Culture

Comedy

• Culture
• 09 Feb 26

Emma Doran extends her Emmaculate stand-up tour with Irish dates and biggest London show to date

• Culture
• 02 Feb 26

Ones To Watch 2026: Actors, comedians, poets, filmmakers, designers, entrepreneurs and more

• Culture
• 28 Jan 26

Tommy Tiernan, Gavin James, Emma Doran and Emmet Kirwan join star-studded line-up for Hot Press ‘History In The Making: The Concert’ at 3Arena

• Culture
• 22 Jan 26

'The Pub Landlord', Al Murray announces his 2026 tour

• Culture
• 29 Dec 25

My 2025: Ardal O'Hanlon - "The best musical experience overall was probably Rhiannon Giddens live at the National Concert Hall"

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Commentary

• Culture
• 13 Feb 26

History In The Making: The Book of Hot Press Interviews is second big HP legacy project this year

• Culture
• 02 Feb 26

Ones To Watch 2026: Actors, comedians, poets, filmmakers, designers, entrepreneurs and more

• Culture
• 31 Jan 26

New Books To Look Forward To In 2026

• Opinion
• 26 Jan 26

Education Special: Expand your horizons through these creative courses

• Culture
• 21 Jan 26

Billie Eilish speaks out against ICE, Trump Administration

• Culture
• 26 Dec 25

EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum back in full swing on 27 December

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Interview

• Opinion
• 08 Feb 26

Rob Doyle on Cameo: "I felt like I had turned fiction inside out, in a way"

• Film And TV
• 03 Feb 26

Tallulah Evans on Girl Taken: "There’s upset and devastation, of course, but it’s a lot more intricate than that"

• Lifestyle & Sports
• 01 Feb 26

Philip Doyle - Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest thrill? "It would be rude if I didn’t have winning an Olympic medal as the answer"

• Culture
• 08 Jan 26

Leon Diop of Black & Irish: "I do think it’s possible to change people’s minds. I actually think that’s more aligned with our nature"

• Opinion
• 08 Jan 26

Booker Prize winner David Szalay: "Joyce was definitely a writer who mesmerised me as a young person"

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Book News

• Culture
• 31 Jan 26

New Books To Look Forward To In 2026

• Culture
• 08 Jan 26

Leon Diop of Black & Irish: "I do think it’s possible to change people’s minds. I actually think that’s more aligned with our nature"

• Opinion
• 06 Jan 26

Professor Ian Williams Joins Chorus of Acclaim for Major Tech Expose, 99 Days: A Warning About Technology by Gerry McGovern: "Big Tech will hate it"

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Book Interview

• Culture
• 08 Jan 26

Leon Diop of Black & Irish: "I do think it’s possible to change people’s minds. I actually think that’s more aligned with our nature"

• Opinion
• 08 Jan 26

Booker Prize winner David Szalay: "Joyce was definitely a writer who mesmerised me as a young person"

• Culture
• 06 Jan 26

Wendy Erskine: "It’s interesting, the whole thing of exchange, transaction and money – it’s so central to the book... the idea of the monetisation of women’s bodies"

• Culture
• 20 Dec 25

My 2025: Andrea Mara - Best thing you saw online? "The Troy Parrott goal"

• Opinion
• 07 Dec 25

Miriam O’Callaghan: "I just hope people learn a little bit more about me – and think I’m an okay person at the end of it"

• Culture
• 25 Nov 25

Rose Keating on Oddbody: "I would start writing at around 8pm and then I’d stay up until 6am. I listened to music to keep me going"

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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
• 05 Sep 25

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

• Culture
• 08 Aug 25

FILM OF THE WEEK: Weapons - Reviewed by Roe mcDermott

• Culture
• 27 May 25

Bono: Stories Of Surrender - Father, Son, And Holy Ghost

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Film Interview

• Film And TV
• 23 Dec 25

Éanna Hardwicke on Saipan: "This film is going to totally reignite the ‘Who’s fault was it?’ debate"

• Film And TV
• 20 Dec 25

Jessie Buckley on Hamnet: "What Chloé did brought us out of our heads and into our bodies. It made the potential bigger"

• Film And TV
• 19 Dec 25

Oona Chaplin on Avatar: Fire And Ash – "It's an incredible gift to unite the world at a time when we are so divided"

• Film And TV
• 18 Dec 25

Paul Mescal, Maggie O'Farrell and Chloé Zhao on Hamnet: "You can't really have love without grief or grief without love"

• Film And TV
• 18 Oct 25

Cillian Murphy on Steve: "A lot of these people who are carers, they just give and give until the well runs dry"

• Film And TV
• 14 Oct 25

Jim Sheridan on Re-Creation: "Ian didn’t upset me that much. He wasn’t somebody you really wanted to be around, though"

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Previews-And-Trailers

• 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

• Film And TV
• 09 May 24

Bodkin: The first thing Barack Obama said when I met him was “You know I’m Irish right?"

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