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  • The man who sets the Wexford mood

    Director Keith Warner makes his Wexford Festival Opera debut this month with Kurt Weill's The Silverlake . He tells Michael Dervan about his musical approach. p

  • Carefully choosing her words

    Claire Keegan, whose second short story collection comes after a gap of eight years, talks about the use of English like someone would talk about mastering a difficult foreign language, writes Rosita Boland . p
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  • Greendale RIP: the end of an academy of Irish writing

    Culture Shock: The Dublin school where Roddy Doyle taught and Enda Walsh learned is to close, writes Fintan O'Toole . Does this signal the end of the dynamism in Irish education that the school embodied? p

  • A call to make parties face the music

    ArtScape : They're on your doorstep only once in five years, so get them to face the music. The Forum for Music in Ireland is asking people to quiz politicians about music policy. p
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  • The schism by the sea

    Fifty years after the Catholic boycott of Protestant businesses in Fethard-on-Sea, Co Wexford, sparked by controversy over a mixed marriage, one of the central figures talks to Tim Fanning . p

  • Towns in transition to make slow food grow

    Local coalitions are forming in an effort to combat climate problems and the inevitable rise in food prices, but others consider them pointless, writes Haydn Shaughnessy . p

  • Des res designs

    Horizons: Architects, planners, artists and designers will gather to discuss the social, environmental, economic and aesthetic issues that permeate house design in Ireland at a conference in City Hall, Cork, on Thursday and Friday, May 24th and 25th. p
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  • The world's only film festival?

    Film : Cannes, the most turbulent festival of them all, is described in fascinating detail. p

  • The party's over

    Sociology : An infectious call for a return to the Dionysian principle of celebration p

  • A bleak time in Babylon

    Biography : A sensitive, readable exploration of Henry James's mixed experience in Paris. p

  • Running down the dog of war

    Current Affairs : A very subjective dissection of Bush's former defence secretary. p

  • A whole lot of plotting going on

    Thriller: 'Are you a hollow man, Mr Parker?"That's only one of several heavy questions that Charles "Bird" Parker must puzzle over as he gets involved in another seemingly routine job - but fans of John Connolly's thrillers know there's never anything routine about the caseload of the morose Portland, Maine PI, who has a penchant for sniffing out paranormal horrors in seemingly mundane crimes. p

  • Belfast's bloodiest year

    The Troubles : In this week of harmonious smiles from Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, it is perhaps more important than ever to recall the darkness which once prevailed over Northern Ireland politics. p

  • Critical acclaim that was not misplaced

    Short Stories: In 1999, Claire Keegan made a highly auspicious debut with her short-story collection, Antarctica . p

  • A slice of life without the icing

    Fiction: 'It would have turned out different if she'd eaten that cake," Tanya comments towards the end of Sandra Newman's second novel. p

  • Rich, wonderful exercises in not getting yourself killed

    Fiction: Old Moses Tyler the bootlegger wasn't much of a father. That said, he was entitled to the casket his family bought for him. p

  • Paperbacks

    Philip Roth Everyman Vintage, £6.99 Taking his title from the line of 15th-century morality plays and using the funeral of his nameless protagonist as his reference point, Philip Roth examines the man's life and gradual descent into the grave via a number of prosaic hospital visits. p

  • Greene's to close the covers

    Loose Leaves: If you want a last meander around one of Dublin's oldest bookshops, Greene's of Clare Street, you'd need to move fast. p
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  • The BBC says no to (blatant) ads

    Present Tense : At the start of the week the BBC banned a song from its radio stations. Style, Attract, Play by Shocka turns out to have been an elaborate commercial for a hair product, and its brief infiltration of the commercial-free broadcaster was part of a covert plan by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. p

  • Cue the vacuous noise

    TV Review : Two weeks into the election campaign and the romper-room party is in full swing, writes Hilary Fannin . p

  • 'Sorry' not in the bomber's dictionary

    Radio Review : If a programme called The Reunion suggests something saccharine and neat then you haven't tuned into Sue MacGregor's Sunday morning series on BBC Radio 4, writes Bernice Harrison. p
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