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ON TREND: From Jack O’Connell’s viral rendition of ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’ in Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ to Irish band Kingfishr selling out a headline US tour, trad music is connecting with younger generations in a huge way. Roisin O’Connor speaks to veterans Máirtín O’Connor and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, as well…

With a breakout performance in Urchin, the actor has emerged from cult TV fame to the cusp of major stardom – a new ‘post-alpha male’ lead to join the ranks of Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor

Just give us the red carpet debut already!

As the star complains about critiques of his work, Julia Baird points out the privileged actor is already everywhere

‘The History of Sound’ stars Mescal opposite Josh O’Connor as two young music students who travel to rural Maine together in the summer of 1919 to record local folk songs

In Cannes to promote The History of Sound, the actor said ‘I don’t see the parallels at all, other than we spent a little time in a tent’

‘There are more actors out there waiting for a go, and for a chance,’ Julia Baird said

2/5 Despite the buzz surrounding the Irish actor’s romantic team-up with Josh O’Connor, this is a slight, sentimental misfire from ‘Living’ director Oliver Hermanus

A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadness