The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the year
We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year
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Songlines review: Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy explores a painful history through song
Television review: This fascinating documentary from director Pat Collins is full of pride but also sadness
There’s nothing very dramatic about That They May Face the Rising Sun. Which is why it’s such a good film
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
That They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long time
An Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel
Making John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun into a movie: ‘I remember joking that it’s almost unfilmable’
Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novel
The Dance: Fascinating close-up portrait of a creative process
Pat Collins’s documentary captures the development of Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Mám
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Henry Glassie: Field Work – Quiet contemplations of creativity
Great Irish filmmaker Pat Collins documents the work of a famous ethnographer
Twelve artists elected to Aosdána
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
The artist on cameras, John Hinde postcards and Newry during the Troubles
Emma Mackey: ‘No, not all French people want to have sex all the time’
The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing
My fellow Irish citizens! What are you doing next Monday?
Monaco is filthy rich and hasn’t much of an army. I think we could take it in a fight
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
When All Is Ruin Once Again: Celebration of a simpler Ireland
Review: Keith Walsh’s documentary, shot in Gort, is beautiful but philosophically shaky
Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fire
The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art
What’s up and what’s down at the Toronto International Film Festival
Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders
A dull Goldfinch, two funny popes, and Scarlett Johansson’s broken marriage
Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever
‘I was going to vote for her, but then she said she wanted to be a swan’
In Conversation: Des Bishop and Sinéad Gibney
Dublin International Film Festival: the must-see movies
Films you should see at the tri-located 2018 Audi Dublin International Film Festival
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
Irish migrant psyche captured in cinema
‘Song of Granite’ says as much about the experience of emigration as it does about sean-nós
‘Rabbis were calling us up and asking us to stop making the movie’
‘Menashe’ director Joshua Z Weinstein on making his warm-hearted drama about a Hasidic Jewish community in New York, shot in Yiddish with non-professional actors
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Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson wow in Wonder and James Franco hits gold in The Disaster Artist
Song of Granite review: An intoxicatingly odd ode to Joe Heaney
Pat Collin’s Irish-language feature is awkward, original and surprising throughout
Rose Callaly: ‘We were touched by evil when Rachel died’
TV Review: Rachel O’Reilly’s parents speak out in Mick Peelo’s fascinating documentary
The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh
Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film
Galway Film Fleadh will premiere ‘Dunkirk’ and Maze escape feature
The 29th festival will close with a rare original feature project from Colm Toíbín
Angling Notes: Bandon anglers take scouts for big day out on Blackwater
IFI-sponsored event ‘very successful’ as 15 scouts shown the basics of fly fishing, water safety, fish biology and ecology
Leaving Cert economics and DCG: Topical and challenging paper
A popular design and communications graphics paper with engaging questions
Irish Lives: Inishbofin and the lure of that Inish Festival
Peadar King’s love of Inishbofin is clear from the weekend’s schedule of stimulating events
Clifden Arts Festival opens in north Connemara
Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights
Ireland’s Ed Joyce might have made his Test debut for England today - Fraser
England selector admitted that there isn’t a more in-form player in English cricket
Cracking the code of the Irish midlands
Cork-born film-maker Pat Collins is peering into the nooks and crannies of Ireland's centre ground. “The midlands are, maybe, more conservative. But... it’s actually hard to make an interesting film about liberals,” he says
Skateboards and see-saws: gripping art in Galway
John Gerrard, Howard Hodgkin and Richard Gilligan shine at Galway Arts Festival’s visual-arts strand, while Heneghan Peng’s giant wooden see-saw bench is a big hit
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