Ireland has submitted “Kneecap” to represent them in the Oscars international feature film category, making it the first country to do so in the race to the 2025 Academy Awards. The early — and widely ...

Language and the role it plays in shaping identity was a driving theme for writer-director Rich Peppiatt when he embarked on making Kneecap, Ireland’s official submission for the International Feature ...

It's a remarkably cool time to be Irish. Cillian Murphy has his Oscar, Paul Mescal wears his short shorts, and Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel is one of the most anticipated of the year. It was only ...

Derived from the real-life creation of performing trio Kneecap, this boisterous, politically minded comedy is a cinematic protest in defense of the Irish language. Bursting with unruly energy that ...

Sex, drugs and some kid blasting into a microphone: It’s still the most shocking, most fun combination of anything in the world, still the stuff that blasts each generation out of childhood into the ...

“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom,” says Arlo (Michael Fassbender), a member of the Irish Republican Army who learned Irish Gaelic during a stint in prison, to his son ...

They’re young, handsome, angry, and they want to get drunk and get laid and get high. Very, very high. Also, these gentlemen would love to have the indigenous vernacular of Ireland treated with the ...