MusicHozier at Marlay Park: Stage times, set list, ticket availability, how to get there and moreEverything you need to know about Hozier’s Dublin concert on Friday, July 5thBy Ellen O’Donoghue●Tue Jul 2 2024 - 10:41
MusicPaul Weller at Trinity College Dublin: Stage times, set list, ticket information, weather and moreEverything you need to know about the singer’s concert on Thursday, June 4th, which is part of the Summer Series at Trinity CollegeBy Ellen O’Donoghue●Tue Jul 2 2024 - 05:30
Subscriber OnlyTo Run the World by Sergey Radchenko: New insights on USSR’s approach to the Cold WarMaking extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century history
MusicRiverdance composer Bill Whelan: ‘I think we forget how important ritual is, and we’re losing it’Composer, arranger and performer on Riverdance’s effect on Ireland, contemporary trad music, AI and facing down eternity
TV & RadioA grim look at a broken Britain but are we in any position to scoff?Television review: Tim Harford investigates the reasons why Britain’s economy is in dire straits but many of these systemic flaws are equally relevant to Ireland
Gary Lineker’s ‘bald patch’ jibe hurt Frank Lampard - luckily, there is one treatment for hair lossUnthinkable: Here’s a three-step programme to deal with cruel comments about your appearanceBy Joe Humphreys
MusicThe Music Quiz: Colombia-born Shakira is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and ... ?
Hozier at Marlay Park: Stage times, set list, ticket availability, how to get there and moreEverything you need to know about Hozier’s Dublin concert on Friday, July 5thBy Ellen O’Donoghue
Paul Weller at Trinity College Dublin: Stage times, set list, ticket information, weather and moreEverything you need to know about the singer’s concert on Thursday, June 4th, which is part of the Summer Series at Trinity CollegeBy Ellen O’Donoghue
West Cork Chamber Music Festival review: Mesmerising Schubert, achingly beautiful Beethoven and lovely SmetanaThe Signum Quartet and the Chiaroscuro Quartet were the weekend’s highlightsBy Michael Dervan
Russell Crowe in Dublin review: ‘Welcome to the Taylor Swift alternative concert’The Hollywood star’s Indoor Garden Party filled the Gaiety with a party atmosphereBy Tony Clayton-Lea
Air play Moon Safari in Trinity College review: A sparkling nostalgia trip presented in triumphant technicolourClassy French electronic outfit played their 1998 retro-futurist album with an interstellar panacheBy Kevin Courtney
Taylor Swift in the Aviva review: ‘You know this but nobody does it like you Dublin’The exhilarating and riveting three hour-plus concert in Dublin 4 thrillingly confirms the US singer as an artist who comes along just once in an eraBy Ed Power
Cork actor Éanna Hardwicke: ‘There is a shift. Young men are more open’In his new film, The Sparrow, the Bafta nominee plays a character constricted by old-fashioned masculinity. His own generation is less confined, he saysBy Donald Clarke
Four new films to see this weekA Quiet Place: Day One, A Greyhound of a Girl, Kinds of Kindness, Eternal YouBy Donald Clarke and Tara Brady
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s comic gifts still in place but this looks to have staggered in from another century By Donald Clarke
Eternal You: Documentary portrait about the rush to digitally resurrect dead loved ones is scarier than any AI fiction By Tara Brady
A Quiet Place: Day One – Gnarly prequel is even more sombre than its predecessors By Donald Clarke
To Run the World by Sergey Radchenko: New insights on USSR’s approach to the Cold WarMaking extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century historyBy Seamus Martin
Homeland Insecurity: security trumps liberty as ‘terrorism’ is weaponised - a superb studyConor Gearty explains how terrorism is a noxious concept and the global north’s obsession with it deeply unhealthyBy Kieran McConaghy
A grim look at a broken Britain but are we in any position to scoff?Television review: Tim Harford investigates the reasons why Britain’s economy is in dire straits but many of these systemic flaws are equally relevant to IrelandBy Ed Power
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in JulySee Anthony Hopkins in gladiator epic Those About to Die, Lisa Kudrow in a reboot of Time Bandits, and the final series of Cobra KaiBy Kevin Courtney
Mother: Keelin Moncrieff’s new podcast freewheels through the mothering life in all its glory and goreReview: Mother is a reminder of the real need for this kind of cut-through-the-Insta-lives frankness, especially if you’re new to the parenting rollercoasterBy Fiona McCann
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning todayJune 30-July 5: From serious and comical takes on the UK election to a documentary that catches up with the Brat PackBy Kevin Courtney
Real Life review: a thoroughly unique, ambitious and lively showTheatre: There is not much of a narrative to this show, but that’s the point. The audience is kept on their toes by an animated and engaging castBy Jade Wilson
Anne Friel on her late husband playwright Brian: ‘I was crazy about him. He was everything’Rehearsals are underway for a new production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Gate this summer, and a new book about the playwright was published this weekBy Deirdre Falvey
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her dayThe artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspireBy Roy Foster
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her dayThe artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspireBy Roy Foster