The Irish Times

Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants

Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 17:40

Joan Collins’s star-studded home movies: What they show of Hollywood’s golden age

Paul Newman, Tony Curtis and Sammy Davis jnr in footage for actor’s ‘roller-coaster story’

Wed Sept 01 2021 - 11:35

Passing the baton – how Parnell’s walking stick became a literary totem

An Irishman’s Diary

Tue Dec 29 2020 - 19:30

Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar

Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103

Thu Feb 06 2020 - 10:46

Jim Savage obituary: A generous and passionate artist and educator

The Manchester-born drawing specialist had a major impact on the Irish artistic landscape

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00

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

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

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00

Leo Varadkar and Donald Trump turned me into the Prince of Lies

Patrick Freyne: As Leo Varadkar was siding with Trump on the media, I thought: How did I get here?

Sat Jul 07 2018 - 06:15

From Canada to Clifden: The aviators who trumped Lindbergh

The feats of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown will be celebrated in June 2019

Wed Jun 13 2018 - 12:26

Last convict ship of Irish prisoners arrived in Perth 150 years ago

Ten-day 'Fenians, Fremantle and Freedom Festival' celebrates connection between Ireland and Perth

Thu Jan 04 2018 - 11:45

Paddy McKillen’s son Tyrone has plans for €154m LA estate to the stars

Tyrone McKillen’s Plus Development company is involved a number of high-level residential projects in LA

Thu Jul 27 2017 - 19:19

Obituary: Miriam Colón

Theatre founder and ‘Scarface’ actor who played Pacino character’s mother

Thu Mar 09 2017 - 17:58

Roger Moore: ‘I was too smooth, before time rolled its evil tracks across my gob’

The ex-007 talks movies, marriages and how Aidan Turner would look good as Bond

Thu Nov 10 2016 - 06:00

Ten great movie bromances

Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre

Wed Feb 10 2016 - 06:00

Robert Pinsky: ‘I don’t like the idea that poetry is marketed’

The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Sat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00

Zamperini film pushes perception of unbreakable athlete but truth is more complex

First Fortnight is festival that challenges mental health prejudice through the arts

Sun Jan 04 2015 - 13:44

Joe Wilson will bring the mountain to you

Visual Art: The Twelve Bens are vividly captured in Wilson’s picture book; plus reviews of Kevin Cosgrove and selected works from the collection of Pat and Antoinette Murphy

Tue Sept 30 2014 - 01:00

Flying cows, spiralling elves and spicy feet among Baboró festival events in Galway

Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published

Tue Sept 09 2014 - 01:04

Some Like It Hot review: A bit funkier than you remember?

It may begin with a mass murder, but it’s one of Billy Wilder’s less cynical comedies

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:32

Louis Zamperini, Olympian and war survivor, dies at 97

Incredible life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand’s best-seller ‘Unbroken’

Fri Jul 04 2014 - 16:31

Cultural gifts: stocking fillers and fantasy fare for arty types

From the realistic (books, video games, DVDs) to the less so (Rothko Painting No 1, Bond’s Aston Martin), ‘Irish Times’ writers reveal what’s on their Santa lists

Mon Dec 09 2013 - 01:00