The 98-year-old walking cane, once owned by Michael Collins was by him as a gift to one of his drivers in the early 1920s.

American actress Chloë Grace Moretz has revealed she waitressed in a Dublin in preparation for her latest film, 'Greta'.

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest from the entertainment world

AN ENTIRE holiday home complex under the Caha mountains, on 10 waterfronting acres next door to movie maker and writer Neil Jordan’s West Cork hideaway, has come for sale, trading exceptionally well thanks to new management and the boost of the Wild Atlantic Way.

The 123 boxes included items such as film and TV scripts, storyboard and behind-the-scene photos.

Many stars from the worlds of music, film and television were lost in 2017.

He’s just finished his third movie and after five months on the road, Colin Farrell is itching to get home and just “be dad”, he tells Esther McCarthy            

Fred Astaire and Charlotte Rampling were among the stars of a film made in West Cork 40 years ago. It gets its first ever showing in the region today, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Hollywood star Liam Neeson has told how a horse-dealing extra in the movie Excalibur tried to buy his mount during a break in filming of the King Arthur movie.

Catch all you need-to-know entertainment news with Eoghan O’Sullivan.

His success as a movie maker is legendary but Oscar winner Neil Jordan is also an accomplished novelist. He shares his thoughts on writing, movies and life with Sue Leonard.

Cillian Murphy may be in the midst of the busiest period of his career, but he was still willing to approach one of his favourite directors to ask for a part in Free Fire, writes Esther McCarthy.

It’s the ultimate spoiler. Director Neil Jordan has revealed his shock at discovering his film The Crying Game was renamed at Asian cinemas with its twist literally laid bare.

A Beara Peninsula home offers privacy and luxury in a prized coastal setting, writes Tommy Barker.

Neil Jordan has lost his long running planning battle with his next-door neighbour, Robin Power, over an 11m sq bathing shelter.

Disney’s films can have a strong cultural impact, so it’s important that Moana continues the trend for smart, dynamic heroines, writes Declan Burke

Warner Bros. Ireland has awarded a scholarship to Miriam Devitt, an MA Screenwriting student at the National Film School at Dublin’s Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).

Polly Samson loves to write, but hates sitting at her desk. She tells Colette Sheridan why she finds the short story to be the ideal form.

Tommy Barker reports on a Beara Peninsula property which features an accompanying art gallery or guest house. 

Des O’Sullivan looks at sales of fine art and of modern Irish first editions.

Movie director Neil Jordan has fired a fresh salvo in his planning battle with neighbour Robin Power over a contentious 11sq m bathing changing area built without planning permission.

Our picks of what to watch on TV.

From Love/Hate to Once, Maureen Hughes is Ireland’s go-to casting agent. Esther McCarthy meets the woman who made Cillian Murphy a star.

A local authority has agreed to quash planning approval for a bathing changing area at the home of a neighbour of film-maker Neil Jordan, the High Court has heard.

Footage sent into irishexaminer.com by John Eagle gives a stunning birds eye view of the waterfall in the Beara Peninsula, near Adrigole, Co. Cork.

John Carney’s Sing Street is a hugely enjoyable music-driven comedy that’s set in Ireland 30 years ago, writes Ed Power

 

It has been 20 years since Neil Jordan's modern epic Michael Collins appeared in Irish cinemas and in the year of that anniversary, and the centenary of the 1916 Rising, it's the perfect time to celebrate with a reunion.

THERE is a poignant scene in Michael Collins, the 1996 Neil Jordan film, that shows Collins and Éamon de Valera standing side by side outside the GPO in Dublin in 1916 as they face defeat by the British army.

The festival once known as JDIFF (previously sponsored by Jameson) is now ADIFF, thanks to the involvement of Audi. But it's still the same celebration of cinema which we know as the Dublin International Film Festival.

As Colm Tóibín appears on the famed BBC radio show, Richard Fitzpatrick looks at the selections of Irish stars who have already made the trip

The Cork Film Festival is in its 60th year. Ahead of its launch next Friday, Marjorie Brennan pays tribute to the country’s longest-running film festival.

Singers Sinéad O’Connor and Christy Moore, writers Colm Tóibín and Edna O’Brien, actor Cillian Murphy, and artist Pauline Bewick are among leading figures in Irish music, literature, and the arts advocating for the abolition of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, which they say has “prevented our doctors and our legislators from providing proper care to women”.

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

Michael Neeson will follow in the footsteps of his father by taking on the role of Michael Collins. He will play the iconic role in The Rising, a new Irish film about the events of 1916.

A new organisation has been launched to promote Cork as a centre for film and animation production.

After packing his mankini for his trip to the famed film festival, Don O’Mahony selects some of the things to watch out for at this year’s event.

66 year old writer and director Jim Sheridan is one of the titan of Irish filmmaking, with a hand in productions like My Left Foot (nominated for two Oscars), In the Name of the Father, The Field and In America.