Interview | Culture

Andrea Mara – Mad Hatter Q&A: Concept of hell? "Grocery shopping. I haven’t done it in 12 years and nothing could drag me back to it"
  • Opinion
  • 08 Jul 24
Andrea Mara – Mad Hatter Q&A: Concept of hell? "Grocery shopping. I haven’t done it in 12 years and nothing could drag me back to it"
On this day 40 years ago: Bob Dylan played Slane – revisit his pre-show interview with Bono
  • Culture
  • 08 Jul 24
On this day 40 years ago: Bob Dylan played Slane – revisit his pre-show interview with Bono
Kevin Barry: "The most intense mushroom experience of my life was on Barrack Street in Cork in 1989. I was fully convinced I was a traffic light..."
  • Opinion
  • 13 Jun 24
Kevin Barry: "The most intense mushroom experience of my life was on Barrack Street in Cork in 1989. I was fully convinced I was a traffic light..."
Ishana Night Shyamalan on shooting <i>The Watched</i> in Ireland: “I just honestly had the best time"
  • Film And TV
  • 11 Jun 24
Ishana Night Shyamalan on shooting The Watched in Ireland: “I just honestly had the best time"
Joan Collins TD discusses being robbed at gunpoint, her experiences with drugs and more – in a startlingly honest new <i>Hot Press</i> interview
  • Opinion
  • 06 Jun 24
Joan Collins TD discusses being robbed at gunpoint, her experiences with drugs and more – in a startlingly honest new Hot Press interview
David Nicholls on his latest book <i>You Are Here</i>: "I wanted it to be about how invigorating and inspiring friendship and company can be"
  • Culture
  • 06 Jun 24
David Nicholls on his latest book You Are Here: "I wanted it to be about how invigorating and inspiring friendship and company can be"
Scott Gorham on his recent art exhibition : "This is something I did on the side, it was more of a relaxing thing"
  • Culture
  • 29 May 24
Scott Gorham on his recent art exhibition : "This is something I did on the side, it was more of a relaxing thing"
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: "I'm not going to fit into somebody else’s artificially constructed culture war"
  • Opinion
  • 29 May 24
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: "I'm not going to fit into somebody else’s artificially constructed culture war"
Caoilinn Hughes - "How we think about the future is so different to how our parents thought about the future"
  • Culture
  • 28 May 24
Caoilinn Hughes - "How we think about the future is so different to how our parents thought about the future"
Anya Taylor -Joy: "I think this cliché of feminine passivity is getting quite exhausting, because you can’t gender us in that way.”
  • Film And TV
  • 23 May 24
Anya Taylor -Joy: "I think this cliché of feminine passivity is getting quite exhausting, because you can’t gender us in that way.”
The Young Offenders' Alex Murphy: "We made the original film for no money and just seven or eight crew, not knowing if it’d even be in the cinema"
  • Film And TV
  • 22 May 24
The Young Offenders' Alex Murphy: "We made the original film for no money and just seven or eight crew, not knowing if it’d even be in the cinema"
Mary Robinson at 80: Revisiting a classic <i>Hot Press</i> interview
  • Opinion
  • 21 May 24
Mary Robinson at 80: Revisiting a classic Hot Press interview
Andrew O'Hagan: "I like novelists when they live in the centre of ambivalence"
  • Culture
  • 23 Apr 24
Andrew O'Hagan: "I like novelists when they live in the centre of ambivalence"
John Boyne – Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest thrill? "A private lunch last year with Kate Bush"
  • Opinion
  • 18 Apr 24
John Boyne – Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest thrill? "A private lunch last year with Kate Bush"
Louisa Harland on <i>Renegade Nell:</i> "I’d never really done anything similar before – I can’t even ride a bike!"
  • Film And TV
  • 16 Apr 24
Louisa Harland on Renegade Nell: "I’d never really done anything similar before – I can’t even ride a bike!"
AHEAD's WAM programme: Helping graduates with disabilities take the next major step into employment
  • Opinion
  • 15 Apr 24
AHEAD's WAM programme: Helping graduates with disabilities take the next major step into employment
<i>Back to Black:</i> "I’m really proud of this film, because it’s got the courage to say the villain was addiction – and paparazzi"
  • Film And TV
  • 15 Apr 24
Back to Black: "I’m really proud of this film, because it’s got the courage to say the villain was addiction – and paparazzi"
Daniel Maté: "Having grown up around Zionism, I’m pretty conversant in the inherent shallowness of its premises. The things it has to ignore, the things it has to make up and fabricate"
  • Opinion
  • 15 Apr 24
Daniel Maté: "Having grown up around Zionism, I’m pretty conversant in the inherent shallowness of its premises. The things it has to ignore, the things it has to make up and fabricate"
Independent Ireland party leader Michael Collins on why he believes Martin McGuinness has gone to heaven – and how God protects us from the weather...
  • Opinion
  • 11 Apr 24
Independent Ireland party leader Michael Collins on why he believes Martin McGuinness has gone to heaven – and how God protects us from the weather...
Remembering Joe Kinnear: Revisit a classic <i>Hot Press</i> interview from 1994 – "The Ireland manager’s job... Make sure you tell them I want it!"
  • Lifestyle & Sports
  • 10 Apr 24
Remembering Joe Kinnear: Revisit a classic Hot Press interview from 1994 – "The Ireland manager’s job... Make sure you tell them I want it!"
Emmet Kirwan – Mad Hatter Q&A: Dying words? "I knew there was something wrong with me..."
  • Opinion
  • 10 Apr 24
Emmet Kirwan – Mad Hatter Q&A: Dying words? "I knew there was something wrong with me..."
Richard Balls on his Shane MacGowan biography: "I really did feel that weight of responsibility"
  • Culture
  • 04 Apr 24
Richard Balls on his Shane MacGowan biography: "I really did feel that weight of responsibility"
Dennis Cooper: "In <i>Closer,</i> I was really influenced by The Jesus And Mary Chain’s <i>Psychocandy..."</i>
  • Opinion
  • 03 Apr 24
Dennis Cooper: "In Closer, I was really influenced by The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Psychocandy..."
Rebecca Ivory: "My characters are a bit cringe and I hope it makes people feel comforted"
  • Culture
  • 03 Apr 24
Rebecca Ivory: "My characters are a bit cringe and I hope it makes people feel comforted"
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