Stage IRA Man – Frank McNally on the real and pretend 1916 Rising of actor Arthur Shields
He went to the Abbey Theatre to collect a rifle hidden under the stage and join the fighting
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Best Westerns: Larry McMurtry and the true heroes of the old American West
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
The Quiet Man, at Dublin Theatre Festival, gets bogged down as it tries some reverse Paddywhackery
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
Council removes Maureen O’Hara statue at sculptor’s request following criticism
Installation taken down in Glengarriff, west Cork within 48 hours
Jane Campion: ‘If New Zealand can be Middle Earth, it can be Montana’
The director’s new film is a powerful study of masculinity set on a ranch in the 1920s
Nomadland review: Chloé Zhao’s triple Oscar winner is a film at war with itself
Frances McDormand plays a widow who takes to the road after losing her job
Lee Isaac Chung: ‘There are a lot of hate crimes going on right now against Asians’
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
Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star
He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront
News of the World: Tom Hanks is good. But he’s not the best actor in this Netflix western
Film review: Helena Zengel is brilliant as the traumatised orphan Tom Hanks rescues
John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic American
A limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravado
The age-old ‘Ugly American’ trope, after decades, has reappeared
Covid-19 failure has reignited hostilities towards stereotypically loud US tourists
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Beyond Netflix: where to find Golden Age classic movies
Apple and Google are excellent options for the greatest era of American cinema
The 25 best films of the 2010s. None of them won best-picture Oscar
The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?
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Stardust
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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