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Matt Williams: Ten ways to navigate the barren rugby landscape

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Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’

The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre

Ashford Castle: Eighty years old and more gorgeous than ever

Tollman family have spent €68m since 2015 restoring historic castle to its former glory

Barry Fitzgerald: the civil servant who became one of Ireland’s first Hollywood stars

‘The Quiet Man’ actor Barry Fitzgerald described as ‘one of the greatest comedians who ever went on stage’

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 50 years on, it still works spectacularly well

Paul Newman and Robert Redford starred in what is still one of the most entertaining westerns

Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door

Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims

Quiet Man director’s love for Maureen O’Hara revealed in letter

‘Oh Maureen, my darling, I love you so much! Your face is in my dreams,’ wrote John Ford

Maureen O’Hara: ‘An Irishwoman has guts and stands up for what she believes in’

The late Hollywood actor grew up in Ranelagh, Co Dublin- ‘I didn’t take discipline very well’

The making of Darby O’Gill and the Little People

Walt Disney aimed the film at Americans with ‘shamrocks in their eyes’. He missed

The Wild Bunch at 50: Peckinpah’s symphony of wanton destruction ages disturbingly well

The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today

Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race

Re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, Dr Strangelove is arguably the most improbable comedy ever made

Quiet Man railway station opens to showcase restoration work

Location marks opening scene of 1952 John Ford film shot at Ballyglunin station, Galway

Yee-haw! Cowboy beans with roast chicken

Lilly Higgins: When her son discovered cowboy films, this tray bake proved a winner

Red Dead Redemption 2: Roger Clark plays his best game yet

Irish-American actor's role in Rockstar's blockbuster helped it earn critical acclaim

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