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Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’

The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre

Ashford Castle: Eighty years old and more gorgeous than ever

Tollman family have spent €68m since 2015 restoring historic castle to its former glory

Barry Fitzgerald: the civil servant who became one of Ireland’s first Hollywood stars

‘The Quiet Man’ actor Barry Fitzgerald described as ‘one of the greatest comedians who ever went on stage’

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 50 years on, it still works spectacularly well

Paul Newman and Robert Redford starred in what is still one of the most entertaining westerns

Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door

Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims

Quiet Man director’s love for Maureen O’Hara revealed in letter

‘Oh Maureen, my darling, I love you so much! Your face is in my dreams,’ wrote John Ford

Maureen O’Hara: ‘An Irishwoman has guts and stands up for what she believes in’

The late Hollywood actor grew up in Ranelagh, Co Dublin- ‘I didn’t take discipline very well’

The making of Darby O’Gill and the Little People

Walt Disney aimed the film at Americans with ‘shamrocks in their eyes’. He missed

The Wild Bunch at 50: Peckinpah’s symphony of wanton destruction ages disturbingly well

The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today

Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race

Re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, Dr Strangelove is arguably the most improbable comedy ever made

Quiet Man railway station opens to showcase restoration work

Location marks opening scene of 1952 John Ford film shot at Ballyglunin station, Galway

Yee-haw! Cowboy beans with roast chicken

Lilly Higgins: When her son discovered cowboy films, this tray bake proved a winner

Red Dead Redemption 2: Roger Clark plays his best game yet

Irish-American actor's role in Rockstar's blockbuster helped it earn critical acclaim

United provide a night of laughter, fun, and pure giddy pleasure

United were outsiders, daytrippers: what a change from losing joylessly to Sevilla

Never heard of Ariana Grande or Ryan Adams? Keep it to yourself

Why are people obsessed with sharing their ignorance?

We should the end the myth surrounding Cancel Culture

Memeing of Life: Proven accusations are not actually enough to blacklist people

Maureen Dowd: We are in a war over what kind of America we want

Trump’s genius for hate and division has driven us into a canyon that won’t be easy to exit

Brexit shows that idiots and incompetents are in charge in the UK

The lesson of the first World War is that terrible things happen to ordinary countries who neither desired nor deserved what happened next

Trump learned art of ‘riling up crazies’ from Roger Ailes

Mastermind of Fox News hate-breeding techniques provided playbook for president

Susan Wood: On My Culture Radar

The photographer on her run-in with John Wayne and her love of Grace and Frankie

Ciarán Murphy: Burke and Conlon primed for more summer fireworks

Both men had their moments during a memorable personal duel at Croke Park clash

Bosco, but for adults? As Buffy returns, seven more reboot ideas

Patrick Freyne: Freaks and Geeks,The West Wing, Friends – why not?

Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston

Donald Clarke on the film’s enduring legacy, literary roots and Willis’s breakout role

Dwayne Johnson: Can ‘The Rock’ save Hollywood?

The golden era of a film selling itself on its star is over – but ‘Skyscraper’ does just that

Maureen O’Hara exhibition opens in Limerick

Museum exhibition features Academy Award, red carpet outfits and costumes

‘Before Cong got John Wayne, Glencolmcille got Rockwell Kent’

New BBC documentary explores the US painter who first visited Donegal in the 1920s

Louise Brooks: ‘I was always late, but just too damn stunning for them to fire me’

The dancer, actor, gossip columnist and muse was one of the most modern of stars

From a brown trout to Rory McIlroy’s wedding: the saving of Ashford Castle

For years, Ashford Castle was in the doldrums – but a €75 million refit has put it back on the map, and it has been winning international acclaim and awards ever since

Hostiles review: A fiercely satisfying western of the old school

There is something of ‘The Searchers’ in director Scott Cooper’s elegiac tale

€120,000 ring and a cut-price Dior mink – Maureen O’Hara items sold at auction

Hollywood star’s jewels flew, but furs went for less

All wrapped up for Christmas with Maureen O’Hara’s fur coats

Irish Hollywood star’s emeralds also to be sold in €500,000 Sheppard’s auction

Bye bye, Bang Bang: a great Dublin eccentric gets his due

Plaque erected to Thomas Dudley, a playful son of the city who always stuck to his guns

Jeep’s grandfather clause - and the roots of the modern crossover

For a history buff finally taking the time to follow in his grandfather’s Normandy footsteps, there’s only one vehicle of choice

The superhero film of the year: Al Gore saves the world again

A decade after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ comes ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’

Glen Campbell: The sweet voice of crossover country music

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