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  • Soul searching

    Tori Amos: 'Anybody who is asking questons or throwing out different ideas is suspect. There's sort of a McCarthyism at play all over again [in the US]. But again I don't misunderstand that - what I found when I was touring around the country just after the attacks was that each place I visited, depending on how the place was made up, saw the attacks differently' As passionate and provocative as she is sensual and cerebral, Tori Amos is back with a 18-track song cycle searching for the soul of America. 'Don't call it a concept album,'she tells Brian Boyd p

  • Why the stolen years still hurt

    A scene from the movie Rabbit-Fence Proof, the story of three girls who escape and make a 1,500 kilometre journey home, following the fence used to protect western Australia from the plague of imported European rabbits. A film dealing with the government's 'kidnapping' of part-Aboriginal children has caused fury in Australia. David Fickling reports from Sydney p
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  • Cult Heroes

    SCOTT WALKER Singer/Songwriter: They weren't Walkers, weren't brothers, and definitely weren't British, yet The Walker Brothers were one of the most successful British-based groups of the mid-1960s. Noel Scott Engel was born on January 9th, 1943 in California, the only child of a wealthy oil tycoon. Perhaps it was his solitary upbringing that led to him later calling his band The Walker Brothers (he was by then known as Scott Walker, having briefly recorded as Scotty Engel). p

  • WebWorld

    www.antarctica.ac.uk : The website of the British Antartic Survey. p
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  • Exposing memory's limitations

    False Memory , the name of Willie Doherty's retrospective at IMMA, is an encapsulation of the recurring issues in his work, especially those relating to the recent history of the North, he tells Aidan Dunne p

  • Artists turn to space clearing

    There's one way of moving a property off the books, even if the last tenantcommitted one of the world's worst acts of terrorism, writes Derek Scally p

  • Dressed to thrill

    ON THE TOWN: A fashion show under Connolly Station in The Vaults set the mood for Hallowe'en. The event featured wild orange hair, black vampire-style dresses, slashed sleeves and ripped tops. p

  • Dance in season

    A Troupe of dancers will spend the next month touring with a new show, AutumnDances', which opened this week in Temple Bar's Project. p

  • Recipes for success

    Chefs from 14 Dublin restaurants gathered to toast their latest cullinary enterprise in an upstairs café this week. They each contributed recipes to a new book from Black & White Publishing, which is edited by celebrity chef Paul Rankin. p

  • Stormont with art

    An exhibition of work by Belfast artist Rita Duffy, currently on view in Dublin, will be hung in Stormont Buildings this December. House to House is at the Lead White Gallery, Ballsbridge, until the end of November. p

  • All back to mine. And it'll cost you a tenner

    ARTSCAPE: So, what are people up to these days in Ireland, anyway? There are lots of suppers with poetry and singing and chat. p
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  • Fame at last for the fan of happy pigeons Poetry

    POETRY: A few years ago, Poetry Ireland Review ran a feature inviting writers to nominate Ireland's most neglected poet. Logically, the accolade should have gone to the poet chosen by the fewest contributors, though James Henry went one step further and failed to get mentioned at all. James who? Even his name is confusing, making him look like a misprint for Henry James. The person we have to thank for his rediscovery is Christopher Ricks. p

  • Seized by a superior power? Biography

    BIOGRAPHY: The books of Ann Saddlemyer are landmarks: editions of Synge's letters and plays, groundbreaking histories of the Abbey Theatre in The World of W.B. Yeats, and a massive recuperation of the Abbey's most popular early playwright in Lady Gregory: Fifty Years After. She made Seamus Heaney's Field Work possible by lending him her Wicklow house in which to write it. p

  • Looking into who we are and have been Viewpoint

    VIEWPOINT: The new volumes of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing admirably rewrite relations between the literary canon and the worlds from which it came, argues Bernard O'Donoghue p

  • A story still untold

    SOCCER MEMOIRS: When the various parties involved in putting this book together agreed the deal it must have seemed safe to presume that Ireland's trip to the World Cup finals would be another of those good-natured romps enjoyed by Jack Charlton's teams in the 1990s. p

  • A game in proportion Soccer Memoirs

    SOCCER MEMOIRS: This is a book about a happy Irishman and an unhappy Irishman. The happy man is Niall Quinn, a not excessively talented professional soccer player who twice recovered from the sport's most feared injury, who drinks more than is good for him, and yet who played a key role in the Republic of Ireland's two most celebrated journeys to the final stages of a World Cup tournament. p

  • Poetic pilgrimage, absorbing illusions Fiction Files

    FICTION FILES: In his book The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind, philosopher Michael Oakeshott concluded: "Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat." p

  • Russian soul searching Cultural History

    CULTURAL HISTORY: A few years ago, I watched a curious piece of history unfold. It was in Enontekio, in the Finnish Arctic, where a major festival for Saami (reindeer herders) was being held and where, for the first time in many years, a group of Saami from northern Russia had been allowed to cross the border to participate. p

  • A comic cautionary tale for Victorian cads Fiction

    FICTION: Lazy, unhappy William Rackham, weary of his ailing wife and constitutionally half-hearted about life in general, could not be bothered to stir himself sufficiently to inject some energy into the family perfume and fine soap firm. He could be rich, he should be happy - but never mind. p

  • A subtle yarn in ship shape Irish Fiction

    IRISH FICTION: Dr Johnson once compared journeying by ship to "being in jail with the chance of being drowned". For the passengers in this novel's eponymous famine ship, the voyage is also a living Hell, with the horrors they have thought to escape continuing to torture them to their journey's end. p

  • Learning the tricks of the trader Business

    BUSINESS:  It is hard to believe that's it's barely over 10 months since we first heard the name of John Rusnak, the currency trader who almost broke AIB's US subsidiary, Allfirst. Rusnak had spent five years clocking up massive losses from his trading desk in Baltimore. $700 million minus the small change.  p

  • Paperbacks

    This weeks selection of Paperbacks. p
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  • Natural wonders: from the waters and the wild

    It took Mike Brown several four-hour round trips from west Cork to the wilds of the Tipperary-Waterford border to make sure he had the right place. p

  • Why this is a horse of a different colour

    ANOTHER LIFE: Among the marine bric-a-brac that has followed me around for half a lifetime is a dried Pacific seahorse, its colour faded to a nondescript, horny brown, the spiralling curl of its long tail unnaturally stiff and straight. I bought it in a shell-shop on San Francisco Bay (tut, tut!) and as a curio it has hypnotised the most fractious of visiting children. p

  • Horizons

    Saving species: Hundreds of delegates from all over the world - including Ireland - will meet in Santiago, Chile, tomorrow for the 12-day Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference. p

  • Eye on Nature

    Weekly observations and questions on nature p
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