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Peter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent Hollywood

Quiet Man director’s love for Maureen O’Hara revealed in letter

‘Oh Maureen, my darling, I love you so much! Your face is in my dreams,’ wrote John Ford

GAA always keenly aware of the big picture regarding its games

The presentation of Gaelic games from short films in the US to TV deals of the modern day

Maureen O’Hara: ‘An Irishwoman has guts and stands up for what she believes in’

The late Hollywood actor grew up in Ranelagh, Co Dublin- ‘I didn’t take discipline very well’

The Dead Don’t Die: The most light-hearted film of Jim Jarmusch’s career

Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies

Fintan O’Toole: ‘Rural Ireland’ has been romanticised up to its neck

Piety about rural values never did anything to stop the receding tide of depopulation

The making of Darby O’Gill and the Little People

Walt Disney aimed the film at Americans with ‘shamrocks in their eyes’. He missed

The Wild Bunch at 50: Peckinpah’s symphony of wanton destruction ages disturbingly well

The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today

‘I’ll never sleep again and it’s all Will Smith’s fault’: Guy Ritchie and the Aladdin fallout

Hate Disney’s trailer? You’re one of a growing number of strangely frustrated film fans

Quiet Man railway station opens to showcase restoration work

Location marks opening scene of 1952 John Ford film shot at Ballyglunin station, Galway

Irish Repertory Theatre: casting O’Casey’s shadow over Manhattan

To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy

In troubled Greece, a coup may not be likely but it’s not unthinkable

Greece Letter: Today there is that same paralysis and sense of catastrophe as in 1967

Maureen Dowd: We are in a war over what kind of America we want

Trump’s genius for hate and division has driven us into a canyon that won’t be easy to exit

The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed

Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics

Nobody’s perfect. But ‘Some Like It Hot’ is

Billy Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?

In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation

As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season

Black ’47: it’s not a spaghetti western it’s a potato western

Irish director Lance Daly has made his Famine film as a revenge tale in the vein of ‘Unforgiven’

The reel Dublin: Best movies about the capital city

Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’

‘Western’ offers a clever study of toxic masculinity

Review: Valeska Grisebach’s thorny film takes a scalpel to male bravado and colonialism

Patrick Freyne: ‘We are a nation of alcoholic, backside-baring stoics with mother issues’

Carrolls Irish Gifts shops are as apt a symbol for contemporary Ireland as anything else

Walton Goggins: ‘I’m very grateful Quentin Tarantino saw something in me’

The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard III

From a brown trout to Rory McIlroy’s wedding: the saving of Ashford Castle

For years, Ashford Castle was in the doldrums – but a €75 million refit has put it back on the map, and it has been winning international acclaim and awards ever since

Director’s first full festival hoves into view

New Music Dublin to open with Crash Ensemble on the front steps of the National Concert Hall at sunset

Director George Romero, inventor of the modern zombie film, dies

An American original, he was best known for Night of the Living Dead

War for the Planet of the Apes: A spectacular finish for the trilogy

Trumpian subtexts, breathtaking visuals and an Oscar-worthy turn from Andy Serkis

Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence

‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor

Campaign begins to save ‘Quiet Man’ railway station

Ballyglunin group has plans for an arts centre in building used in famous movie

Rory McIlroy’s wedding to Erica Stoll has Cong abuzz

Exclusive: Irish golfer looks relaxed as he has breakfast at Ashford Castle in Co Mayo

Cattle thief ‘shunned by local community’, court hears

Padraig O’Brien (42) identified as a rustler by a trail of hoof marks that led to his farm

Ford driven to woo Maureen O’Hara with ‘Irish’ Valentine card

Ford caricatured himself on Valentine card in Irish garb with trademark sunglasses and pipe

When Maureen O’Hara met Fidel Castro – a big night for memorabilia at Bonhams

Starry provenance pushes prices up at New York auction

Maureen O’Hara auction in New York draws strong Irish interest

Bidders from Ireland among large crowd in saleroom for ‘Queen of Technicolor’ effects

Auction results and fairs: Lavery’s ‘A Windy Day’ makes €1.1m at Christie’s

Sean Scully pastel makes €165,000 at de Veres, while Maureen O’Hara’s estate set for NY auction

Five things you need to know today

Unfounded symphysiotomy claims, Obama and Ellen and fears about The Quiet Man

‘The Quiet Man’: embassy in US feared a false view of Ireland

‘We may have protests’, said Washington counsellor when film premiered in 1952

I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach at his most moving - and most vital

Loach weaves many moments of quiet brilliance into his Palme D’Or-winning polemic about the UK’s Kafkaesque welfare system

Joseph Hone: Accomplished travel writer and novelist

John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling

Maureen O’Hara’s daughter found dead at Co Cork home

Bronwyn Fitzsimons was daughter of O’Hara and the director William Houston Price

The Hollywood hit that hid secrets of the Easter Rising

‘How Green was My Valley’ was the famous 1951 film that won five Oscars for John Ford: but it also contained a more fascinating story of how two of its actors had fought on opposite sides of the Rising

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