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Entertainment

Singer Dua Lipa poses with her awards at the BRIT Awards at the O2 Arena in London

Music News

Dua Lipa and Little Mix big winners at Brit awards dominated by female talent

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Top stories

Ellen DeGeneres. Photo by: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Television

Ellen DeGeneres says next season of her talk show will be the last

Canadian singer Grimes

Music

Singer Grimes says she suffered a panic attack following Elon Musk’s SNL appearance

Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series. Photo by Fran Veale

Books Premium

Eoin Colfer: ‘I want to write the next Schitt’s Creek’

Video

Ellen DeGeneres announces end of chat show after 19 years

Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan

Movie News Premium

The Hollywood A-Listers are in town again - here are the films that have descended on Ireland in the past

The film coincides with the 25th anniversary of the concerts.

Music News

Liam and Noel Gallagher to produce documentary about Oasis gigs at Knebworth

NBC said it will not air the Golden Globes in 2022 (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Entertainment

Tom Cruise returns Golden Globe trophies as NBC cancels awards over ethics and diversity complaints

Van Morrison PIC Kevin Scott / Belfast Telegraph

Music

‘Depressing rants’ – Van Morrison’s lockdown inspired album hits wrong notes with critics

Features and interviews

Lily James and Emily Beecham star in The Pursuit of Love. Photo: Robert Viglasky

TV News

‘People blur the lines’ – Emily Beecham on past difficulties performing a sex scene

Lesley Roy's first rehearsal at Rotterdam Ahoy Arena Photo Credit: EBU / ANDRES PUTTING

TV News

‘I’m hoping to do Ireland proud’ – Lesley Roy has first rehearsal of 2021 Eurovision entry in Rotterdam

Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series. Photo by Fran Veale

Books Premium

Eoin Colfer: ‘I want to write the next Schitt’s Creek’

Anthony Hopkins in his Oscar-winning performance in The Father

Movies Premium

Anthony Hopkins: The slow rise to movie stardom

Over to you: Lele Pons, host of Spotify’s Best Kept Secrets podcast, where ordinary people tell extraordinary stories

Entertainment

Normal people spilling their deepest, darkest secrets: why we love confessional podcasts

Entertainment

Arts embracing ‘new normal’ as cultural hotspots prepare to reopen

Video

Brit Awards 2021: The Highlights

Riverdance: The Animated Adventure debuts first trailer

Singer mistook cancer for bump caused by tight 'dancing boots'

Sir David Attenborough warns of ‘crippling’ climate change in next few years

Meghan: Women have had 'generation of economic gain wiped out' during pandemic

Reviews

Ardal O'Hanlon chats to Tommy Tiernan for his new show.

TV Reviews Premium

Pat Stacey TV review: Irish people and the connection to swearing

Seth Rogen demonstrates his acting chops with Sarah Snook in ‘An American Pickle

Movie Reviews

An American Pickle review: Immigrant fable mixes fanciful fun with heart

German writer Sebastian Fitzek

Book Reviews

Book review: Foreign crime fiction opening new windows on to a dark, evil world

Rory O'Connell keeps it simple on the show

TV Reviews

TV reviews: Quizzing and cooking are a recipe for prime-time success

Sing-along hits: Rick O'Shea

Radio Premium

Darragh McManus on radio: Counting down the ways to entertain us on a bank holiday

Captain Hocken (Alan North) pours Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) a coffee in a fake freeze-frame from the hilarious Police Squad!

Television Premium

Pat Stacey Opinion Police Squad!: A spurned comedy gem that rose from the dead

Books

Exceptional novel: Paul Perry has a knack of bringing the characters vibrantly to life

Book Reviews Premium

The Garden by Paul Perry: Risk, treachery and survival in the hunt for an elusive orchid

I know very little about orchids and even less about ghost orchids. But they’re to be found in Cuba and in the Florida Everglades, and the pursuit of these elusive flowers, highly prized because of their rarity, forms the subject of Paul Perry’s atmospheric and absorbing novel The Garden.

Unlikely triumph: Denmark celebrate winning the 1992 title.

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Euro Summits: From hotshots to underdogs, a fitting celebration of the European Championships

After a year’s postponement, our thirst for a major international football tournament will be sated this summer with Euro 2020 finally going ahead. Dublin was supposed to be one of 13 host cities, but the coronavirus put paid to that. It would have been the only Irish connection; Stephen Kenny’s national side has failed to muster a single win since he took over.

Lina Chen, who became an Irish citizen in 2018. Photo by Steve Humphreys

Book Reviews Premium

Diverse Republic: Immigration expert’s new book offers welcome advice

Bryan Fanning is professor of migration and social policy at University College Dublin. He not only lectures but has also written extensively about social change in Ireland and emigration.

Conor O'Clery

Books

The Book Show: Unique insight into the USSR’s complex past

in The Shoemaker and His Daughter, Irish journalist Conor O’Clery tracks the story of his wife Zhanna’s Russian-Armenian family, from World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union. In doing so, he also gives a unique insight into a country at a time of immense change, as Russia moves from Stalin’s communist utopia/dystopia, through Gorbachev’s perestroika (reconstruction), to Putin’s capitalist present.

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Gallery Before My Actual Heart Breaks: story of an unhappy Troubles-era relationship refuses to offer false consolation

Former UCD student’s debut novel lands six-figure publishing deal

Gallery The Sally Rooney effect: How the runaway success of Normal People sparked a fresh publishing phenomenon

New Irish Writing

Illustration by Clare Moran

New Irish Writing

‘Earwax ’ by Aisling Kearney

On your usual last-dark-hour run through the park, air slicking off agile pumping fists, ears throbbing from grit-teeth cold, you run past the woman’s body an hour before it’s found.

Patrick Sykes

New Irish Writing

Poems by Patrick Sykes

Patrick Sykes was born in 1991. His writing and translations from Persian and Turkish have appeared in magazines such as The White Review, Stand and Test Centre, and he was a runner-up for poetry in the 2020 Hive Young Writers’ Competition. He lives in London and works as a journalist.

New Irish Writing

New Irish Writing Podcast: Aisling Kearney reads her winning story 'Earwax'

New Irish Writing illustration by Molly Canning

New Irish Writing

New Irish Writing: Natalie Costello Ryan's 'Milf'

New Irish Writing artwork by Matthew Kelly

Books

New Irish Writing: Wine Street

Kevin Graham

Books

Poetry by Kevin Graham

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