The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands

Maggie O’Farrell hails actors’ performances in adaptation of her novel

In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares

Paul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominations

Gary Oldman and Adam Scott among those nominated in TV category

The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics feared

Yorgos Lanthimos’s careering, unsettling film lets Stone demonstrate her range, as her character tries every trick to win over Plemons’s twitching lunatic

You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.

Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actors

Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews

Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert

Canadian author talks about her unconventional memoir, growing up in a Mennonite community, and cycling around Belfast in the 1980s

Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history

Tim Crouch feeds his delighted guest star her lines in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making

It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next year

Cillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongs

The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics

Sinéad O’Shea’s documentary is remarkable, though, for its consideration of an extraordinary life

With the release of her Edna O’Brien documentary imminent, documentary maker Sinéad O’Shea talks about the late writer’s remarkable and often difficult life

Unfortunately, the lived experience of creatives working in Ireland is often a struggle