As the Zurich Portrait Prize comes to Cork for the first time, Ellie O’Byrne hears how our definition of the genre has expanded in the modern age

Well-known figures such as Fiona Shaw, Joe Duffy and Sonia O’Sullivan tell Richard Fitzpatrick about the reads they’ve been most impressed with in 2019.

So that’s nearly Tuesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

So that’s Sunday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Cork actress Fiona Shaw has won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in BBC thriller Killing Eve.

While the return of Alan Partridge has led to household splits not seen since the Civil War (for the record, we’re former loyalists who’ve gone over to the anti-Coogan side), one show for your diaries next week should be series two of Fleabag (Monday, BBC Two).

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A new book celebrates the pioneering educators who founded Cork’s Scoil Mhuire, writes Ellie O’Byrne, where past pupils include actress Fiona Shaw, knitwear designer Bébhinn Marten and TV presenter Clodagh McKenna.

Some of the world’s biggest names in Hollywood are currently filming on these shores as a wave of movie and TV productions get underway.

Eileen O’Shea is from Killarney but has been living in Cork for the past three years. She is programme and events manager at St Peter’s on North Main Street.

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Five of the best things happening this week

Des O’Driscoll shares his top tips for upcoming events

 

Rose Martin looks at design news, colour ideas, and delicious new bed linen from a national treasure.

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Shane Casey is from Cork and stars in The Young Offenders, in cinemas from tomorrow, September 16. He has also been touring with God Bless The Child, finishing its current run tonight at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

As well as a production of La Traviata, Cork composer/conductor John O’Brien has a number of other projects on the way, he tells Jo Kerrigan

Consideration of the arts takes up 600 words in a 160-page programme for government, writes Gerard Howlin

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After 30 years in UCC, Mel Mercier has now taken up a post in University of Limerick, writes Colette Sheridan

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

Love/Hate actor John Connors features in I Am Traveller on RTÉ2 on Thursday.

Cork actress Fiona Shaw fronts a documentary that aims to undo the airbrushing of women’s role from the Easter Rising, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Written and composed by Irish songwriter, Brian Flanagan, ‘The Rising’ is performed by Michael Flatley who narrates a hauntingly beautiful depiction of the heroes of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Cork actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is to play political activist Pádraig Pearse in a film about the Easter Rising 1916.

Next year marks the centenary of the 1916 rising, with a huge number of events planned to celebrate the beginning of the march towards the emancipation of Ireland. That will also include work on the big and small screen.

Cara O’Sullivan is from the Lough area of Cork, and sings at Live at St Luke’s on Sunday. She will perform Richard Strauss and Samuel Barber songs in the first half, and operatic arias in the second half, including Puccini’s ‘One fine Day’ from Madame Butterfly.

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Dermot O'Leary hosts highlights from a celebration of the Irish music tradition and its dialogue with Britain in the presence of the president of Ireland and the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent at the Royal Albert Hall on BBC4 at 8pm.

Martin McGuinness has heaped praise on Britain’s Queen for the way she influences the peace process.

It’s official. Amy and Brian really are our Kate and Wills.

Interviewing Fiona Shaw and Cillian Murphy was no problem, writes Sophie Gray, 12.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight for The People's Debate with Vincent Browne. The motion for debate tonight is “The liberation of women in Ireland has yet to be accomplished."

Lisa Hannigan, Glen Hansard, Conor O'Brien and Paul Brady are all to participate in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of President Michael D Higgins state visit to England.

CD: Johnny Cash

HAVING served as director of Project Arts Centre for ten years, Willie White took the reins of the Dublin Theatre Festival in late 2011. He didn’t have to travel very far. The festival offices are located just a few yards from the Project in Temple Bar. But conceptually, the distance between the two jobs is more of a jump.

Next weekend’s concert at the Olympia honours the musician, says Ed Power