Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
Donald Clarke
US ★★★★☆ Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Evan Alex,(...)
The Irish journalist, his wife-to-be and the KGB
Patrick Freyne
Not many Dublin residents' courtship stories involve the KGB. But Conor O'Clery, the former Irish Times foreign correspondent, and his wife, Zhanna, m(...)
Northern light: White Nights season in the Baltic States
June 16, 2018, 06:00
Our ship, aptly named Silhouette, casts a tall, faint shadow on the dockside as we pull away from Stockholm. It is White Night season, as darkness bar(...)
Irish trade mission to Russia discussed potential Crimean investments
December 23, 2017, 05:59
Members of an Irish trade delegation to Moscow last month, including a former top adviser to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, discussed hotel investment(...)
I believe my father was murdered by Turkish secret police
Eileen Battersby
It all happened a long time ago, in 1948, yet Filiz Ali has never forgotten the day two journalists appeared at her school to tell her that her father(...)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart and Salieri, The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga
November 13, 2016, 15:27
Antonio Salieri must be the most maligned composer in history. Rumours spread after Mozart's death that he had been poisoned by Salieri (without a shr(...)