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Does Kneecap’s Bafta win signal changing UK attitudes to British colonialism in Ireland?

Riotous Irish film Kneecap has attracted much critical and public acclaim since it debuted at Sundance in January 2024 as the festival’s first Irish-language film, winning the prestigious NEXT audience award.

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BAFTAs: Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt dedicates award to those 'fighting for their culture'

Rich Peppiatt dedicated his EE BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut to those "fighting" for their culture.

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Kneecap director picks up Bafta for outstanding debut

The Irish-language film that depicts the rise of the Belfast rap trio landed six nominations at the Bafta film awards.

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Belfast rap group Kneecap would be ‘very proud’ to scoop best British film Bafta

The Irish-language film, also called Kneecap, has been nominated in six categories.

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Baftas 2025: how to watch, predictions and timetable

The 78th British Film Academy awards are heading our way tonight – here’s what you need to know about the big night at the Royal Festival Hall

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How to watch the BAFTA Film Awards 2025 online tonight for FREE

Our guide explains how to watch BAFTA Film Awards 2025 free online, beginning Sunday, February 16 on BBC One, or on BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world.

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‘Comedy and art should push up against a line’: Rich Peppiatt on class, controversy and Kneecap

Ex-tabloid reporter shares how an encounter with Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan led to his acclaimed film about an Irish-language rap trio

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"Maybe Tom Hanks wasn’t ready for Kneecap smoking a joint on the red carpet." Kneecap brush off Oscars snub, announce Dublin arena show

Despite picking up awards at film festivals all over the world in 2024, Kneecap's biopic hasn't made the Oscars setlist

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Irish-language cinema has bright future despite Oscars snub, says Kneecap director

Comedy film loosely based on lives of Belfast hip-hop trio missed out on nominations for best international feature and original song

The Guardian - UK

Kneecap take to Belfast stage after death of member’s father: Tonight is for him

It comes after the group won their discrimination court battle against UK leader of the Opposition and former business secretary Kemi Badenoch.

Evening Standard

50 Cent among headliners at Trnsmt

The US rapper will top the bill on Friday, with Biffy Clyro the headline act on Saturday, and Snow Patrol on Sunday.

Evening Standard

"What a night. What a gig. What a f**king band." Kneecap's joyous, messy, and wildly celebratory tour-closing London show is further proof that the West Belfast hip-hop trio are utterly unstoppable

West Belfast's bi-lingual hip-hop sensations Kneecap deliver a phenomenal, rapturously-received end of tour party in north London

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Paul Weller and Primal Scream to perform at Gig For Gaza

Paul Weller, Primal Scream and Kneecap are all set to perform at the 'Gig For Gaza' charity show at London's O2 Academy Brixton on December 13.

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Little Simz and Charli XCX named on BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year list

Little Simz, Charli XCX and CMAT are amongst the 10 acts to have been named on BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year list for 2024.

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The Guardian - UK

Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

The Belfast rappers’ riotous semi-biopic adds an Irish-language twist to a sub-genre that ranges from 8 Mile and Straight Outta Compton to Patti Cake$

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Kneecap: raucous Irish-language comedy reveals lingering effects of the Troubles in West Belfast

On the face of it, Kneecap, the new film from writer-director Rich Peppiatt, is a fictionalised biopic of a Gaelic hip-hop group from Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK

Kneecap review: A sweary, crude and brilliantly political Irish comedy

The real-life hip-hop trio of the title play themselves in this riotous, semi-fictional origin story – which features a smart Michael Fassbender cameo

Louder

“Conventional ideas about love and romance are blurred, twisted and contorted here.” Fontaines D.C. explore love in all its beautiful, messy, euphoric and melancholic confusion on Romance

Dublin's finest band move away from post-punk and step into the big league on album number four, Romance

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7 new bands to live stream at Glastonbury this weekend – and when to watch them

Our pick of the best new bands performing at Glastonbury 2024 this weekend

The Guardian - UK

‘It gives me freedom’: from the Oscars to the Baftas to Sundance – why Irish Gaelic is everywhere

Paul Mescal spoke Gaeilge at the Baftas, Cillian Murphy at the Oscars. Films are being written in it, dramas acted in it – and rappers are translating drug lingo into it. Our writer hails an extraordinary renaissance

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Belfast rappers Kneecap on stunts, drugs and Kemi Badenoch: ‘We don’t discriminate who we piss off’

Their riotous music is uniting young people in Northern Ireland and reviving the Irish language. The punk-rap trio talk about raving, working with Toddla T – and enraging politicians

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