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  • Film that looks like a dream

    'Some of my most creative acts can come from misunderstandings,' says Michel Gondry, director of The Science of Sleep, starring Gael García Bernal, above French director Michel Gondry exorcises his demons through his complex, captivating films. It's better than therapy, he tells Donald Clarke. p

  • The Abbey gatekeeper

    Guarding the legacy: Abbey Theatre director Fiach MacConghail with posters from Abbey and Peacock productions behind him. Halfway through his first three years as director of the Abbey Theatre, Fiach MacConghail sees his role as 'curatorial' and believes every Irish person has a say in the future of the National Theatre, he tells Fintan O'Toole p

  • Delay reaction: Abbey on the move

    Fiach MacConghail is disarmingly frank about the long delays in bringing to fruition the plans for a new Abbey Theatre building: "Were I to inherit a building that would open tomorrow, we would not be ready for it. I'm glad it's not happening now." p

  • Build them up and knock them down

    Culture Shock: We use our great writers as a unique selling point, but we can't even be bothered to preserve the houses they lived in. p
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  • New ways with an old story

    OnTheTown:   A flock of exotic-looking birds, a number of purple orcs and some chocolate hearts gathered on St Valentine's Night at Dublin's RHA Gallery to hear details of the upcoming St Patrick's Festival. p

  • Laughing at Flann and 'Father Ted'

    ArtScape:  Contrasting strands of Irish comedy are being celebrated in a couple of different events over the coming weeks. p
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  • Irish at home in Canada

    A determined military officer is planning to build a 60-acre Gaeltacht in Ontario to help keep alive a centuries-old Irish language tradition, writes Seán O'Driscoll. p

  • Nature changing to the human touch

    Another Life: The climate report's final notice to the world arrived on the winter's best day: sun aglow in the orange willow, a slow line of surf unfurling at the edge of the sea. At low tide, it curled around the prow of the old wreck, a gaunt, black timber jutting up from the sand in a final stiff finger to the future. How long before it, too, vanishes, even at the lowest spring ebb? p

  • Eye on Nature

    Readers' observations on nature. p

  • EcoWeb

    www.buildingsofireland.ie p

  • Horizons

    Gardens go organic:  Sustainable gardens are a growing trend in gardening circles as more and more gardeners replace toxic pesticides with eco-friendly alternatives. p
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  • A dip into literature's DNA

    Literary Criticism : A series of close encounters with authors provides a direct route to the heart of the writing process p

  • Chronicle of a lost community

    Memoir: The great and enduring city of Baghdad has many faces. When I first visited it, one month after 9/11, people there were ill and exhausted after 11 years of UN sanctions. Most were fearful of what was coming next. p

  • A battle against guilt

    Interview: A former British soldier wrestling with memories of the Troubles is central to Rachel Seiffert's new novel, she tells Susan McKay. p

  • All the lonely people of John Lennon's childhood

    Memoir: The Fab Four are a dwindling band of brothers nowadays but their music still effortlessly transcends wave after wave of fad and fashion. And as we push on remorselessly towards the 30th anniversary (imagine) of the assassination of John Lennon, the most waspish and brilliant of The Beatles continues to fascinate. p

  • Paperbacks

    Irish Times writers review the latest paperbacks p

  • Back in Sargent's Venice

    Painting: John Singer Sargent captured the unique essence of Venice in a series of vivid paintings, writes Colm Tóibín p

  • Left cold by the Canadian winter

    Fiction: Stef Penney's excursion into genre fiction has many weaknesses, primarily in characterisation, although there is no denying her attention to multi-dimensional plot, writes Eileen Battersby. p

  • Opportunities for communion in the global village

    Poetry: As he celebrates his 60th birthday Micheál O'Siadhail has received much publicity. Few would begrudge him this recognition beyond fearing that it might devalue his reputation. He has, in fact, had a successful career as a lecturer at Trinity College, as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, and as the author of books about learning Irish. His reputation as a poet is still being determined, writes Maurice Harmon p

  • A master of memorable speech

    Feature: London, New York, Washington and Oxford will all host events for WH Auden's centenary, but next weekend the poet's hometown of York gets in first, writes Niall MacMonagle p

  • You can't beat a good book-into-film

    Loose Leaves: Fans of Canadian writer Alice Munro, still basking in the glow of her last book, The View from Castle Rock , can see how her work transfers to the screen during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, now in full swing. p
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  • Miscarriage of justice

    TV Review:  'God save the queen and my lords, the chief justices." And God save us all from the piece of self-important trash that the BBC smeared on to our screens this week, The Verdict, a "reality" drama about a fictional rape case (yes, another one) that was about as edifying and credible as Jade Goody on a postage stamp. p

  • But, yes we are happy

     PresentTense:   'But, are you happy?" asks Labour's new ad slogan. Well, some people will have been happier before Labour decided that its drive for victory should require the steam-rolling of English syntax. Just because Pat Rabbitte's rhetoric is littered with exclamation marks does not mean that random commas should be allowed pollute his party's slogans. p

  • Daddy Tubridy tut-tuts for Ireland

    RadioReview:  You'd have to pity the Scottish playwright David Harrower (The Tubridy Show, RTÉ Radio 1, Monday). He was probably told by the publicist for his play Blackbird, which opened in Dublin this week, that he was going on a programme that describes itself on its website as one that examines "Irish culture, society and politics with curiosity and an open mind". p
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