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Top Hat: The stylish Irving Berlin musical on its way to Ireland
Kathleen Marshall’s production, at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, stars Phillip Attmore and Amara Okereke as Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont
Sentimental Value review: The most civilised film of 2025
Beautifully played piece of highish-middle-brow filmmaking that makes the best of strategically staged confrontations
Christmas TV guide: What to watch on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St Stephen’s Day
Be it animated adventures, a ghost story, comedy or music, there’s plenty to see on the festive entertainment roster
The perfect little Christmas Day playlist: Louise Duffy, Steve Wall, David Kitt reveal their festive favourites
Making a song list and checking it twice? Some well-known names from the music world on their perfect festive tunes
The Music Quiz: Olivia Dean’s middle name was inspired by which US singer?
Plus: By which professional stage name is Dominic Richard Harrison better known?
Could Napoleon have changed Irish history? James Quinn examines the 1798 Rebellion
New book explores the battles, atrocities, and political machinations of Ireland’s most violent insurrection
The Big Irish Times Quiz of the Year 2025
Answer Eoin Butler’s 100 questions correctly and you could win an overnight stay for two
Marty Supreme review: Timothée Chalamet is bravely abrasive in Josh Safdie’s stunning film
Study of an insufferable table-tennis prodigy is an intelligent entertainment as generously stuffed as the greatest 19th-century novel
Elle Fanning: ‘Someone called their dad for the first time in years after Sentimental Value’
The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Sentimental Value, which is an awards-season favourite
The Land Trap by Mike Bird: uncomfortable truths about the ground beneath our feet
Journalist with the Economist explores our relationship with this ‘zero-sum’ asset: you either have it or you don’t
Reluctant pop star Chris Rea felt ‘Monty Python-silly’ in Slane but was beloved in Ireland
The singer-songwriter’s streak of earnestness elevated him beyond other hitmakers of the day
Anne Madden: A goodbye to ‘fearless’ Irish artist by Rosita Sweetman
Anne was incredibly posh. Very beautiful. Fiercely opinionated. Hugely ambitious for her work and her legacy
Chris Rea, singer of Driving Home For Christmas, dies aged 74
Musician dies ‘following a short illness’, statement from family spokesperson says
Around Ireland in 32 volumes: An island’s history, county by county
Series which began in 1985 concludes with 31 writers contributing essays on Co Antrim
Flats and Cottages: Herbert Simms and the Housing of Dublin’s Working Class 1932-48
Eoin Ó Broin and Mal McCann pay tribute to the Dublin Corporation chief housing architect who built 17,000 homes for the city’s poor




























































































