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  • Incredible infrastructure

    Sewage-sludge digesters in Massachusetts. Is there really beauty in sewage-sludge digesters and landfill sites? The traditional view of our landscape is challenged in a new book, writes Aengus Collins p
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  • Echoing across the oceans

    On The Town Catherine Foley The voice of Delia Murphy seemed to echo through the halls of the National Library when guests to the opening of the If I Were A Blackbird exhibition this week joined in with the singer's great-granddaughter, Madeline Hawke, from Canberra, Australia, when she sang The Spinning Wheel. p

  • A good time to change position

     ArtScapeDeirdre Falvey New year, new jobs. Rough Magic this week announced Diego Fasciati as its new executive producer, following Loughlin Deegan's move to the Dublin Theatre Festival. From Switzerland, Fasciati worked with Boston Lyric Opera and has lived in Ireland since 2001, working at the Arts Council and Opera Theatre Company. Rough Magic artistic director Lynne Parker calls it a "a very happy appointment for us". p
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  • What gorgeous creatures our moths can be

    Another Life: On a calm night between storms, five little moths came to rest upon the glass of our uncurtained living-room window, spaced out like a squadron of fighter planes. Their undersides made them even more anonymous than usual, but size suggested the winter moth, Operophtera brumata, one of a handful of species likely to be on the wing at the turn of the year. p

  • Horizons

    Not just any old Iron: Last year, an exhibition of the bodies of four Iron Age men discovered in bogs around the country provided insights into life and death in ancient Ireland. Now the National Museum of Ireland is following up that exhibition with a lecture series exploring new perspectives on the Iron Age. p

  • Eye on Nature

    Michael Viney responds to queries and observations on nature.
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  • A glance back at the nation

    Irish Studies In 2004, when this book was in gestation, a globalisation index showed Ireland, for the third year in a row, as the most globalised nation in the world. It was against this background that a group of Irish and American intellectuals gathered at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, for a conference organised by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, to reflect on the journey that Ireland had travelled in the modern world. p

  • Thoughts from a life on the left

    Politics  I was first introduced to Michael D Higgins through the pages of Hot Press magazine. He published regular political columns there for 10 years, from 1982 until his appointment as minister for arts, culture and the Gaeltacht. His writing was always vivid, passionate and intellectually rigorous. He brought a welcome vigour and a radical excitement into political life, which inspired me - like so many others who came of age in the Ireland of the bleak economic belt-tightening 1980s - to become active in left-wing student politics. p

  • Not quite touching the soul

    Society The Patrick MacGill Summer School is held every year in Glenties, Co Donegal, one of the most beautiful villages in this country. p

  • Chinese contradictions

    China Last month more than a third of President Bush's cabinet hopped on a plane and flew to Beijing. p

  • A new species of scribe

    Anthology All Good Things Begin has its own beginnings at the Irish Writers' Centre in Dublin, where the writers showcased here attended workshops convened by the editor of the book, Yvonne Cullen. p

  • A genius of Gothic grotesquerie

    Biography Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was an artist and writer of extraordinary originality and prolificity whose Gormenghast trilogy, 60 years after publication of the first volume, remains in print and continues to grow in fame and influence. p

  • Hands that changed the barley

    Social History This is the fascinating story of John Bennett, the father of Irish barley, his antecedents, his remarkable step-daughter, Dorothy West, and their lives at Ballinacurra, on Cork Harbour, near Midleton. p

  • An epic savours a Costa win

    LooseLeaves Caroline Walsh The big surprise of the Costa Book Awards - once the Whitbread - announced on Tuesday was the win by little-known poet John Haynes. p

  • The theatre of the countryside

    Literary Criticism Somerville and Ross subverted romantic ideology and provided "alternative visions of a picturesque Ireland". p

  • Less than epic

    Fiction Everything, including several kitchen sinks, contribute to the immense, if less than epic cartoon that amounts to Thomas Pynchon's latest meandering free-for-all, his first in a decade. p

  • The guns and how they got here

    History One of the most experienced journalists in the country, Sean Boyne has done us all a service by distilling the dramatic and disturbing saga of recent Irish gunrunning into a single volume. p

  • Paperbacks

    A selection of paperbacks reviewed p
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  • Ablaze with Oirish cliches

    TV Review Hilary Fannin 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my arse," barked the glowering and uncultivated Mr Killigan (Daragh O'Malley), the nouveau-riche "Paddy" property developer, bruising his brandy and digging his inelegant heels into his shagpile while the head of the "cold case" unit, "maverick high-flyer" Dr Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), arched a quizzical eyebrow and backed towards the door. p

  • New shows for the new year? No chance

    Radio Review Bernice Harrison Back from the Christmas break and there's a same-old same-old feeling about the radio schedules. On TV the schedulers embrace the Januaryishness of it all - a trolley-load of fight-the-flab programmes, new series on every station and ever more daft programmes scraping the bottom of the celebrity barrel. p

  • I'm loathing angels instead

    Present Tense Shane Hegarty The brochure for my local secondary school's night classes arrived in the house during the week. And there, alongside motorcycle maintenance and wine tasting, was an eight-week "workshop" in Angel Therapy. p
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