but a tweet said ‘sorry if I depressed you’
Billy Connolly says he is ‘near the end’ as he speaks about his Parkinson’s
Comedian opens up about how he feels his life is ‘slipping away’ in new programme
Billy Connolly announces his retirement from live performance
The comedian says his ill-health has been overstated but his touring days are over
In a Word ... Congeniality
My destiny was writ. I was to be stuck for half an hour making turgid conversation
This Album Changed My Life: Shel Silverstein - A Light In The Attic (1981)
Singer-songwriter Rhob Cunningham on an album of musical poems
Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books
‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’
Finbar Furey: When we walked in, people went ‘What in the name of Jaysus is this!’
Finbar Furey on growing up in `Ballyer', appearing on Top of the Pops and how the Beatles wanted his uileann pipes
Dermot Morgan: ‘He would be livid that the same issues still bedevil Ireland’
Don Morgan on the life and legacy of his father, who died 20 years ago today
JP Donleavy obituary: acclaimed author of ‘a bawled-out comic song of sex’
The Westmeath resident and son of Irish parents felt no sentiment towards Ireland
Extraordinarily ordinary Andy Murray eyes world top spot
Tennis champion from Dunblane has altered our perspective, but without losing his own
Divine Indian essence
A year after the end of her marriage, the winner of the 2015 Irish Times travel writer competition, Ruth Petherick, finds enduring love in mother India.
Finbar Furey: ‘I’m winding down the clock’
Furey is back on the road after a period of grieving for his brother, and an injury that could have put him out of business as a piper. Catch him while you can
Deer to my heart: the joys of making a Christmas jumper
At Pine Forest Art Centre in Dublin, even Grinches can learn how to fashion festive jumpers to their own taste and stand out from the crowd of shop-bought jumpers
Billy Connolly: he's not your average 71-year-old
The comedian was diagnosed with prostate cancer on the same day he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but it seems nothing can stop the Big Yin laughing
Tweets from famous Scottish folk on referendum day
Andy Murray campaigns for yes, while J.K. Rowling is firmly in the No camp
Billy Connolly says he ‘could have done more’ to help Robin Williams
The comedian says showbusiness is a ‘lonely life’
Television: ‘Prey’ delivers thrill of the chase while bingo documentary hits the jackpot
If ‘Prey’ is gripping drama, ‘Bingo Nights’ offers another sort of tension, and ‘The Savage Eye’ is welcome back
Scots tell David Bowie to ‘f*** off back to Mars’
Singer’s calls for Scotland to stay in UK provokes flood of online abuse
Pat Egan: still promoting after all these years
Pat Egan was one of the first to bring big rock and pop shows to Ireland, and after decades of promoting acts such as Bob Marley, and many walks on the wild side, he’s still in business
Judi Dench: "I have many more insecurities than I ever had before"
The theatrical Dame chats to Tara Brady about her new movie Philomena, still being nervous and admiring Clint Eastwood’s eyes
Billy Connolly treated for ‘initial symptoms’ of Parkinson’s
Scottish comedian has also undergone surgery for prostate cancer
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