Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
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Richard Osman: ‘The worst thing in the world is someone telling you they’re writing a novel’
The star of quiz show Pointless on his new novel, being on telly, and why class is crucial
Fintan O’Toole: Jack Charlton allowed us to accept the English part of our Irishness
The two countries’ hybrid urban culture was a truth universally unacknowledged
Wild Rose: Rising Irish movie star Jessie Buckley shines bright
Review: She has all the talent she needs – a great voice, acting presence and comic timing
Mary Poppins Returns: Emily Blunt is good, but the film is average-alidocious
Review: This sequel, which is practically a remake, lacks the zip of the original
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun
Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun
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Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
British film director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97
Tributes paid to the Oscar-nominated maker of three James Bond films
How to say no: I learned to stop worrying and turn people down
At first, saying yes to everything was a boon to my social life and my career
Jamie Bell: I hope things are getting better for women in film
The former ‘Billy Elliot’ star on Durham versus LA, acting pitfalls, and women in film
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool review: An epic worthy of the title
A high-class weepie about a real-life May-December romance between actors
If I angle my screen, no one can see I'm watching Mamma Mia!
Why have you all kept this glorious megahit - featuring Meryl Streep, Greek slaves and all three kinds of man - from me
Fintan O’Toole: The love-hate relationship between Ireland and Britain
An Irish Times series explores Ireland’s relationship with its bigger, more powerful neighbour, our changing levels of enmity and amity and the small – yet vast – differences that define the two countries
TV review: ‘Doctor Thorne’ is a terrific romp, while cricket and GAA trade places
Review: ‘Doctor Thorne’, ‘Dunblane: Our Story’, ‘The toughest Trade’
Culture Shock: Why Irish novels are such a box-office draw
‘Brooklyn’, ‘Room’ and ‘The Secret Scripture’ all have unapologetically literary sources
Brooklyn review: a most unconventional conventional romance
A good Irish Catholic girl immigrates to New York but can’t quite leave the old country behind in this delicately understated period drama based on Colm Toíbín’s novel
‘I’m exactly what a rapist looks like’ - Tom Meagher
The Women’s Podcast explores street harrassment and interviews Julie Walters
‘Downton Abbey’ star Hugh Bonneville on working with Paddington
Tara Brady talks to the English actor about going from lord of the manor to friend of the bear
Television: Child geniuses, pushy parents and cycling dopes
Why would you want a child to memorise a deck of cards? And will Paul Kimmage get a chance to see the bright side?
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