Brenda Fricker opened the door to a new Ireland when she won her Oscar for My Left Foot
In person and on screen the late actor radiated an earthy integrity that cannot be faked
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As Disclosure Day arrives in cinemas, we rate each of the director’s 34 movies so far
Channel 4: where did it all go wrong?
Once acclaimed for its creativity and originality, the broadcaster is now a purveyor of cheap reality TV and manufactured sensationalism
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley finishes a job started by three other Irish stars
The Hamnet star, winner of the Academy Award for best actress, had seemed unstoppable for months
Oscar winner Jessie Buckley to her husband: ‘You, Fred, I love you. I want to have 20,000 more babies with you’
The Irish star, picking up the Academy Award for best actress for her heart-rending turn in Hamnet, is one of two Irish winners
Oscars 2026: All of Ireland’s Academy Award wins, including two doubles and a triple
If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners
‘You took the money’: Tarantino responds to Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction racial slur criticism
Director has received criticism on multiple occasions during his career over use of word in his films
Iftas 2026: Top two films scoop 26 nominations as Steve Coogan goes up against Daniel Day-Lewis
Irish Film & Television Academy Awards nominations recognise Christy and Saipan as Blue Lights and The Walsh Sisters get drama nods
Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is shamelessly sentimental – but it could run and run
The bar for ‘Christmas classic’ has fallen so low that this could be a contender. It’s not the worst example actually
John C Reilly: ‘I worked with this older Irish actor one time. He was bummed out if I said anything that wasn’t the lines’
John C Reilly is bringing Mister Romantic, his performance of love songs by Nat King Cole, Tom Waits and others, to Dublin
Four new films to see this week: Anemone, Abode, Die My Love and Train Dreams
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 7th
Pauline Collins: The actor whose most celebrated roles held a sense of sly intelligence
Collins was part of Killarney’s New Irish Players in the 1960s before going on to earn her Oscar nomination
Anemone review: This grandiose, inventively operatic project starring Daniel Day-Lewis is no ordinary film
Exhaustingly morose debut feature from Ronan Day-Lewis has unquestionable evidence of talent
Brenda Fricker’s She Died Young: Oscar winner looks back on her public success and private trauma
Brenda Fricker has written an unsentimental, brilliant and often shocking memoir
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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