Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’
The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands
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Hamnet review: Five stars for Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s devastating film
In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on their new film Hamnet: ‘I only want to make films as brave and as human as this’
Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews
Ruff justice: is Shakespeare being cancelled?
Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert
The Irish Times view on Shakespeare and the Leaving Cert: hang on to the Bard
Why would any educatior wish to reduce exposure to
And then there were three – the presidential candidates set off on the campaign trail
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
I’m sorry if reading Shakespeare is getting in the way of your kayaking lessons
What kind of 'experience' do we expect our students of English literature to have if not reading Shakespeare?
To be or not to be? Why it is time to drop Shakespeare’s compulsory status in Leaving Cert
Raising one writer above all not only feels outdated but is a dangerous concept to exist unchallenged in our education system
Hamlet starring actors with Down syndrome: ‘It profoundly reconfigures the meaning of to be or not to be?’
Chela De Ferrari is bringing a new vision of Shakespeare’s play to Dublin
Malachy Clerkin: I cannot wait for Lions tour, but why does rugby always feel this need for overblown nonsense?
Beauty of a Lions tour is its unique one-moment-in-time energy – sell that instead of all the tired battleworn guff
‘Maybe Elon Musk is quite gullible. He seems to fall for a lot of conspiracy theories’
Helen Lewis discusses her new book, The Genius Myth, which sets out to unravel the mystery of what we mean when we call someone a genius
Juliet & Romeo review: Never was a story more woeful
Bogart brothers’ variation on Shakespeare’s play is dull, bland and full of dreary sub-boyband ballads
Dave Hannigan: A trip to England offered my American sons a lesson on Irish history
Lessons in football heritage, Irish history and globalisation in Middle England
Bits of history: more slivers emerge of Scotland’s sacred Stone of Destiny
Ancient venerated slab is linked to monarchs from Edward ‘Longshanks’ to real-life Scottish king Macbeth, also subject of a new exhibition
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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