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  • Marshalling the megachoir

    Getting airborne: the challenge is 'to come up with something which sounds unified', says conductor Mark Duley, in rehearsal with singers in Griffith College, Dublin. Gustave Mahler, Gerhard Markson, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, hundreds of singers of all ages - tonight the Tallaght Basketball Arena will play host to a cosmic dance of life, writes Arminta Wallace p

  • Irish hit the beach amid Cannes frenzy

    Duke Special (left) and band on the beach in Cannes at the Irish Film Board/Culture Ireland reception. The Irish made an impact at Cannes Film Festival this week, with a warm response to Garage and recognition for a young producer, writes Michael Dwyer p

  • Afraid to speak out about universities

    CultureShock A letter from a senior academic, who cannot be named, reveals the extent to which our third-level institutions have ceased to be centres of free inquiry, writes Fintan O'Toole p
Arts

  • Intimacy problems at the Love Show

    Justin Timberlake's ambitious new stage show is a confused mix of towering spectacle and awkward structure, where the real fans may miss out, writes Peter Crawley p

  • A season for defying gravity

    On The Town  by Catherine Foley and Barry Roche p

  • Imma set to expand - but where?

    ArtScape  Anyone using or even passing by Heuston Station lately cannot but have noticed the enormous development fast taking shape along St John's Road, writes Aidan Dunne. p
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  • Erosion of confidence

    Ireland's 5,800km coastline is under threat from many angles and there is no cohesive strategy to protect it, writes Lorna Siggins , Marine Correspondent p

  • Posh diners help revive inshore fishing

    Another Life  It's in the calms of early summer that the sea between Thallabawn and the distant islands begins to seem very empty. p

  • Horizons

    Packing up is trouble The over-packaging and the lack of sustainable packaging on many food items and consumer goods is a neglected environmental issue in this country. p

  • Eye on nature

    Readers' observations of nature p

  • Ecoweb

    www.justforests.org p
Book ReviewsBack to Top

  • Congress uncovered

    History Admirers of Adam Zamoyski's earlier volume, the epic and scarifying 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Rome, will not be disappointed by this hefty sequel. p

  • Blood feud of a rebel region

    Chechnya The fate of Russia's breakaway state and the brutality of the conflict there are explored in two new books p

  • Songs of experience

    Poetry Galway Kinnell is heir to a tradition in American poetry that includes two of his guiding spirits, Whitman and Frost, poets with a strong impulse towards celebration of home ground.  p

  • Untamed imagination

    Short Stories Karen Russell is 25. A graduate of the Columbia MFA, a creative writing programme, she includes a full page of acknowledgements in this, her first, book, thanking everyone from her seventh grade teacher to the cat's mother - worse than a speech after a GAA fund-raiser in Mullingar. p

  • Getting inside messed-up minds

    Fiction It is all too easy to make mistakes, and all too difficult to correct them. The sheer weight of one wrong committed in anger by a young girl takes over her life. p

  • His country's voice of conscience

    Memoir The publication of Wole Soyinka's new memoir is timely. Last month, Nigeria held presidential elections, which should produce the first democratic transition in Nigerian history from one civilian leader to another. p

  • The case for the defence of a writer out of step

    Biography There are some Irish writers who are deemed to have produced interesting or worthwhile writing only in spite of themselves: for most of the previous century, Emily Lawless was very decidedly among them. p

  • From the workhouse to Westminster

    Biography Forty-one years ago, in 1966, Gerry Fitt was elected MP for West Belfast in the Westminster parliament. p

  • Loose leaves

    Joyce's cinema rediscovered As downtown Dublin morphs more and more into a chic modern metropolis, old landmarks fall away - but sometimes parts of them remain. p

  • Paperbacks

    The latest paperback relases p
Seen & HeardBack to Top

  • Back to its bloody best

    TVReview  Leo Tolstoy, despite his inclination towards mystical humanism, could, when the mood took him, deliver a strain of withering criticism that might have caused Kenneth Tynan to think twice, writes Donald Clarke p

  • Vote yes to the pre-election blackout

    Radio Review Whoever decided on the pre-election broadcast blackout on Wednesday gets my vote, writes  Bernice Harrison p

  • Why Google wants to get to know you

    Present Tense During the regular episodes when I lose my keys or wallet or car, a strange impulse sometimes pops into my head: "Maybe I should Google it.", writes Shane Hegarty p
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