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Adele’s contract with Sony Music tops the £80 million deal Robbie Williams landed from EMI in 2002 and would give her the best deal ever handed to a female artist - shading the £70 million Whitney Houston scored in 2001 from Arista. Photograph: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images Singer Adele lands £90m record contract with Sony Music
  • Music
  • May 23, 2016

Largest deal ever with a British musician allows Sony to release her future music exclusively

Novel about conjoined twins named best new Irish children's book Novel about conjoined twins named best new Irish children's book
  • Books
  • Martin Doyle
  • May 23, 2016

Sarah Crossan’s One, a novel in verse about conjoined twins, is the CBI book of the year. Louise O’Neill, John and Fatti Burke and Lauren O’Neill also win prizes

Alonzo King Lines review: Pure joy and energy that stretches the imagination Alonzo King Lines review: Pure joy and energy that stretches the imagination
  • Music
  • Christie Seaver
  • May 23, 2016

These two King dances ground themselves in tradition before launching brilliantly into contemporary choreography

Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach picks up second Palme D’Or Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach picks up second Palme D’Or
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 22, 2016

British film-maker’s win for ‘I, Daniel Blake’ leads evening of surprises in southern France

Latest Film

Ken Loach celebrates next to producer Rebecca O’Brien after he was awarded the Palme d’Or for the film “I, Daniel Blake” during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in southern France. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach picks up second Palme D’Or
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • May 22, 2016
It’s hard to pick a favourite among the many ludicrous sequences in this criminally misconceived picture: Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron in The Last Face The Last Face Cannes: Nothing can disguise the jaw-dropping imbecility of this project
Director Sean Penn attends the press conference for The Last Face at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in France. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/Getty Images Cannes Film Festival: Sean Penn fails to save face
  • Pericles the Black: a smudged antihero on the lam
  • Risk Cannes review: Julian Assange is back in the spotlight

Latest Music

Bruce Springsteen performs a concert as part of The River Tour 2016 at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, May 21st, 2016. Photograph: JP Gandul/EPA Attend Croke Park early for Bruce Springsteen gigs, fans warned
  • Music
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • May 23, 2016
Adele’s contract with Sony Music tops the £80 million deal Robbie Williams landed from EMI in 2002 and would give her the best deal ever handed to a female artist - shading the £70 million Whitney Houston scored in 2001 from Arista. Photograph: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images Singer Adele lands £90m record contract with Sony Music
Pink performs ‘Just Like Fire’ at the Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena on Sunday in Las Vegas. Photograph: AP Billboard Awards: tributes to Prince as Adele scoops five prizes
  • Joseph O’Connor: a letter to Bob Dylan ahead of his 75th birthday
  • Beastie Boys founding member John Berry dies aged 52

Latest Books

Henrietta McKervey: resolutely unsentimental when it comes to dissecting her characters’ feelings and motivations The Heart of Everything by Henrietta McKervey: A good book club book? Yes
  • Books
  • Kate Lynch
  • May 23, 2016
Several of the island’s staff were as badly behaved as the prisoners. This included the Deputy Governor, whose dismissal after a drunken row led to his eventual bankruptcy and subsequent imprisonment A history of Spike Island: home to Ribbonmen, Fenians and deportees
The judges said of One by Sarah Crossan: “Told in verse and in the first person, this elegant, sensitive story will stimulate reflections and conversations about discrimination, diversity, difficult choices and the bonds of love” Novel about conjoined twins named best new Irish children's book
  • Mike McCormack: ‘I had the canny idea of writing a long sentence instead of a book’

Media

If you fancy spending some time working dressed up as a Viking then auditions are being held in Dublin on Monday. Thousands of Irish extras sought for next series of Vikings
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ciarán D'Arcy
  • May 23, 2016
Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek in Bloodline Bloodline: a hot and humid family drama that rewards patience
Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) is back in Sweden for the second episode of the series next Sunday after an unlikely trip to sunny, warm South Africa. Photograph: Steffan Hill/Left Bank Pictures TV Review: Wallander’s trip to the sun does little to lift gloom
  • Galway Hooker boatmen remembered in new documentary
  • Television: Eight shows to watch this week

Screenwriter

Every Cannes competition film ranked and reviewed
  • Donald Clarke

From Jarmusch to Penn. We ponder all 21 films competing for the Palme d'Or

Cannes review of From the Land of the Moon
  • Donald Clarke

Belated note on the Nicole Garcia film that played to no great hurrahs in the first week

On The Record

The playlist – the sounds of the week at OTR HQ
  • Jim Carroll

Tracks for your weekend moods from Chance the Rapper, Bruce Springsteen, Audion, Overhead, The Albatross, Boo Seeka and many more

New Music – Mongoose, Bo Rocha, Lucy Dacus
  • Jim Carroll

New music hits from Dublin, London and Virginia

Stage

Dublin Dance Festival review: the body politic comes to the fore
  • Stage
  • Seona Mac Réamoinn
  • May 20, 2016

Migration and exile are unlikely themes for a dance festival, but they are clearly in evidence during the opening days of DDF

On trial: the poet Maung Saungkha is in court this week in Myanmar for a verse he posted online about having a tattoo of the president on his penis. He has spent six months in prison so far Why artists are uniquely placed to make a fine art of protest
Chattering classes: ‘The Birthday Party’ The Birthday Party review: All talk, low action
  • Big-time sensuality in Alonzo King’s ballet with no tutus
  • Ireland celebrates its 'adulthood' by putting on a show for the US

Film Reviews

It’s hard to pick a favourite among the many ludicrous sequences in this criminally misconceived picture: Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron in The Last Face The Last Face

 
Riccardo Scamarcio: big soulful eyes and fallen-angel demeanour grant humanity to the monstrous titular character Perricles the Black

 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up his new kitten at the Ecuadorian Embassy. It’s a gift from Assange’s young children to keep him company. Photograph courtesy of WikiLeaks Risk

 
Lolabelle: Only a heel would fail to smile at the footage of her being coaxed with treats into playing along with the Anderson band. Heart of a Dog

 
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The Red Turtle

 

Albums

Skepta: Konnichiwa

 
Andy Shauf: The Party

 
Mark Pritchard: Under the Sun

 
Richard Ashcroft: These People

 
Bob Dylan: Fallen Angels

 
The High Kings: Grace & Glory

 

Unthinkable

“Ultimately one is not going to attain the beauty ideal.” Photograph: iStock Unthinkable: Why are beauty standards becoming more onerous?
  • Culture
  • Joe Humphreys
  • May 17, 2016

‘You are not going to be thin, with curves, on your deathbed,’ says philosopher Heather Widdows

“What the hell is water?” Photograph: Thinkstock Unthinkable: Does reality depend on where you are standing?
Photograph: Thinkstock Unthinkable: Does the universe’s fate mean life is futile?
  • Unthinkable: Are public manners in a state of decline?
  • Unthinkable: Is all this remembering such a good idea?

Michael Viney's Another Life

Dominant presence: ivy’s offence is firstly aesthetic. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Could ivy create the perfect storm for Ireland’s ash trees?

The debate continues about the pros and cons of our most widespread climbing plant

Wood carpeting bluebells: “Falls of sky-colour.” Illustration: Michael Viney Falls of sky-colour: wood-carpeting bluebells. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Bluebells, boar and bracken
Bright eyes: rabbits were brought in for food by Norman settlers. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Reflections on one sad rabbit
  • Another Life: A tree without a bird is only half alive
  • Another Life: The case of the kneecapped bear

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks

Innovative: from No Colouring Can Deepen the Darkness of Truth, part of Alanna O’Kelly’s mixed-media installation The Country Blooms, a Garden and a Grave Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1994 – The Country Blooms, a Garden and a Grave, by Alanna O’Kelly
  • Catherine Marshall
  • May 21, 2016

The artist won the first Glen Dimplex award for making visible the festering wound of the Famine

New literary style: Roddy Doyle around 1993. Photograph: Nutan/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1993 – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle
Teacher and exile: Patrick McCabe in 2007. Photograph: Kate Geraghty Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1992 – The Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe
  • Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1991 – Untitled: Philippe VACHER by James Coleman
  • Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1990 – Madoc, by Paul Muldoon
  • Treibh
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Heritage
IMAGEX1COL_B_WEB Dónall an Trumpa
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • May 23, 2016, 06:45

B’fhearr glacadh saghas dáiríre leis, ar feadh tamaill

Hataí Áine abú!
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • May 23, 2016, 06:30

Dhá leabhar nua le hÁine Ní Ghlinn

Ar lorg Bond
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • May 23, 2016, 06:15

Tá an spiadóir is cáiliúla ar domhan sa nuacht arís

SCANNANPOSTER-_WEB Scannáin, ceisteanna Eorpacha agus siúl sléibhe ar chlár an tSamhraidh
  • Treibh
  • May 23, 2016, 06:05

An tSionainn. grianghraf: bryan o’brien/the irish times Uisce Éireann
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • May 16, 2016, 06:30

‘An t-uisce seo, ní anuas ón spéir a thiteann sé tá’s agat!’

Tarracóirí! grianghraf: eric luke/the irish times Moltar an tarracóir!
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • May 16, 2016, 06:16

Seo chugainn na tarracóirí a spreagann amhrán agus dán

TUAR_GEN_J_WEB Díolúine agus deiseanna
  • Treibh
  • Pól Ó Muirí
  • May 16, 2016, 06:00

Ceisteanna teanga ar scoil agus san aontas

Alan Titley – Iriseoir na Bliana. grianghraf: frank miller/the irish times Iriseoir na Bliana bronnta ar Alan Titley ag na gradaim chumarsáide
  • Treibh
  • May 13, 2016, 20:10

Gradaim do lucht cumarsáide na Gaeilge

Trúpaí na hÉireann ar dualgas leis na Náisiúin Aontaithe. grianghraf: bryan o’brien/the irish times Toradh na hoibre
  • Treibh
  • Alan Titley
  • May 9, 2016, 06:55

Dhíbir Seachtain na Cásca an gunna as polaitíocht na hÉireann

LOTABEGSTAROFINDIA_WEB ‘Star of India’ shines at Lotabeg in Cork
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 21, 2016, 00:00

‘House that time forgot’ opens to public for viewing

  • 8 shares
Bill Canning: “Victorian art has stood the test of time – the artists had great skill and could tell a story” Life’s Work: Bill Canning, Victorian art dealer, Kilkenny
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 21, 2016, 00:00

‘Victorian art is undervalued because it has been out of fashion since the 1990s’

Basil Bradshaw’s ‘Headland 2’ First auction of Basil Blackshaw paintings since artist’s death
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 21, 2016, 00:00

De Veres has four lots by Blackshaw in its Irish Art Auction

ADAMSINERIORSMAY222016VENICEPAINTING_WEB What it went for: auction results
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 21, 2016, 00:00

A court document dated 1775 concerning Elvis Presley’s Co Wicklow ancestor William Presley for €2,300

Martina Noonan: “I wrote a thesis on 18th century Irish silver which is my first love.” Life’s Work: Martina Noonan, art & antiques valuer, Dublin
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 14, 2016, 00:00

“I have a distinct memory of the intrigue I felt – aged about nine – attending a country house sale with my mother”

‘The Birds are on the Move’, with an estimated value of €60,000- €80,000, was owned by a former Swiss ambassador to Ireland, Guy de Keller. It dates from 1955. Two Jack B Yeats paintings to be auctioned in Dublin
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 14, 2016, 00:00

Previous owners were Lord Killanin and former Swiss ambassador to Ireland

  • 5 shares
DANSKEBANKSILVER_WEB Danske Bank selling its Irish family silver
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 14, 2016, 00:00

Collection expected to sell between €10,000 and €20,000 at John Weldon Auctioneers

  • 5 shares
What it went for: auction results
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 14, 2016, 00:00

A waxwork of Hitler for €15m, Rodin’s ‘L’Éternel Printemps’, and a record-breaking Basquiat

Michael Jordan: “The main question a collector or investor should ask is “what is the re-saleable opportunity of this item if I have to sell it?” Photograph: Dave Cullen Photography Life’s Work: Michael Jordan, MD of O’Reilly’s Auction Rooms, Dublin
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons
  • May 7, 2016, 06:00

‘People are buying jewellery to wear and not to be left in the safe or bedside locker’

ISTOCK_000072291767_LARGE_WEB RTÉ to co-host international audio-visual conference
  • Heritage
  • Hugh Linehan
  • May 19, 2016, 16:10

‘Urgent intervention’ required to preserve the world’s film and sound recordings

  • 12 shares
Tom Kettle, Irish Patriot, Essayist, Poet and British Soldier. Thomas Michael Kettle: an enduring legacy
  • Heritage
  • Frank Callinan
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

The myth and memory of Thomas Michael Kettle, steeped in both the Great Warand the Easter Rising, live on

  • 10 shares
Painting by Otto Dix, ‘War Cripples,’ at a Nazi exhibition of Degenerate Art at the Munich Hofgarten, July 1937. Photograph: Ullstein Bild via Getty Images Otto Dix, artist on the front line
  • Heritage
  • Eileen Battersby
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

Although he created some of the most powerful anti-war images ever seen, the German artist maintained an ambivalence about the conflict he volunteered for and survived

  • 7 shares
VERDUN_WEB Verdun: hell and patriotism
  • Heritage
  • Gearóid Barry
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

The story of one of the largest first World War battles on the Western Front is being seen in a wider context

Troops of the Tyneside Irish Brigade on July 1st, 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme. photograph: the art archive/ imperial war museum Troops of the Tyneside Irish Brigade on July 1st, 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme. Photograph: The Art Archive/Imperial War Museum The Somme battlefield: the longest 10 miles in history
  • Heritage
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

The Tyneside Irish Brigade of the 34th Division suffered some of the worst casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme

Portrait of Maj Gen Oliver Nugent by William Conor, commissioned by the Ulster Division Association, and which hangs in Belfast City Hall Maj Gen Oliver Nugent: The suspect unionist
  • Heritage
  • Philip Orr
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

The correspondence of the Ulster Division’s commander, Maj Gen Oliver Nugent,is a fascinating insight into tensions within unionism, and his oftenscathing views on his military colleagues

HAIG_WEB The Somme: never were so many sacrificed for so little
  • Heritage
  • Patrick Smyth
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

The battle of the Somme was a new kind of battle, in a new kind of war, and overall it would claim some 1,000,000 casualties

  • 10 shares
Chris Reddin at the grave of his Offaly soldier. Photo: Gerry Moore School project honours Irish fallen in first World War
  • Heritage
  • Gerry Moore
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

Students bring war to life by ‘adopting’ a soldier from each of Ireland’s 32 counties

  • 2 shares
Men of Royal Irish Rifles resting in a communication trench during the opening hours of the Battle of the Somme, July 1st 1916. Photograph: Royal Engineers no 1 Printing Company/IWM via Getty Images. One for all, all for one: first World War Allies agree military strategy
  • Heritage
  • David Murphy
  • May 18, 2016, 00:00

The deadly battles of Verdun, the Somme, and Salonika were fought in solidarity by the Allies to take pressure off each other

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1 If you fancy spending some time working dressed up as a Viking then auditions are being held in Dublin on Monday. Thousands of Irish extras sought for next series of Vikings
2 Bruce Springsteen performs a concert as part of The River Tour 2016 at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, May 21st, 2016. Photograph: JP Gandul/EPA Attend Croke Park early for Bruce Springsteen gigs, fans warned
3 Shape shifter: Bob Dylan as drawn by Milton Glaser for the poster included with the album Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, in 1967. Photograph courtesy of Milton Glaser Joseph O’Connor: a letter to Bob Dylan ahead of his 75th birthday
4 Adele’s contract with Sony Music tops the £80 million deal Robbie Williams landed from EMI in 2002 and would give her the best deal ever handed to a female artist - shading the £70 million Whitney Houston scored in 2001 from Arista. Photograph: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images Singer Adele lands £90m record contract with Sony Music
5 The judges said of One by Sarah Crossan: “Told in verse and in the first person, this elegant, sensitive story will stimulate reflections and conversations about discrimination, diversity, difficult choices and the bonds of love” Novel about conjoined twins named best new Irish children's book
6 Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek in Bloodline Bloodline: a hot and humid family drama that rewards patience
7 John McGahern’s From a Glorious Dream to Wink and Nod, from 1991, is a powerful act of meditation and reclamation, based on experience, and presented in that writer’s deceptively effortless style, at once intimate and profound. Photograph: Frank Miller Review: Was it for this? Reflections on the Easter Rising and what it means to us now
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9 Ken Loach celebrates next to producer Rebecca O’Brien after he was awarded the Palme d’Or for the film “I, Daniel Blake” during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in southern France. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach picks up second Palme D’Or
10 Jaclyn Jose as Rosa Reyes Cannes review: Ma’ Rosa. A hustle through the grim streets of Manila
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Galleries

Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) reacts to the camera as Star Wars cast members arrive at Belfast International Airport on Friday Morning. They are due to film Star Wars Episode VIII at Malin Head in Co Donegal. The entire shoot is very much top secret, with locals and landowners sworn to keep it that way, and access to the beauty spot is closed for the next three days. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Star Wars reawkens in Co Donegal
Ryan Tubridy emerges to huge applause, for the Late Late Show April 23rd, 2016. All photographs by Aidan Crawley Gallery: Backstage at the Late Late Show
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The Heart of Everything by Henrietta McKervey is a taut and compelling account of the nature of family relationships and the uneasy grasp of the past over the present
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Film Reviews

Lolabelle: Only a heel would fail to smile at the footage of her being coaxed with treats into playing along with the Anderson band. Heart of a Dog

 

Anderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, is an unmentioned presence in a sweetly sentimental tribute

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Andrei Tarkovsky explores his relationships with family and country in a ’75 cult favourite that is the very definition of arthouse

Journey to the Shore

 

Kiyoshi Kurosawa veers away from his acclaimed J-horror for a Buddhist riff on ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’

The Silent Storm

 

Everything about The Silent Storm suggests a screenplay was written entirely IN CAPITAL LETTERS. No “r” goes unrolled, no piece of furniture is unpounded

Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique in X-Men Apocalypse. X-Men Apocalypse

 

After 17 years the franchise seems tired, despite some star performances

Adèle Haenel: bizarrely deadened as a caring doctor The Unknown Woman

 

Jessica Fletcher had more angles to her personality than the protagonist of this passionless affair

Jaclyn Jose as Rosa Reyes Ma' Rosa

 

Director Brillante Mendoza is relentless in his pursuit of grubby verité, and his vision is worth enduring

Sônia Braga: robust, proud, witty performance as Clara Aquarius

 

Sônia Braga is brilliant in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s wonderful second feature

On The Record

The playlist – the sounds of the week at OTR HQ
  • On The Record
  • Jim Carroll

Tracks for your weekend moods from Chance the Rapper, Bruce Springsteen, Audion, Overhead, The Albatross, Boo Seeka and many more

New Music – Mongoose, Bo Rocha, Lucy Dacus
  • On The Record
  • Jim Carroll

New music hits from Dublin, London and Virginia

Screenwriter

Every Cannes competition film ranked and reviewed
  • Donald Clarke

From Jarmusch to Penn. We ponder all 21 films competing for the Palme d'Or

Cannes review of From the Land of the Moon
  • Donald Clarke

Belated note on the Nicole Garcia film that played to no great hurrahs in the first week

What is going to win the Palme d’Or? (and other questions)
  • Donald Clarke

The official competition is over at Cannes. It was a fascinating year. Are we going to see a turn up for two books?

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