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  • A gruelling shift on the Factory floor

    Her leading role in Factory Girl, which charts the tragic life of Andy Warhol protege Edie Sedgwick, sees Sienna Miller take a significant step forward in her acting career. She talks to Michael Dwyer. p

  • Two painters in similar light

    Despues del bano (After the swim) 1909, oil on canvas by Joaquin Sorolla At the dawn of a terrible epoch, two painters from very different backgrounds produced the startlingly joyful, light-filled work which is now the subject of a major exhibition, writes Lara Marlowe in Paris p
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  • Mixing up Bollywood and Norn Iron

    A Bollywood musical set in Belfast offers the chance to challenge cultural assumptions - in a light-hearted way, writes Fionola Meredith. p

  • A big win for 'Girls and Dolls'

    ArtScape:  There haven't been many women honoured by the Stewart Parker Trust over the years, but all three winners of the trust's awards this week were female: two Northern Ireland writers and an 80-year-old poet. p

  • Kicking up a storm on stage

    On The Town: Opening night at Dublin's Peacock Theatre for the world premiere of a new Sam Shepard play, Kicking a Dead Horse, with Stephen Rea in its central role, was a once-in-a-lifetime occasion for many. p
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  • Getting cures from the deep

    Is the sea water that surrounds us a medicinal treasure chest? Recent research suggests it is, writes Clare O'Connell. p

  • Marine Medicine

    While marine biodiscovery is considered an emerging area, there are historic precedents where compounds from sea creatures have crossed over into medical use. p

  • The joy of such harmonious madness

    Another Life:  A day or two before Old Nature struck back with a properly stormy start to March, a snatch of spring song from a deluded skylark drifted up from the dunes. p

  • Horizons

    Getting forests to grow:   A number of regions of the world are reversing centuries of deforestation and now show an increase in forest area, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). p

  • Eye on Nature

    Readers' observations on nature p
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  • Responses to the Emergency

    Cultural History: A fascinating and brilliant cultural and social history of Ireland during the second World War. p

  • The perils of building the Panama Canal

    History: When, late in 1848, gold was discovered in California, the quickest way to travel from the American east coast to the new Eldorado was by steamer to the town of Chagres, on the Atlantic coast of Panama (at the time a province of the Republic of New Grenada), to cross, by any possible means, the isthmus that bore the same name, and to sail from Panama City - on the Pacific coast - to San Francisco. p

  • The great punk pandemic

    Rock: An exhaustive - and exhausting - history of aexplosive musical movement p

  • Ulster ambience and a maladjusted marriage

    Memoir: This book is in two parts. Part One is an engaging account of the author's immediate predecessors, particularly his mother, in the years between the early 20th century and his own birth in the 1930s. p

  • The books people can't be bothered to finish

    LooseLeaves: While the limelight was on the 2003 Man Booker-winning Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre midweek when a British poll of 4,000 adult readers revealed that it was top of the list of novels people didn't finish, the detailed poll had other startling revelations. p

  • Swindling the children

    Memoir: Two different but wonderful books show how children refuse to give up on rotten parents p

  • Shot on a continuous loop

    Fiction: Becoming a soldier was not enough for Alfred Day. It was not a job he was looking for, it was deeper than that. He needed an experience to justify his existence. He found it when he went to war. The problem is, nothing lasts for ever, not even war. So when the chance came to revisit that experience in 1949 in the guise of a silly film, he volunteered. p

  • Paperbacks

    A selection of paperbacks reviewed p

  • A cultural place in cyberspace

    Feature: The Dublin Review of Books is a new online literary forum - and it's free. Editors Maurice Earls and Enda O'Doherty talk to Arminta Wallace. p

  • Reading room: a surfers' guide

    The Dublin Review of Books will boast a regular blog where readers can carry on live discussion of particular articles or topics between issues. p

  • Gearing up for another war

    Foreign Affairs: Former UN weapons inspector, US Marine, and self-described conservative Scott Ritter first made headlines with his high-profile challenge to the false claims by the Bush administration of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the lead-up to the war on Iraq in 2003. p
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  • The Irish induction

     TV Review:   In a week when traditionally we polish our shamrocks, brush off our brollies and get in line, six deep, to observe the purpling of mighty American thighs as they high-kick down various O'Connell streets around our green and nominally pleasant island, there were a couple of interesting interpretations of Irishness from the national broadcaster. p

  • The phone-in show as a court of last resort

    Radio Review:   Often, listening to phone-in radio shows, you'd have to wonder what comes over a person that they feel the need to tell the nation about some whine or woe that would be as productively shared with a stranger at a bus stop. p

  • Risks of keeping an open mind

    PresentTense:  A couple of months ago, I wrote about guardian angels - how much they're on call these days and how keen they are to drain your wallet. p
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