The Irish Times - Features

Namia

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:41 GMT

CROBHINGNE:IN NAMIA tugtar airgead duit má tá tú bancbhriste.

Stewart Lee

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:41 GMT

Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, Galway

Kerouac's road trip too far

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:41 GMT

‘On The Road’ perfectly recreates the frustration of being trapped in a car with stoners, while ‘Holy Motors’ does to film what Jackson Pollock did to canvas.

'Radharc' - the best view in New York

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:40 GMT

An exhibition by six contemporary Irish painters on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan offers a perfect platform for their work – and especially so given there’s also a hot attraction across the road at the Met, writesSINEAD GLEESON

The Falling Song

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:05:34 GMT

REVIEWS Dublin Dance Festival:Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:05:34 GMT

REVIEWS Dublin Dance Festival:Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Looking Hot in the Heat

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:05:33 GMT

The sun appears to have resolved its differences with Ireland, so here are some colourful summer looks to raise your temperatures and your spirits

Give the mainstream what it wants, and no one has to get hurt

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:05:33 GMT

DONALD CLARKE CANNES 2012:Cannes gets a lift from the latest Brad Pitt vehicle, while Ken Loach continues to broaden his horizons

Dancing duels of place and culture

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:05:33 GMT

Several dancers at this year’s Dublin Dance Festival are exploring the no-man’s-land between where they come from and where they call home

Cocteau agus cultúr na hEorpa

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:46:52 GMT

BEOCHEIST: LE LINN na Seachtaine Móire i mbliana, dheineas mo mhachnamh ar an gCáisc. Cé gurb é bunchreideamh na Críostaíochta é gur aiséirigh Íosa Críost ó mhairbh (1 Corantaigh 15: 1-4), léirigh pobalbhreith chuimsitheach sa Bhreatain le déanaí nach raibh eolas dá laghad ag os cionn a leath de na daoine óga a ceistíodh ar thábhacht na Cásca. Ná ní raibh a fhios acu ach an oiread cérbh É Íosa fiú amháin, ná Iúdás, ná na pearsana eile a raibh dlúthbhaint acu le scéal na Críostaíochta.

What hits the high notes for juries?

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:46:52 GMT

Nikolay Khozyainov was a more than worthy winner of the Dublin International Piano Competition, but what factors can influence the decisions of music-competition juries, asksMICHAEL DERVAN

Riverdance: The Music of Bill Whelan

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:25 GMT

National Concert Hall, Dublin

Enfold her with the tenderness of angels

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:25 GMT

I COULDN’T SLEEP and I wanted a drink of water. But the French woman was lying on the floor in the lounge. She had insisted I take her bed when I came to visit. She would be fine on the floor, she said. And so to get to the kitchen I would have had to step over where she was sleeping.

The view from after the counter culture

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:24 GMT

‘I’M A 21st-century man,” declares John Sinclair, poet, political activist and one-time manager of Detroit proto-punk band The MC5. His name may be forever associated with an era of free love, anti-Vietnam protests, Woodstock and the underground press, but Sinclair doesn’t want to join the ranks of burnt-out hippies still living in the 1960s.

To every child I struck when I was a teacher . . .sorry

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:23 GMT

I REMEMBER HOW I would feel when there was a revelation about sexual abuse of children by clergy, here in the US where I have lived for the past 19 years, in Ireland or anywhere else. I would rail at the smug complacency of lace-bedecked monsignori or their mitred higher-ups. I could only imagine the plight of the children.

Doing Cannes, Midlands style

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:23 GMT

DARN YOU, Chris O’Dowd. You’ve brought the midlands weather with you. I meet the actor and comic – a native of Boyle, Co Roscommon – in a beachside tent that is struggling to resist a torrential downpour. Waves crash mean-spiritedly on the shore. Wind worries the tent-flaps. This is not how Cannes looks on the postcards.

Are these the best places in Ireland?

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:32:35 GMT

‘The Irish Times’ is on the hunt for Ireland’s nicest neck-of-the-woods and has invited members of the public to nominate their favourites. Here are four of the latest pitches

Artistic royalty comes to the castle

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:32:34 GMT

Lismore Castle Arts wants to position itself on the international arts scene – it’s latest show moves it closer

Haneke's monster feeds the beast

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:32:34 GMT

Michael Haneke doesn’t want to make a scene, Nick Cave mulls over moonshiners, and Danes get hysterical at Cannes 2012

Which-a-pedia?

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:11 GMT

An era of printed reference guides is coming to an end, with the news that the last Encyclopedia Britannica have been printed, and the company is now focusing its resources online. But how reliable and extensive are online information directories?BRIAN O'CONNELLtrawls online for information on three items

A city that has thrived against the odds

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:10 GMT

I live with an insurance worker and his cat, I have a little identity card that allows me to eat lunch in the Bundestag, and there is new graffiti on my street nearly every morning. Welcome to my little part of Berlin, relatesKATE KATHARINA FERGUSON

From the musical mines of Iceland

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:10 GMT

Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has scored several films, but his haunting music, as heard on his new album, ‘The Miners’ Hymns’, stands up alone, writesSINEAD GLEESON

Are we in Cannes - or Andersonland?

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:10 GMT

CANNES 2012:Wes Anderson returns, Jacques Audiard keeps things classy, and an Egyptian docu-drama based around events in Tahrir Square tries to find its feet amid the hustle and bustle of Cannes 2012, writesDONALD CLARKE

A Galway Girl

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:27:17 GMT

Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin

Gay festival makes its points personal

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:40:41 GMT

Gay marriage might be hot on the news agenda, but this year’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival emphasised the subtle, human elements of its dramatic selection, writes PETER CRAWLEY

Sna caisleáin

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:36:35 GMT

CROBHINGNE:DON CHÉAD uair le fada tá borradh ag teacht i scrobarnach na hilchríche.

Scenes from life on the Factory floor

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:36:35 GMT

Three years ago, directors Kirsten Sheridan and John Carney decided to create a collective space for film-makers. Having found a building, and kicked out the wildlife, their plans keep growing

Big days out

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:01:25 GMT

WEDDINGS, WEDDINGS, weddings – that old adage, “it never rains, but it pours” is never so applicable as it is between the months of May and September. If we have one wedding invitation on the mantelpiece, we have seven – meaning seven brides to coo over on their hen night (or, more likely, hen weekend), seven gifts to buy (or cheques to write) and seven outfits to assemble.

Devising a chaotic world for dance to live in

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:53:50 GMT

FOR ALMOST 50 years, Trisha Brown’s dances have been seen in New York lofts, on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses, or on the sides of buildings. It’s difficult to present an overview of that career in one night, but her company’s programme at the Dublin Dance Festival is probably as close as you’ll get.

The brutal and the beautiful at Cannes

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:53:49 GMT

A FEW YEARS ago, I encountered the British film producer Stephen Woolley. We had both just returned from certain festivities in the south of France. Neil Jordan’s right-hand man was still bubbling. “If you don’t love Cannes then you don’t love cinema,” he told me.

An Gairbheach agus gealta

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:05 GMT

BEOCHEIST:IS MINIC go mbaintear stangadh as daoine ar chéad bhlaiseadh leithéidí Mháirtín Uí Chadhain agus Sheosaimh Mhic Grianna dóibh. Cé go mbreathnaítear ar an scéal is clúití a scríobh Mac Grianna Mo Bhealach Féin, mar thuras spioradálta nó cuardach inmheánach an duine neamhghnáiche seo, cuimsíonn an dírbheathaisnéis sin cuid mhór tráchtaireachta sóisialta fresin.

The Horrors

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:04 GMT

Mandela Hall, Belfast

DDF: Nubes (Clouds)

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:04 GMT

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

DDF: Body and Forgetting, The Wake

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:03 GMT

Mandela Hall, Belfast

Jerry Seinfeld

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:02 GMT

The 02, Dublin

I want to be alone - but not lonely

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:02 GMT

I’m a great believer in solitude, living like a monk in quiet contemplation. I’m not so sure about celibacy, though – it sounds like hell on Earth

Fifty-two hours, 51 players - and then there were four

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:01 GMT

The Dublin International Piano Competition is down to its final four. So what does it tell us about the state of piano playing today, and where have all the Irish pianists gone?

A survivor's guide to successful snoring

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:01 GMT

Following in my father’s footsteps, whose snoring was like a hog trying to swallow a suitcase, I’ve annoyed many with my savage sleeping sounds

Drug habits that die hard

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:15:00 GMT

Drug-taking is not just a problem for the young; it has now been identified as a growing trend among older users.BRIAN O’CONNELLspeaks to some of them

Cometh the hour, cometh The Minutes

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:10:33 GMT

‘WE’RE THE MINUTES. Don’t forget it. If you forget it, I’ll go round to all your houses and make you not forget it.” That’s what Mark Austin, the singer and guitarist with Dublin band The Minutes announced before playing their last song at the BBC Introducing stage at last year’s Reading festival. Call it ballsy, call it self-belief. Either way, it’s working.

Ireland's best places to live

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:10:33 GMT

The Irish Times is on the hunt for Ireland’s nicest neck-of-the-woods, and invites you to nominate your favourite. It can be a town, suburb, village or remote spot – anywhere that, despite all the problems our little nation is going through, you feel supremely lucky to have landed in. The reason could be the neighbours, social life, scenery, the facilities or none or all of these.

Chick lit goes a raunchy shade of blue

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:10:33 GMT

THE PUBLICATION OF EL James’s e-book Fifty Shades trilogy has become one of the big cultural stories of the year. It is notable for several reasons, not least because James, a British debut author, has already been listed as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.

Emigration: the parents' experience

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:58:50 GMT

Emigrating is tough for those that leave, but it can be heartbreak for the parents and family who stay in Ireland, and one Limerickman is setting up a ‘social network’ for those that are left behind, writes CIARA KENNY

The original Japanese sci-fi story

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:58:49 GMT

Scrolls depicting one of the oldest Japanese stories are on display in the Chester Beatty, and their beauty, colour and format still effectively tells a very familiar story even several centuries later, writes GEMMA TIPTON

KIN

Thu, 10 May 2012 23:51:47 GMT

Liberty Hall, Dublin

My Best Friend Drowned in a Swimming Pool

Thu, 10 May 2012 23:51:47 GMT

The Cube, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Elvis Costello

Thu, 10 May 2012 23:51:46 GMT

02, Dublin

Between a rock and an urban place

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:57:34 GMT

Artist Mary Nally was struck by the potential of Inis Oírr for a festival where the visual arts, DJ-ing, music, design, architecture and fashion could connect, writes AIDAN DUNNE

How science is getting its groove

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:57:34 GMT

This year’s Dublin Dance Festival is hosting a symposium, Dancing with Fire, that will reveal some of most recent innovative interactions between dance and technology, writes MICHAEL SEAVER

Grúptinc

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:12:52 GMT

CROBHINGNE:CHUIR AN tÚdarás Craolacháin i leith RTÉ sa bhreithiúnas a dhein siad ar an gclár náireach A Mission to Prey go rabhadar ciontach i ngrúptinc, nó sa sluamhachnamh.

Ship Street Revisited

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:34:17 GMT

Ship Street, Drogheda

Music in Drumcliffe

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:34:17 GMT

Academy, Dublin

SBTRKT

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:34:17 GMT

Academy, Dublin

The Civilisation Game

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:34:17 GMT

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Any given Sunday

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:34:16 GMT

Make a blazer go the distance by knowing what to wear with it. Pair with a flirty monochrome dress for a leisurely lunch, with colour-pop jeans for a chic brunch or with statement trousers for evening drinks

Asians make their presence felt

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:34:16 GMT

It’s a tough task picking 24 pianists for the second round of the Dublin International Piano Competition – but not for the reasons you might think

Camera is a little too candid in New York sitcom

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:35:49 GMT

Lena Dunham’s new sitcom may be true to life, for a narrow white American elite, but it is too close to the bone to make anything but unpleasant viewing, writesROSEMARY Mac CABE

'Holy God, did we have no boundaries?'

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:35:49 GMT

Forty years ago, Horslips brought groupies, a famous truck, some curtains and a few tricks to a Tipperary country house – and recorded an album that would have a seismic impact on Irish rock, writesKEVIN COURTNEY

Aghaidh fidil

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:39:03 GMT

BHÍ SCANNÁN greannmhar ag Woody Allen tamall de bhlianta ó shin. Suite sa Ghréig a bhí sé, tréimhse na mórfháithe. Aghaidh fidil á caitheamh ag na príomhcharachtair ann, canúint agus béarlagair Mheiriceá an lae inniu á spalpadh acu. Bhí roinnt den chomhrá thar a bheith greannmhar go mór mór nuair a sciorr na maisc ó am go chéile.