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The latest on film, books, stage, music, design, media and heritage from The @IrishTimes.
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Mariah Carey ‘smashes every goddamn note’ at a glass-breaking gig in Dublin via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Outlander star Caitriona Balfe talks with Paul Lynch about ‘Grace’
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Western Stars is the best and most radical @springsteen album in years (via @IrishTimesCultr)
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Terminator Genisys review: Nuclear war is the least of its disasters http://t.co/nTiERAA4K3
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Magician, the Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles review http://t.co/HPin2XyxvF
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Constance Markievicz: experiences of a woman patrol (1915) - http://t.co/zdwfeaoyy6
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Ariana Grande: Sweetener - celebrating the art of being okay
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Dublin from another angle: visual records of the changing inner city - http://t.co/3NBPUgor8D
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The Last Five Years: A classy musical about doomed love | Review - http://t.co/E5f1du4tQ2
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‘Force your children to play metal. It builds character’ - http://t.co/yr2QWayLIL
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Toni Morrison: ‘The present is not good. All the hawks are screaming’ - http://t.co/keKype7IPB
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Dating Amber: A story about two gay teenagers, being each other's beards via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Niall Horan plays a sort-of gig for a kind-of audience. It’s a bit of a triumph via @IrishTimesCultr.
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John Prine: ‘The country they’re playing now is just bad pop music’
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Irish woman the first female conductor to lead orchestra at Oscars
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In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside this Dublin library
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"The now-deleted scene from the 1999 film featured the character Stinky Pete the Prospector, a small, rotund, bearded toy, caught chatting salaciously to two Barbie dolls, stroking their hands and suggesting he could get them a part in the next movie"
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Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’
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Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat? via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Saoirse Ronan: ‘I’d like to play Countess Markievicz, so I can use my own accent’, via @IrishTimesCultr
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Saoirse Ronan: ‘Support the girls around you. That can have a massive impact’ via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Niall Horan: Flicker Featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra review – Quality strings attached via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Patrick Freyne: It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is on the verge of losing it, via @IrishTimesCultr
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A nightclub in Dublin is dispensing with entry costs for customers, and instead asking clubbers to donate to a homelessness charity @pygmaliondub (via @IrishTimesCultr)
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Zombie by Limerick rock band The Cranberries has become the first music video from an Irish act to reach 1 billion views on YouTube.
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Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor for his role as Dad in “Grief is the Thing with Feathers” @Complicite @waywardprods @LandmarkIreland @GalwayIntArts @IrishTimes #ITTheatreawards @TileStyle.
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Niall Horan at 3Arena: everything you need to know
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Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh announce new theatre work
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Christina Aguilera at 3Arena review: raunchy, gritty show of female empowerment via @IrishTimesCultr.
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I want children to know that reading as Gaeilge isn’t just obair bhaile via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Danielle McLaughlin: “I’m a new writer, but not a young writer, and so it’s fortunate for me that the Windham-Campbell awards recognise the work of writers of all ages!”
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U2 to outline tour dates for The Joshua Tree on Monday
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Lana Del Rey: Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd – Long, maudlin and one of her best albums yet via @IrishTimesCultr
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Songs of the week: Blackpink, Mr Sanka, Tebi Rex and Innocent Bystander
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I am a Catalan writer and I want independence for my country
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A grumpily stoic Johnny Depp, a ‘megapint’ of wine, and the hate campaign against Amber Heard (via @IrishTimesCultr )
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Beastie Boys: ‘We were the first wave of crazy’
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“Death and Nightingales is paced like a thriller, but that’s not what it is. It’s a classic of modern Irish literature, packed with great detail," says via @IrishTimesCultr
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Irish actor Paul Mescal has seen off fierce competition from the likes of John Boyega and Josh O’Connor to scoop the best actor prize at Sunday's Bafta awards (via @IrishTimesCultr).
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In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside Dublin’s Central Library
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National Campaign for the Arts @Campaign4Arts has been awarded for its exceptional dedication to advocacy and political engagement on behalf of the arts, particularly during COVID with The Judge's Special Award #ITTheatreAwards
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‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ has beaten The Office and Gavin & Stacey to be named the best British sitcom of 21st century
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Shane MacGowan: The tail-end of a great Irish tradition?
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Black 47: The Famine on film – it’s only taken 170 years
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Cillian Murphy: I was 20. I was foolishly pursuing a law degree and then this thing came along, and, just out of curiosity, I auditioned for it (via @IrishTimesCultr).
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Sleaford Mods: ‘Right now it’s embarrassing to be English. I feel ashamed, frankly’ via @IrishTimesCultr.
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330,000 copies of Anna Burns’ ‘Milkman’ sold, ‘rising by thousands every day’ via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Anna Burns wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Happy 75th birthday Helen Mirren: The woman who could make men feel like boys via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Walking away from the dead: what the Famine did to Ireland
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Saoirse Ronan wins best actress at Golden Globes
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Owen Roe to get special tribute award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Adam Lambert: ‘Good music is good music, and people want to be entertained’ via @IrishTimesCultr
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Jan Carson wins EU Prize for Literature Ireland 2019 for The Firestarters via @IrishTimesCultr.
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This remains a highly diverting film that rightly honours forgotten
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House of Gucci actor Adam Driver on his original career plans, filming in Ireland, and taking a break after starring in 17 roles since 2016 (via @IrishTimesCultr)
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Brian Cox: It’s worth reminding yourself, every day, that you came from a cloud of dust that just collapsed under gravity four and a half billion years ago, yet you can look out onto the universe and feel emotion. That’s remarkable.
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Niall Horan, Rejjie Snow, CupcakKe, Stereophonics: the best rock and pop this week
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Golden Globes 2023: The Banshees of Inisherin wins three awards as Colin Farrell takes best actor via @IrishTimesCultr
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In the Name of Gerry Conlon: Horrifying revelations about Britain’s treatment of the Guildford Four via @IrishTimesCultr
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Niall Horan at 3Arena: Unreal, amazing, You killed it – the view from the fans
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Boy George on his Irish family: ‘It’s sadder than even I could have imagined’
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Paul Mescal wins best actor Olivier Award for A Streetcar Named Desire role via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Oscars 2021: Irish film Wolfwalkers nominated as best animated feature via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘Jane Campion had to create a real monster out of me’ (via @IrishTimesCultr)
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Christine Dwyer Hickey and Sinéad Gleeson win first Dalkey Literary Awards via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Winter solstice at Newgrange broadcast live around the world
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We are thrilled to announce Janet Moran (@Janbananmoran) is awarded Best Actress for her role as Mairead in the Fishamble: the New Play Company (@Fishamble) production of "Heaven" #ITITA
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‘Trump called us human scum this morning’: Apprentice stars Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on being in the line of fire via @IrishTimesCultr.
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‘Eavan Boland’s legacy is in her poems, but it is also in Irish life’ via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Murmuration of starlings: James Crombie, press photographer of the year, spent months chasing the perfect shot at Lough Ennell (.via @IrishTimesCultr )
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Scorched earth during heatwave reveals new monument at Newgrange
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Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan dies at age of 46
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Cillian Murphy: ‘Playing live music was how I learned about performance’
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Cillian Murphy film Small Things Like These grips audience at Berlin festival via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’ via @IrishTimesCultr.
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Aaron Sorkin: ‘The best storytellers on the planet are Irish’
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President leads tributes to late poet Richard Murphy
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St Brigid the ‘kick-ass warrior poet and goddess’: Siobhán McSweeney finds a very Irish superhero via @IrishTimesCultr
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