Culture

Comedy

• Culture
• 27 Aug 26

Irish comedian Marty Gleeson wins Best Newcomer in Comedians’ Choice Awards at Edinburgh Fringe

• Opinion
• 23 Aug 26

Mike Rice: "My mother thought Father Ted was mocking the clergy. If she saw my latest show, she’d faint"

• Culture
• 14 Aug 26

Joanne McNally adds a third 3Arena date to her Pinotphile tour

• Culture
• 13 Aug 26

Comedian Matt Mathews upgrades Irish venue due to demand for Not What I Ordered tour

• Culture
• 03 Aug 26

Vittorio Angelone: "My problem was I was fucking up socially, upsetting people, and not even realising"

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Commentary

• Opinion
• 22 Aug 26

Tyre, South Lebanon: "We don't want to lose our houses, our lovers, our music"

• Opinion
• 19 Aug 26

Cuba on the brink: "Many artists have emigrated, as has the audience that consumes quality art, and this has fragmented scenes that were once very strong"

• Culture
• 01 Jul 26

Ruth Negga, Tolü Makay, Cormac Begley and more feature at opening ceremony of Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU

• Opinion
• 21 Jun 26

Dublin Rose Suad Mooge: "As a child, I wasn’t looking at [the Rose of Tralee] thinking, ‘That could be me’ – because they looked nothing like me"

• Film And TV
• 20 Jun 26

Pride: "The history of queer cinema is, in many ways, the history of people insisting on their right to exist"

• Opinion
• 18 Jun 26

Ilana Glazer: "There’s no way these techno-fascists can really take the human spirit down"

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Interview

• Film And TV
• 26 Aug 26

Ridley Scott on The Dog Stars: "Entertainment should also challenge you – you can’t just sit there grinning at some stupid movie"

• Opinion
• 23 Aug 26

Mike Rice: "My mother thought Father Ted was mocking the clergy. If she saw my latest show, she’d faint"

• Film And TV
• 21 Aug 26

Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma director Jane Schoenbrun: "There’s a real regression alongside the fascism to traditional ‘50s-style values"

• Culture
• 06 Aug 26

Karen McLaughlin: “We are a part of the ecosystem and of the land”

• Culture
• 06 Aug 26

Louise Hegarty: "I was reading a lot about old actors who wore gorilla costumes..."

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Book News

• Culture
• 05 Aug 26

Sara Baume: "I feel like my peers, especially women, are writing about family, relationships and motherhood... I wanted to create a different story about being in your late thirties and forties"

• Culture
• 29 Jul 26

Niamh Campbell - Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest thrill? "Knowing I’ve triumphed over my enemies and they’ll definitely see it online"

• Culture
• 13 Jul 26

New Laois-based audiobook offshoot launches with titles from Rob Doyle, J.P. Donleavy and more

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Book Interview

• Culture
• 06 Aug 26

Louise Hegarty: "I was reading a lot about old actors who wore gorilla costumes..."

• Culture
• 05 Aug 26

Sara Baume: "I feel like my peers, especially women, are writing about family, relationships and motherhood... I wanted to create a different story about being in your late thirties and forties"

• Culture
• 01 Aug 26

Kathryn Stockett: "I went back to the scrappier writer that I was when I wrote The Help"

• Culture
• 04 Jul 26

Maggie O'Farrell on Land: "I was really interested in the possibility of telling the whole story of a country... but all via one plot of land"

• Culture
• 27 Jun 26

Douglas Stuart: “From the age of 12 to just about 16, I had to be part of a Protestant gang and fight Catholics"

• Opinion
• 08 Jun 26

Katriona O’Sullivan - Mad Hatter Q&A: "I’m not taking anything lying down"

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Book Review

• Opinion
• 08 Oct 25

Book Review: Joe Hill, King Sorrow

• Culture
• 08 Sep 25

Book Review: Living In The Present With John Prine

• Culture
• 02 Jul 24

Sarah Crossan on porn: "if you disapprove, does that mean you’re a prude, a non-feminist, or anti women doing what they want with their bodies?"

• Opinion
• 25 Jun 24

Book Review: Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

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Film Review

• Film And TV
• 07 Aug 26

FILM OF THE WEEK: Love Me Tender - Reviewed by Roe McDermott

• Film And TV
• 03 Mar 26

Film Review: Children in the Fire – Innocence, War and Resilience

• Film And TV
• 05 Sep 25

Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke go in all studs blazing in Saipan

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Film Interview

• Film And TV
• 26 Aug 26

Ridley Scott on The Dog Stars: "Entertainment should also challenge you – you can’t just sit there grinning at some stupid movie"

• Film And TV
• 21 Aug 26

Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma director Jane Schoenbrun: "There’s a real regression alongside the fascism to traditional ‘50s-style values"

• Film And TV
• 28 Jul 26

Danielle Galligan: "We can only have individual heroes because of the support of a community around them"

• Film And TV
• 19 Jun 26

John Carney on Power Ballad: Nick Jonas "is inscrutable and deep, and mercurial and fascinating. The more I know him, the less I know him"

• Film And TV
• 31 May 26

Happy 50th Birthday, Colin Farrell: Revisiting a Classic Interview

• Film And TV
• 22 May 26

Pedro Pascal on The Mandalorian And Grogu: "It’s the longest I’ve got to play a character... That it should be Star Wars is very fitting, because I grew up watching it"

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Previews-And-Trailers

• Film And TV
• 22 Jul 26

Warner Bros release official trailer for Clayface

• Culture
• 28 Oct 25

IFI to screen David Keenan's Irish-language documentary Focla ar Chanbhás (Words on Canvas)

• Culture
• 28 Aug 25

Fundraiser launched to honour Seán Rocks and St. Francis Hospice after benefit performance of The Weir sells out "in record time"

• Film And TV
• 11 Jun 25

Andrew Scott joins cast of Lena Dunham’s comedy series Too Much

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