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Beyond the easy attraction of ‘cowboying’, the quartet’s true heroes are the women of the west, with their preternatural strength, humanity and dignity in such a noisome environment
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: John Breen and Mikel Murfi set out to reclaim the short story that became John Ford’s John Hinde vision of Ireland
Installation taken down in Glengarriff, west Cork within 48 hours
The director’s new film is a powerful study of masculinity set on a ranch in the 1920s
Frances McDormand plays a widow who takes to the road after losing her job
The Korean-American filmmaker talks about Minari, which has won six Oscar nominations and comes at a fraught time for Asian communities in the US
He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront
Film review: Helena Zengel is brilliant as the traumatised orphan Tom Hanks rescues
A limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravado
Covid-19 failure has reignited hostilities towards stereotypically loud US tourists
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Apple and Google are excellent options for the greatest era of American cinema
The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?
Walk for the Weekend: Cong Woods Walk, Co Mayo
The UK’s departure will force Ireland to make strategic decisions on its place in Europe
‘The Quiet Man’ actor Barry Fitzgerald described as ‘one of the greatest comedians who ever went on stage’
Peter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent Hollywood
‘Oh Maureen, my darling, I love you so much! Your face is in my dreams,’ wrote John Ford
The presentation of Gaelic games from short films in the US to TV deals of the modern day
The late Hollywood actor grew up in Ranelagh, Co Dublin- ‘I didn’t take discipline very well’
Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies
Piety about rural values never did anything to stop the receding tide of depopulation
Walt Disney aimed the film at Americans with ‘shamrocks in their eyes’. He missed
The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today
Hate Disney’s trailer? You’re one of a growing number of strangely frustrated film fans
Location marks opening scene of 1952 John Ford film shot at Ballyglunin station, Galway
To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy
Greece Letter: Today there is that same paralysis and sense of catastrophe as in 1967
Trump’s genius for hate and division has driven us into a canyon that won’t be easy to exit
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
Irish director Lance Daly has made his Famine film as a revenge tale in the vein of ‘Unforgiven’
Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’
Review: Valeska Grisebach’s thorny film takes a scalpel to male bravado and colonialism
Carrolls Irish Gifts shops are as apt a symbol for contemporary Ireland as anything else
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
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
New Music Dublin to open with Crash Ensemble on the front steps of the National Concert Hall at sunset
An American original, he was best known for Night of the Living Dead
Trumpian subtexts, breathtaking visuals and an Oscar-worthy turn from Andy Serkis
‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor
Ballyglunin group has plans for an arts centre in building used in famous movie
Exclusive: Irish golfer looks relaxed as he has breakfast at Ashford Castle in Co Mayo
Padraig O’Brien (42) identified as a rustler by a trail of hoof marks that led to his farm
Ford caricatured himself on Valentine card in Irish garb with trademark sunglasses and pipe
Starry provenance pushes prices up at New York auction
Bidders from Ireland among large crowd in saleroom for ‘Queen of Technicolor’ effects
Sean Scully pastel makes €165,000 at de Veres, while Maureen O’Hara’s estate set for NY auction
Unfounded symphysiotomy claims, Obama and Ellen and fears about The Quiet Man
‘We may have protests’, said Washington counsellor when film premiered in 1952
Loach weaves many moments of quiet brilliance into his Palme D’Or-winning polemic about the UK’s Kafkaesque welfare system
John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling
Bronwyn Fitzsimons was daughter of O’Hara and the director William Houston Price
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
