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What brings the new generation of Irish emigrants to London, and what motivates them to come home?

The winner of Best Film at this year’s IFTA awards will appeal to the the audiences who loved the Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl

Plus: The Cork International Choral Festival has a packed programme of events and comedian Tony Cantwells new stand-up show

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

26/04/2024 - Pat Collins’ gentle drama surveys a village community in the Irish countryside whose way of life is gradually disappearing

"The landscape is quintessentially Irish with its reed-choked fields and drystone walls, but religion is every bit important a backdrop here as Catholic Ireland begins to slough off the authoritarian Church..."

Novelist John McGahern admired those in rural Ireland who were “above all, rooted in their own lives”. And yet, those roots are being disturbed, through extreme weather, globalisation and population pressures

There’s a bounty of 18 new releases at the cinema this week, while at home we enter the dreams of one of the world’s greatest directors.

BALTIMORE-based filmmaker Pat Collins said winning an award for his film That They May Face the Rising Sun at last weekend’s 2024 Irish Film & Television Awards (Iftas) was a ‘great privilege’.Speaking to The Southern Star, the Drimoleague man said the best film award i

It has been the fulfilment of a tantalising prospect: that filmmaker Pat ­Collins got to know novelist John McGahern personally while making the 2005 ­Ifta-winning ­documentary John McGahern: A Private World only enriches the former’s new screen adaptation.