Ben Elton: I was the godfather of political correctness. People said I killed Benny Hill
Ben Elton, the Blackadder and Young Ones writer, on his autobiography, What Have I Done?
Ben Elton, the Blackadder and Young Ones writer, on his autobiography, What Have I Done?
One of Ireland’s best known actors, Jamie Dornan is hatching plans for a more varied future in the film world
Tyers is on her way to becoming a well-known name in the acting world. The Cork star talks about her breakout Disney+ role, Bafta nod and more
From Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker winning acting awards for My Left Foot to the Academy singing Happy Birthday to James Martin in 2023
Co Down actor, who starred in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and in TV series The Tourist, joins F1 pundit Bernadette Collins and former SDLP leader Mark Durkan in receiving doctorate
Plus: What was the last film for which Meryl Streep gained an Oscar nomination?
Grand ambition to marry horror and cosy murder mystery dishes up sausages on ice cream
Michael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of UK’s Covid response portrays Boris Johnson as buffoonish and vain yet essentially well intentioned
Man wrongfully convicted of Birmingham bombings sees Belfast film with sharper eye
Locals in director’s home place celebrate film’s success and upbeat depiction of city
Kenneth Branagh takes best original screenplay for the autobiographical Belfast
Belfast’s Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds have been isolating in New York after testing positive
Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland
Kerry woman Jessie Buckley has been nominated for best supporting actress
Once a rank outsider, Coda has won best film from the Producers Guild of America
In ‘the curse of the early favourite’, Kenneth Branagh’s film has lots of nominations but few wins
Public and critical acclaim confirms that a hitherto untapped appetite is being satisfied
Kenneth Branagh’s film takes just one prize as Joanna Scanlan is ‘surprise’ best actress
Catherine Clinch (12) wins best actress while Moe Dunford wins best actor for Nightride
Irish actor Ferdia Walsh-Peelo among the award-winning cast for Coda
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For years the city has suffered from significant economic and social disabilities
Oscar-nominated film brings mixed emotions for locals as it shines light on Tigers Bay
Kenneth Branagh’s long-delayed whodunnit overcomes most of its problems
Donald Clarke: Here are 10 key questions on this year's Oscars nominations
Belfast up for best picture and Van Morrison nominated for best original song
Donald Clarke: Even Ian Paisley saw no contradiction in being both British and Irish
The film is aggresively apolitical but as romanticised reverie it could hardly be bettered
The Monaghan star on modelling, motherhood – and becoming Kenneth Branagh’s ma
The actor’s beloved stepdaughter, Nataasha van Kampen, died aged 28 in 2012
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast gets seven nods. Ruth Negga is also nominated for Passing
Movie has tragedy at its heart but more than anything else it is one of the great ‘city films’
With Belfast, the Fifty Shades of Grey star has planted himself firmly in prestige filmmaking
Hundred Years’ War still raging in the French and British Embassies in D.C.
Donald Clarke: Four out of five young people say they regularly watch subtitled content
The gorgeous movie features Jamie Dornan, Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds
The Belfast ‘brogue’ in Kenneth Branagh’s new film is stumping some US reviewers
She comes to Galway next month (kind of) in an adaptation of José Saramago’s Blindness
‘People are still up for challenging telly,’ says Sky. But ‘chocolate ice-cream’ appeals too
It has the makings of a gung-ho entertainment, but It’s hard to work out what’s happening
The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing
Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl
Much diddly-eye ballyhoo apparently adapted from a tea towel makes it through the fug
More films will be sent straight to streaming as struggling exhibitors go fully dark
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Audiobook narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day
Disney shares its eight-year film schedule: Artemis Fowl lands next year, Avatar 2 in 2021
His appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the 1990s made the son of Irish immigrants a comedy star. Then his life fell apart
Speedy Korean can ensure loss of Harry Kane is felt less keenly
Tánaiste welcomed Charles and Camilla to a Brexit-fuelled mutual admiration session
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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