Review: The 3Arena concert on Wednesday was the pop diva’s first Irish headlining show

‘Grace’, an award-winning novel about the Irish Famine, is this month’s Irish Times Book Club selection

Helen O’Rahilly’s witty musings about her Aunt have gained a legion of followers

By structuring the music around an orchestra, there is a remarkable freshness to his sound

Kicking the traditional pop bangers to the side, Grande lets her soaring voice meander

It’s not like being in the Royal Albert Hall. But, for now, it’s as close as any of us can get

David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland

The great American musician on his love of Ireland and the Trump song he can’t write

Eímear Noone, originally from Galway, will perform at the Academy Awards in February

LIsa McGee brilliantly selected her slurs and generalisations about Northern religions

In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside Dublin’s Central Library

Removed scene features Stinky Pete behaving inappropriately with Barbie dolls

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising Paddywhackery

Star calls for musicians to challenge social distancing rules at live events

Having worked half her life, Saoirse Ronan is finding her early 20s scary and exciting

Video: Watch the singer read Heaney’s poem, which was filmed as part of a series for Poetry Day Ireland 2019

Actor talks feminism, being talked over and saying no with fifth and sixth year students

The Mullingar singer’s voice is more confident and leads while the orchestra complements

That’s why this show is about Dermot Bannon designing a house for Dermot Bannon

Pygmalion booker says link up with Peter McVerry Trust will run throughout year

Three civil servants produced different options for temporary ‘exclusion zone’ in 1914

Video for Limerick band’s protest anthem is the first by an Irish group to reach number

Murphy says ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’ broke his heart when he first read it

What songs will the One Direction star play? Are tickets available?

As she explodes on to the stage, her current energy is as fierce as her past legacy

New Laureate na nÓg Áine Ní Ghlinn on her favourite Irish-language books for children

Danielle McLaughlin gives her reaction to her huge success and reveals her next project

Within hours of launching this week, BLACKPINK had racked up millions of YouTube views

Spain is not the right place for me, says Eduard Márquez, ahead of his appearance at Cúirt

An appetite for excess has often distracted from the rare talent and songwriting brilliance of The Pogues frontman

Television: Depp v Heard, on Channel 4, begins with a blow-by-blow reprisal of last year’s libel trial

Ad-Rock and Mike D on four wild decades, their friend Adam Yauch - aka MCA - and why they decided to write a book about it all

Allan Cubitt on adapting, ‘Death and Nightingales’, the writer’s 1992 novel, for TV

‘I am so lucky that I got to continue working ... this feels like a nice way to tie it up in a bow’

In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside Dublin’s Central Library

From The Lottery to The Loney, a look at a genre that explores the eerie power and sinister possibilities of nature and country life

Limerick, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford were also in the running for title

The band on lockdown life, their second album and Aidan Gillen doing a video for a pint

Irish star’s turn in Little Women pits her against Renée Zellweger in best-actress race

The pugnacious punk may well be the last inheritor of the wayward spailpín singers

‘Black 47’, Lance Daly’s film that addresses one of the most traumatic periods in Irish history, is a story that has barely registered on the big screen before

‘I didn’t see myself as a personality. I see myself as an actor. I think those are two distinct jobs’

Singer Jason Williamson on what Brexit has shown him and creating a new album during lockdown

Demand has been ‘astonishing’, with hugely positive response from retailers, says Faber

Troubles novel has already won Man Booker and Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prizes

As the actor turns 75, a look at her astonishing career in which she’s played cops, rockers, monarchs and murderers

The Great Hunger forced a people to abandon their past, both physically and culturally

Meet the K-pop sensation before their world domination becomes inescapable

Dripping with breathless desire, ‘Death and Nightingales’ offers a tense vision of Ireland

In the age of ebooks, these booksellers are proving print is still preferred

Martin McDonagh wins best screenplay; attendees dress in black

‘His ability to freeze the elusive and contradictory essence in a physical gesture is the mark of a great actor’

Novel set in working-class Protestant Belfast explores seductiveness of lust and violence

Jamie Dornan is in hero mode, while Mark Strong plays Conor Cruise O'Brien in Richie Smyth's gripping war film set in 1961 Congo

The House of Gucci actor plans on ‘taking a break’ after starring in 17 roles since 2016

Also coming this way: Death From Above, Damien Jurado and Spook of the Thirteenth Lock

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Television: Italian photographer Lorenzo Moscia’s documentary is a striking portrait of someone who lost everything

Niall Horan’s Flicker World Tour hit Dublin and and the reaction was someting to see

Matt Haig on life after depression, negative reviews and his new book ‘How to Stop Time’

The singer's family struggled with poverty after an execution in the War of Independence

‘I hope you get better’: Irish actor pays tribute to mother who is undergoing treatment for cancer

The actor on masculinity, Jane Campion and his new western, The Power of the Dog

Their books The Narrow Land and Constellations win €20,000 and €10,000

Shaft of light enters 5,000-year-old tomb at sunrise, if skies are clear

James Crombie, press photographer of the year, spent months chasing the perfect shot

Fintan O’Toole, in this appreciation, salutes a poet whose work is ‘a thrilling power grab’

Henge believed to have been built some 500 years after Newgrange

Is Jamie Dornan better than Donal McCann? Ruth Negga superior to Brenda Fricker?

Police say they are treating death of singer at London hotel as ‘unexplained’

Actor on how famous people are treated in different countries, his BBC Radio 6 Music show and how performing music prepared him for acting

Small Things Like These, based on Claire Keegan’s novella, is dedicated ‘to more than 10,000 young women sent to Magdalene institutions for penance and rehabilitation’

Alex Winter on friendship with Keanu Reeves, the risky new film and the fun side of fame

Fellow poets pay tribute to a cosmopolitan Connacht man, a unique voice in Irish poetry, who died on Tuesday aged 90

The screenwriter of ‘The Social Network’ makes his directorial debut with Molly's Game

BBC One viewers treated to a stirring rendition of the rebel song on the ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ show

‘The people who took Lyra’s life are part of the past and will never be allowed to determine our future’