After Irish actors and films had a blockbuster 2023, hope this year mainly rests on Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun and Blitz
Winfrey chose Keegan’s novella for the first instalment of her new YouTube series The Oprah Podcast
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
The Wicked stars’ sentimental gush lachrymose interviews have surely helped drive the film to an enormous opening in US cinemas
Small Things Like These raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star
Couple say they will reopen Phoenix cinema where actor went to see films as a young boy while on holiday in Co Kerry
The fact is the film was beautiful, earnest, poetic and sublime. But that’s not what I saw in the moment
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
New Ross townhouse with shopfront has been in the Walsh family for more than a century
Cillian Murphy probably didn’t expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now
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Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Small Things Like These misses an essential truth about Catholic Ireland
Irish actor Kate Gilmore has taken on what might be her greatest challenge yet: performing alone on stage in Disco Pigs, creator Enda Walsh’s experimental new play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
Dublin actor will take on an undisclosed role in Steven Knight’s Birmingham-based period drama
This animated film touches lightly on environmental themes, loss and history
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Tallaght playwright on new play Reunion, his changing preoccupations, and the stress of TV work
As the 25th year of the century approaches, never before has there been a period of comparable international visibility of Irish culture
Dublin artist Yvonne McGuinness lives on the fringes of a starry world, thanks to her marriage to Cillian Murphy, but says she feels more at ease in a mucky field than on a red carpet
Peaky Blinders film on Netflix will be ‘explosive’ and ‘no holds barred’, creator Steven Knight says
The guitarist and classically-trained composer has a number of orchestral projects planned for autumn at the historic Dublin venue
Television: Steven Knight, at his best, delivers a blockbuster fizzle to the small screen. But when he’s bad, he’s pretty awful
The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill
With the return of Bridgerton, here’s a guide to costume drama
After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation
Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly
Donald Clarke: Nobody likes a postcolonial moaner, but it’s odd that casually ridiculing the Irish can be regarded as only the most minor social misdemeanour
Lies We Tell claims most awards of the night, including best actress for Agnes O’Casey, as Paul Mescal wins best supporting actor for All of Us Strangers
Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory
His face remains unimpressed on the red carpet, in press interviews and meeting members of the British royal family
RTÉ Radio 1 presenter on filling Ronan Collins's slot, parenting with Paul Galvin and the music she can’t play
The New Yorker thinks it knows the Cork actor but, having met him twice – though we didn’t speak – I am best placed to speculate on his sleep preparations
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