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Culture

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Ruth Negga and Martin Hayes named among five new Cultural Ambassadors for Ireland
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'Sometimes being true to history you get as much flack': Historical drama Resistance's creator on annoying Twitter
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Ah here
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still to come
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Birthday Girl
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'I'll wreck the joint': The day poet Patrick Kavanagh threatened Dublin's booksellers
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Top Of The Tree
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RIP
'Generous, intelligent, larger than life': Tributes paid to actor Jer O'Leary following his death
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none too plussed
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it was christmas eve babe
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yuletide tunes
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distract me
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evening fix
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Soulsmith
'We made it for nothing, but it worked': After sold-out audiences and awards, this Irish film will screen on RTÉ tonight
21 Dec 2018
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Winter Solstice
'Remarkable archaeological discoveries' made near Newgrange passage tomb
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trailers
Here are Irish film critics' top movies of the year
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late afternoon
Irish short animation makes Oscars shortlist
18 Dec 2018
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In focus
Susan Wood's snapshots of Ireland: 'I love photographing the clutter of people’s real lives'
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commons sense
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column
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Event Guide
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stocking filler
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Opinion
Opinion: Should disabled characters be played by disabled actors?
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Turn back time
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Snappy
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hit the dancefloor
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Cinema
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legal eagles
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Improv
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Cringe
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tale of a trio
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state pathologist
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more than a game
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