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The Name behind the Factory
Billy Name's 1960s photographs of the Factory, which he set up
with Andy Warhol, are showing in Cork this month. He tells
Brian O'Connell why he is always happy to recall a
'historic period' p
Focusing on the bigger picture
Material outside the mainstream is what has always interested 'Fast Food Nation' producer Jeremy Thomas, he tells Michael Dwyer p
Learning the tunes and living the life
The road to Baltimore next week will be full of fiddlers - and not just Irish ones. Folk music convert Gilles Apap talks to Siobhán Long p
Arts
On the Town
Scully's construction works Vertical stones standing starkly against layers of horizontal ones were described as central to the Sean Scully show at the Kerlin Gallery, which opened in Dublin this week. "It's a very particular view of the walls of Aran," said Darragh Hogan, a director of the Kerlin Gallery. "They are beautiful documents of a dying tradition . . . And they give a clue as to how he constructs his abstract paintings." pClash over festival funding move
Art Scape Edited by Deirdre Falvey It is not much of a laughing matter, but one would imagine the nasty parasite that has infected Galway's public water supply would provide endless inspiration for parade designers at this year's Galway Arts Festival (GAF), writes Lorna Siggins . pDetailed, delicate writing, always defying definition
Culture ShockFintan O'Toole Aidan Higgins's first novel received huge acclaim in the 1960s, but his hunger for fame and fortune remained unsatisfied p
The women in Collins's life
The recently auctioned letters of Moya Llewelyn-Davis give insights into Michael Collins's personality and his relationship with Kitty Kiernan, writes Melissa Llewelyn-Davis pThe cuckoo's call and the crimes that follow
Another Life Michael Viney pHorizons
OPW plans to improve park life When a transport study commissioned by the Office of Public Works found that about 10 million car journeys were made through the Phoenix Park every year, even the officials in charge were aghast at the finding. p
Sites of endless ambiguity
Fiction When wars end, the real trouble begins. The slave-holding American South lost the civil war but the psychic scars left by racism were carried, by white people as well as black, for more than a century after Abolition. A colonial power may be expelled by a movement of national liberation, but habits of self-doubt may persist long after the occupier has gone. pHitler's eyes in Ireland
History Adolf Mahr came to Ireland in 1927 as keeper of Irish antiquities in the National Museum. Although not a trained archaeologist, he made a considerable impression both as a scholar and as a promoter of archaeological research, encouraging a major initiative by Harvard University. pOn the complexities of a long marriage
Poetry In an interview with the editor of PN Review, Elaine Feinstein commented on Al Alvarez's The Savage God: "I remember his introduction well. Not for me. If you've escaped the Holocaust entirely by the serendipitous chance of your family deciding not to settle in Germany, and you're conscious of that - as I was from about age nine onwards - you don't look for suicidal risks much. pPallid portrait of a treasured tomb
Architecture The Taj Mahal was a photo-opportunity even before cameras were invented. The image of the white marble mausoleum in Agra, northern India, has in the last few hundred years become to that country what the Pyramids have been for thousands of years to Egypt. pTracking back to the truth
Fiction In one of her previous novels, What Are You Like? (2000), Anne Enright used the story of Irish twins, brought up apart from each other, to illuminate the ironies and tensions always present within blood relationships. pThe Little Corporal in the Levant
History In 1798, the French republic, looking to deal a knockout blow to Great Britain, entrusted a sizeable army and much of its fleet to a young, gifted, and enormously ambitious Corsican general, Napoleon Bonaparte, who despite an early association with the Jacobin faction had emerged unscathed from the revolution. pIs this the best ofthe US?
Fiction Where has a decade gone? Has so much time dribbled away since Granta published its inaugural Best of Young American Novelists? pHow the Irish autobiography went from 'we' to 'I'
As RTÉ and Gill & Macmillan launch a €10,000 writing competition for true life stories, Liam Harte asks why critical literature on Irish autobiography remains so slight despite the genre's prevalence pFestival for our times
Loose Leaves Caroline Walsh A celebration of the work of poet Thomas Kinsella, who will be conferred with the Freedom of Dublin this month, and a rare opportunity to hear Adrienne Rich, one of the great American poets of the past 50 years, are among the highlights of this year's Dublin Writers Festival, which will run from Wednesday, June 13th to Sunday, June 17th. Some 30 Irish and international writers and journalists will take part. p
The definitive de Valera
TV Review Hilary Fannin Easter 1916. "He had little or no sleep for the entire week. He was out walking all night when he came across a train carriage and he decided to break in and catch a few hours' sleep. pThe state of the nation? One call said it all
Radio Review Conor Goodman It came very suddenly, in the end. Sunday-morning listeners expecting some mild matinal stimulation from John Bowman awoke instead to Charlie Bird hauling them out of bed by the big toe with the news that an election date had been set. RTÉ's journalists, like children on Christmas morning, were too excited to sleep and had stormed into the studio at first light to began broadcasting Hard News to the nation at 8am. pThe first online election. Sort of
Present Tense Shane Hegarty p
