Queer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitards
Books newsletter: a round-up of the latest news and a preview of Saturday’s pages
Television: US academic gained unprecedented access to leadership of Provisionals in 1972
Left turns and a sense of fun abound on Sean O’Hagan’s latest askew pop effort
Constance Keane explores interesting terrain, with pared-back production underpinning her ethereal vocal
For their fifth album, the two remaining sisters focus on aspects of womanhood and their disdain for the music industry
Aoife Barry: How do we make sure that the stories Ireland tells about itself on screen are not reductive?
Gallix is a gentle melancholy guide, more analogue, older, European; Oyler is nervily digital, younger, very American in sensibility. They are equally clever
Songwriter and three-time Ivor Novello winner honoured in hometown for leaving ‘indelible mark’ on music world
Television: Rising Tides, one of RTÉ's biggest budget nature films, does not sugar coat the rate of climate breakdown and what is in prospect
New South Wales police confirm no further action will be taken following alleged ‘punch in the chops’
Suzanne Fussey was a young hairdresser when she met David Bowie. It turned into a rock’n’roll life on the road – and marriage to his guitarist Mick Ronson
In The Sweet East, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has teamed up with critic Nick Pinkerton for a firecracker debut
Plus: Who is the latest pop singer to feature on a collectable coin from the Royal Mint?
Reviews: Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis; The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need by Adam Marek; City of Stardust by Georgia Summers; In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan; and Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
Glenroe cast members gather with family and friends to mark passing of Irish actor with music, poetry and stories
Booker winner Paul Lynch among new members of creative artists’ association
Sunn O))) compositions come at you like glaciers on fast forward, their Godzilla-like quality accentuated by menacing song titles such as CandleGoat and Rxanlord
Insights into Jarvis Cocker’s disillusionment with fame; The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s music and drug habits, and more
The ghost of Barnacle’s onetime sweetheart Michael Bodkin haunts Joyce’s literature in secret ways, the word ‘bodkin’ always used ambiguously