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Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowrote
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Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
Ranked: The 15 greatest Irish moments at the Oscars
From Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker winning acting awards for My Left Foot to the Academy singing Happy Birthday to James Martin in 2023
Ranked: the 25 greatest films to lose out on best picture Oscar
The films that were nominated for best picture but never won, losing out more often than not to a lesser work
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out
Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards
Fionnuala Ward: So long autographs, selfies are taking over
Getting a photo with a celebrity is the done thing these days, but a few scribbled words can also tell a tale
Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis was third-choice UK poet laureate in 1968, archives show
Father of Oscar-winning Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis was put forward for prestigious position after two other frontrunners were dismissed as ineligible
Milan Kundera obituary: Communist Party outcast whose sexually charged novels turned him into a literary star
Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being captured the suffocating absurdity of life
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From Bergman, Bogart and Brando to De Niro, Portman and Taylor, the competition is stellar - and Streep doesn’t make the cut
An Oscar ceremony dominated by Ireland... but will anybody be watching?
Back when host David Niven dealt with a male streaker, the Oscars were essential viewing. Now audiences have lost interest (unless a star assaults the host)
British actor Julian Sands missing in California mountains after hike
The 65-year-old A Room with a View actor was first reported missing on January 13th
Vicky Krieps: ‘Wearing these dresses is actually torture. It cuts off the emotions’
Vicky Krieps’s award-winning performance in Corsage as an iconic Mitteleuropean monarch strips away the myth and the glamour
Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland
Adam McKay: ‘An Oscar? How the f**k did that happen?’
Oscar-winning filmaker Adam McKay has a new film about the end of the world
Bob Dylan at 80: The master musician’s 39 albums, ranked
To mark Dylan’s 80th birthday, superfan Ian O’Riordan rates his studio albums
Forget Harry, Ronnie the Potter’s wizardry still capable of casting a magic spell
The ageless 90s kid has come through it all with his undimmed brilliance intact
Ian O’Riordan: Following JM Synge’s footsteps over his beloved native terrain
Foothills of Dublin and Wicklow mountains evoke spirit of famed Irish playwright/poet
Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people
Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past
‘My waitressing job was paying the bills so I could afford to work at the theatre’
Wild Geese: Pauline Turley is the vice-chair of the Irish Arts Center in New York
Ian O’Riordan: The myth and truth of the barefoot runner
The Infinite Race is the latest instalment of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series
Matthew McConaughey: ‘I wouldn’t give back one ass-whupping for the values that are ingrained in me’
The actor on his life philosophies, securing roles, and his new memoir Greenlights
HSE told a Dublin hospice provider to ‘cut services’ to break even
HSE has avoided publicly stating providers should cut or close services to stay in budget
Christopher Eccleston: ‘I was ashamed about my depression and eating disorder’
The actor talks about how he found his way back from a breakdown and anorexia
Uncut Gems: How Adam Sandler and the Safdie brothers made a jewel of a film
Directors Joshua and Benjamin Safdie and their 10-year journey to making Uncut Gems
Tyrone v Donegal is about giving nothing and relinquishing nothing
Suddenly, the Ulster championship finds itself at the height of fashion and celebrated
My Left Foot at 30: Its Oscar success was due to Weinstein
Released in April 1989, it changed everything for Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Sheridan
Amy Adams: ‘I have this internal voice that is just not a cheerleader for myself’
In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist
Oscars 2018: Who’ll win, who won’t and 10 other questions
Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?
Bafta awards 2018: full list of winners
Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ triumphs as Saoirse Ronan left empty handed
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final film
Review: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around him
Directing Daniel Day-Lewis: ‘I know. I’ve killed off the world’s greatest actor’
Paul Thomas Anderson on directing Daniel Day-Lewis in his final film, Phantom Thread
Oscars 2018: full list of nominations
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ and Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon nominated
Saoirse Ronan, ‘Three Billboards’, Cartoon Saloon and Daniel Day-Lewis nominated for Oscars
Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ is named in seven nomination categories
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