We're delighted to present an extract from The Godmothers, the latest novel by bestselling Australian author Monica Mc Inerney, a family drama set in Australia, Scotland, Ireland and England.
Welcome to your Bluffers Guide To Soul, the hopeful beginnings of a musical journey through influential genres and artists...
Streaming giant Netflix has spent gazillions making movies, with little of quality to show for it
Producer Anne Clarke on experiencing live performance for first time since pandemic
Billy Idol among those to pay tribute to ‘all-time great’ who had cancer for over two years
Marin Alsop is one of the world's most acclaimed conductors, a guest tutor on the National Concert Hall's award-winning Female Conductor Programme...
The Oprah Winfrey Magazine has published a list of their top 25 Irish books to their readers.... let's look at what books made the list...
Irish National Opera's 20 Shots of Opera series features 20 new compact operas from composers in Ireland...
The mark the third anniversary of the death of Dolores O'Riordan, we're re-running our tribute to the sorely missed Limerick singer
Review: WandaVision is a mystery, a satire and a love letter to the great American sitcom
Born in the East End of London, and raised in Waterford, entrepreneur Charlotte Matabaro features in episode 2 of Behind the Truth.
Stephen King's epic 1978 novel described a band of survivors in a world that had been turned upside down and inside out by a pandemic...
Sleaford Mods create vivid and evocative pen pictures of modern life like no other band
Film review: 1962’s Novocherkassk massacre was the ultimate betrayal of the Russian revolution
An obvious recalibration in their second album won’t do the band a bit of harm
Plus: James Stewart and Hitchcock, a missing Saturday Night Fever song and Schitt’s Creek casting
Review: This sophisticated imagined conversation between Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke works hard to shake off its theatrical roots
Dear Comrades!, MLK/FBI, One Night in Miami, Stardust
You never quite know which way any of these songs are going to swing
The week's radio shows let survivors set records straight, share their anger and ask crucial questions
Inspiration is the topic on this week's Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio One
US actor’s decision comes after explicit messages allegedly sent by him were leaked online
Beat the January blues with some classic box sets on the RTE Player.....
Film review: More than five decades on, Sam Polland’s documentary is alarming
Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows
Film review: Johnny Flynn’s enigmatic performance anchors this David Bowie movie
Irish rock band personally booked by CBS talkshow host, who ‘absolutely loves’ the group
Middle-Earth to return to the screen with Amazon drawing on The Silmarillion for big budget show
My Story My Song one of the musical highlights of the First Fortnight festival takes place online this Sunday 17th January.
Big names, Oscar contenders and everything from westerns to romcoms will hit the small screen this year
Dear Gay is a major new documentary for RTÉ One, which aims to tell some of the myriad stories behind the tens of thousands of letters that were written to Gay over his 60 years in broadcasting.
In honour of The Irish Times Health Month, a special quiz on medically relatable music
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Fargo, season four review: Kerry actor Jessie Buckley is chilling as psychokiller Nurse Mayflower
From David Copperfield to Paul Daniels, the trick is as iconic as pulling a rabbit from a hat
The scene-stealing star on her journey from Paris prank show to co-stardom with Matt Damon
TV review: Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan used marriage-equality laws in a novel way
TV review: With constant flashbacks and a labyrinthine storyline, it’s a sweltering muddle
Gorillas in the Mist director worked on variety of projects including Coronation Street
Actor and ex-Californian governor likens last week’s storming of US Capitol to Kristallnacht
The revival will be called And Just Like That, but Kim Cattrall will not be involved
YouTube class Get Buzzin’ With Bez is a bid to help him and public ‘get fit and mentally happier’
Let the Rest of the World Go By, Pembrokeshire Murders, All Walks of Life, Servant
To mark the fifth anniversary of David Bowie's death, a special music quiz on all things Ziggy
Its prose is flat, design rudimentary, but Wikipedia remains a triumph of human ingenuity
Film-maker was also known for Up documentaries and for directing Bond film
Hugh Linehan: The New Year’s Eve rape joke was less satire than a failure of imagination
The abundance of Irish words to describe every element of marine life is staggering
Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach
The London actor plays a woman who loses her baby in the hard-hitting Pieces of a Woman
Singer Jason Williamson on what Brexit has shown him and creating a new album during lockdown
Filmmaker Donal Moloney writes for Culture about his new documentary Let the Rest of the World Go By, which receives its TV premiere on Monday, January 11th on RTÉ One.
Plus: tying the title, novels by actors, a first time song, the three wives of who?
Dramas Pieces of a Woman and Two Ways Home, docs Robin’s Wish and Mother
Newly released files detail role of Birmingham gangs in the War of Independence
Volume one of Gibb Brothers’ songbook with Nashville twist
Film review: This documentary sets the record straight on the actor’s last days
This is mightily flimsy stuff, more suited to local radio. But, against the odds, it works
Acoustic tracks fly higher and louder thanks to added oomph of production techniques
Baltimore singer’s tender falsetto is leavened by a moderate grittiness
Review: Documentary questions ethics of outsourcing care and economic disparity between Thailand and the West
Review: Tanna Frederick is terrific in a film about mental illness that avoids preachiness
Kilkenny's Set Theatre has weathered the storm facing Ireland's live venues, conceptualising, filming, and editing a series of unique concert films showcasing the sheer breath of our island's creative forces...