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Critics can't decide if Andrew Scott's Ripley is mesmerising or charmless – just as Patricia Highsmith wrote him

Fresh from All of Us Strangers (2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Rip...

Challengers: new Zendaya tennis film reviewed by an expert in the psychology of competition

"Tennis is a relationship," says Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) in director Luca Guadagnino's new film Chall...

Donal O'Kelly on Direct Provision, Daniel O'Connell and history repeating

Theatre-maker and activist Donal O'Kelly is currently Writer-in-Residence for Maynooth University's ...

Does Ireland have its own way of thinking about music?

Even on ‘coffin ships’ during the Famine, dance was present. Every Irish child learns about the coff...

Does Ireland have its own way of thinking about music?

Even on ‘coffin ships’ during the Famine, dance was present. Every Irish child learns about the coff...

Kaos rules - an expert in ancient Greece on the new Netflix epic

Last year, one of my child's English assignments was to rewrite a traditional fairy tale with one ma...

The rise and rise of Sally Rooney, and the literary event of 2024

Whatever else may be true about Sally Rooney, the fact of her success throughout her career has been...

The Rings of Power: season two is a vast improvement – and a meditation on the dangerous allure of AI

At the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins attempts to describe how h...