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How Paddy Cosgrave’s relations with his former friends have gone from bad to worse to extremely ugly
Cosgrave, who is largely upbeat and spirited in person, regards his online persona as a different entity. That does not negate the hurt people have felt at the hands of either character
The Ukrainian female commander fighting Putin’s forces: ‘If I have to choose between death and captivity, I will choose death’
Lieut Yulia Mykytenko has told her extraordinary story to Lara Marlowe, who shaped it into a powerful book. Earlier this month the pair met in person for the first time in Dublin. Next week the Ukrainian will be back leading troops on the front line
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
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Three sporting events to watch this week: Your handy guide to sport on television
Your guide to the best sport on television
Marilyn Mazur Special 4 at Cork Jazz Festival 2024 review: Rhythm, movement and enchantment brilliantly to the fore
The shapeshifting percussionist, who played vital roles in bands led by Miles Davis and Jan Garbarek, leads an absorbing 70-minute set
Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
Felicity Hayes-McCoy: ‘So many of Ireland’s revolutionary women felt disillusioned and betrayed after the State was set up’
The author on the genre she calls ‘uplit’, the ‘perfect balance’ of living between London and the Kerry Gaeltacht, and her admiration for Greta Thunberg
Four new films to see this week
Bold trans drama/musical Emilia Pérez and Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door. Plus a lyrical Senegaelse documentary and an avant-garde depiction of an avant-garde painter
Halloween is American? Another chance to yell corrections into English earholes is always welcome
The ancient festival has become merely the end point for a month-long orgy of horror-related consumer bingeing. At least it keeps Christmas at bay
Unflinching examinations of contemporary teenage life in October’s YA picks
A Kathleen Glasgow novel that asks the big questions, and new works by AS King, Louisa Reid, James Butler and Jason Reynolds
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
October 27th-November 1st, 2024: From zombie Brexit satire Generation Z to old-fashioned Hammer horror for Halloween
The Ukrainian female commander fighting Putin’s forces: ‘If I have to choose between death and captivity, I will choose death’
Lieut Yulia Mykytenko has told her extraordinary story to Lara Marlowe, who shaped it into a powerful book. Earlier this month the pair met in person for the first time in Dublin. Next week the Ukrainian will be back leading troops on the front line
How Paddy Cosgrave’s relations with his former friends have gone from bad to worse to extremely ugly
Cosgrave, who is largely upbeat and spirited in person, regards his online persona as a different entity. That does not negate the hurt people have felt at the hands of either character
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
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?
Robert Smith of The Cure: ‘I still feel like that 10-year-old kid staring at the moon’
The Cure’s power comes from the singer’s two sides – he’s ‘part of the world but also not part of it’. That’s still evident on Songs of Lost World, the band’s new album
Big tech has been stealthily training its AI models. Creatives are finally waking up to the dangers. Are they too late?
More than 20,000 artists, writers, composers and other cultural creatives are objecting to unlicensed scraping of their work in the AI space race
The Killing of Gaza by Gideon Levy & The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon: Two very different books
Amir Tibon’s book tells a true story that reads like a thriller, while Gideon Levy presents a specific narrative that is challenging, particularly for supporters of Israel
The Guide: Max Richter, Kneecap, Bambie Thug and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
October 26th to November 1st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe - nuanced, frank, remarkable
A careful and pointed portrait of sentiment in wartime Ukraine that shows the country is not quite as it is viewed in the West
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley: Stories with an ominous quality, like a knock at the door on a dark evening
This folk-horror collection spans 2,000 years, following the residents of Barrowbeck, each generation shrugging off the strange events that visit the village
Mr Geography by Tim Parks: The agonising choice between safe domestic ordinariness and the thrilling promise of illicit passion
A retired headmaster traces DH Lawrence’s route across Switzerland in a doomed bid to exorcise the ghosts of a past relationship
Books in brief: The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg; Poor Artists; and The War Against the Past
Books by Uwe Neumhar; Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad; and Frank Furedi
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton: Championing Werner Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant and Jorge Luis Borges
This is a winding, lyrical text that juggles biography and theory
Gregory Porter review: Cork Jazz Festival at its best, with music that reaches out and welcomes you in
The Grammy winner gets his biggest cheer for Hey Laura, but Porter standards such as Liquid Spirit and Mister Holland are no less rapturously received
Pixies drummer David Lovering: ‘My advice for Oasis? Have us as your opening act’
Drummer David Lovering recalls Pixies Boston roots as the punk-pop pioneers to whom Nirvana, Fontaines DC and even Olivia Rodrigo owe a debt surf a wave of renewed success
Maia Dunphy: Can we all agree that fancy dress should be for children only?
We need to fight harder to avoid the trap of growing up but, for the love of God, step away from the fancy dress box