John C Reilly: ‘I worked with this older Irish actor one time. He was bummed out if I said anything that wasn’t the lines’
John C Reilly is bringing Mister Romantic, his performance of love songs by Nat King Cole, Tom Waits and others, to Dublin
Tom Waits
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
Barns ignoble – Frank McNally on Tom Waits’s barn obsession (and why Macbeth is innocent)
Tom Waits seems to have moved the scene to 20th century America
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t – especially on an Aer Lingus plane
Hugh Linehan: ‘Trapped in a confined space with loud music played at you is what they do to terrorists,’ one commenter said about last weekend’s impromptu session
‘The Rolling Stones wanted me to compromise. And I didn’t want to compromise’
Paul Charles is no pushover. One of the lessons of Adventures in Wonderland, the Irish music agent’s new memoir, is that sometimes you have to say no
Badhands: Far Away – Touching songs of love, loss and emotional flux
Second album from Dublin composer and songwriter Daniel Fitzpatrick, aka Badhands
On the Rocks – Frank McNally on shipwrecks, old salts, and a rainy night in Sydney
An Irishman’s Diary
Johnny Cash gave her a daisy and the rest was history
The New York film maker who tumbled upon creativity in the haystacks of Kildare
Damon Albarn’s criticism of Taylor Swift is ‘hopelessly out of date’
Comment: He wrongly said she didn’t write her own songs – revealing a pop-vs-indie snobbery
Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s son
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative
‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin
The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Traditional music meets jazz as Damien McGeehan hits uncharted terrain
Donegal fiddle players’s new album Kin has a strong sense of people and of place
The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’
Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body art
Crosswords & Puzzles
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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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices