Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’
The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands
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‘Incredibly inspiring’: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at Irish premiere of Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell hails actors’ performances in adaptation of her novel
Hamnet review: Five stars for Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s devastating film
In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nods
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Golden Globes 2026: Irish co-stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley nominated for roles in Hamnet
Gary Oldman and Adam Scott among those nominated in TV category
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look
The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics feared
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons on Bugonia: ‘I forget all the time that I won best actor at Cannes’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s careering, unsettling film lets Stone demonstrate her range, as her character tries every trick to win over Plemons’s twitching lunatic
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
Jessie Buckley is unbeatable at the Oscars. Unless this happens
Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actors
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on their new film Hamnet: ‘I only want to make films as brave and as human as this’
Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews
Ruff justice: is Shakespeare being cancelled?
Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert
Miriam Toews: ‘It’s unlike any of the other books that I’ve ever written’
Canadian author talks about her unconventional memoir, growing up in a Mennonite community, and cycling around Belfast in the 1980s
Sinn Féin may reject commemorating the Normans, but there are some suspiciously Saxon names in its ranks
Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history
An Oak Tree at the Young Vic review: Pregnant Jessie Buckley brings extra poignancy to this theatrical wonder
Tim Crouch feeds his delighted guest star her lines in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making
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