Proud to be Irish: Aidan Gillen, Joe O’Connor and more on their cultural treasures
What underrated or unheralded Irish film, book, TV show, art or music do you tell your friends about?
Olwen Fouéré
Four Letters of Love review: Every interior in this preposterous film suggests an Irish theme pub in 1990s Basingstoke
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne team up with antique spinning-wheels, nuns and vowels from all 32 counties
The Guide: Zach Bryan, Charli XCX, Rosie O’Donnell and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 14th-20th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Waiting for Godot review: Olwyn Fouéré, breaking ground as the first woman to star in Beckett’s play, gives a sublime performance
The extraordinary acting of Fouéré and her fellow principals is all the more remarkable for being unpolished, undirected and unrehearsed
Warrior queen meets rock’n’roll: Róisín Gartland pushes the boundaries of traditional art practices
Sean Penn and Bono have been among celebrity fans of the Irish designer and leather specialist whose creativity extends well beyond virtuoso workmanship
Pick up some covetable clothing while helping a charity – what’s not to love?
The St Vincent de Paul shop on South Great George’s Street in Dublin has a trove of gorgeous garments as modelled by distinguished actor Olwen Fouéré
Did Irish author Anne Dunlop invent chick lit in the early 1990s?
Exploring women’s literature and the formation of identity leads us from AS Byatt and Anne Dunlop to Madonna and Judith Butler
All You Need Is Death review: Singular Irish horror is a symphony of weirdness
In Paul Duane’s film, the growing sense of being lost in a Celtic variation on Hieronymus Bosch is stirring in the most creatively disagreeable way
Paul Duane: ‘I sold one of my vineyards. It gave me a bit of comfort to see Coppola was doing the same thing’
Irish director Paul Duane has financed All You Need Is Death largely out of his own pocket. Now the horror film is generating a lot of buzz
The Guide: John Mayer, DJ Shadow, Emma Doran and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
March 23rd-29th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The President review: Olwen Fouéré and Hugo Weaving give heroic performances in the Gate’s classy production
The Dublin theatre teams up with Sydney Theatre Company to celebrate the underperformed Austrian great Thomas Bernhard
Olwen Fouéré: ‘I didn’t feel Irish. There’s a great advantage to being an outsider’
The distinctive actor and performer, currently on television in The Tourist, resists convention in both her work and personal life
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Absolute bloody rubbish
Review: There’s very little to be said for this squalid sequel to the 1974 original
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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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