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  • Flogging misogyny at the multiplex

    Bijou Phillips as Whitney in Hostel Part II The ever-increasing number of 'torture porn' horror films seems to be part of a wider trend towards the mainstream portrayal of women as sexualised bait and prey, writes Kira Cochrane p

  • Conspiracies in the studio

    Lucian Freud paints his subjects in the round, giving us a sense of what is going on beneath the surface, writes Aidan Dunne p
Arts

  • Setting the tone for Wexford

    OnTheTown A screeching peacock flew above the guests' heads on to the ramparts of Johnstown Castle, passing a piper, Sgt David "Nobby" Tormey of the 33rd Reserve Battalion, Wexford, who stood in the fading light, waiting to play, writes  Catherine Foley p

  • Look out, Cromwell's on his way

    ArtScape Steel-eyed and hawk-faced James Cromwell is one of Hollywood's most in-demand character stars, with a penchant for playing the senator/CIA boss/chief executive of a global corporation who turns out to be the villain in the last reel, writes Deirdre Falvey p
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  • More honey than money

    While bee colonies across the Atlantic are mysteriously vanishing, beekeeping here is on the increase - in the pursuit of pure honey, writes Renagh Holohan p

  • Pollination under threat as bees vanish

    Another life 'If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." p

  • Horizons

    Habitat and bird laws Our natural heritage has been under appreciated by previous governments and an effective system of strict protection of species and sites designated under the Habitats and Birds Directives is now required. p
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  • An identity withheld

    Memoir According to Richard Ellman, one of James Joyce's sisters stayed with him in Paris, on her way from Ireland back to her home in Trieste.  p

  • Two takes on teenage sex

    Young Adult Fiction While historians of children's literature do not always agree as to the precise origins of what today is called "young adult" fiction, no one denies the key position held by Judy Blume's 1975 novel, Forever, in the evolution of the genre.  p

  • Far from safety

    Graphic Art The first casualty of war is truth. Words no longer mean what they used to mean, so that to "cleanse" means to slaughter and a "safe area" is one under siege by a ruthless enemy. p

  • Bosie in from the cold

    Biography Already famous, Oscar Wilde's very public disgrace and imprisonment copper-fastened his iconic status, greatly helped by his writings The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis . p

  • Ambivalent reflections in a wartime hall of mirrors

    Fiction Osewoudt is small, insignificant, blond, smooth-skinned, looks a bit like a girl and, thanks to his high-pitched voice, sounds like one too. p

  • Garibaldi the great?

    Biography From Italy's partial unification in 1860 until the first World War, nation-building, an essential task for those who wished to see the new state flourish and join the ranks of the great powers, faced a number of hurdles. p

  • Thoughts on life, learning and good leadership

    Education Roger Downer retired last year as president of the University of Limerick (UL) on health grounds. p

  • Paperbacks

    The latest paperback releases p

  • Loose leaves

    Guess who's got a collection? The short stories that Roddy Doyle (who on Wednesday won the €10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for Paula Spencer) has been writing in recent years for Metro Éireann will form the basis of his first short story collection, writes Caroline Walsh . p
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  • Hit the road, Jack

     TVReview 'Fear does not sell as well as hope," concluded Frank Luntz on Sunday's The Week in Politics as, seemingly baffled by the vagaries of Irish politics, the American pollster bowed out with his final analysis of why we chose to disembowel the Progressive Democrats and return their coalition partner, Bertie Ahern, the "political tsunami" (goodness), to the hot seat.  writes Hilary Fannin p

  • With running mates like these . . .

    Radio Review So that's what a political shafting sounds like, what a politician feels like when she's been stabbed in the back, not by a cruel electorate but by her own party, writes Bernice Harrison p

  • I read your news today, oh boy

     Present Tense Peer pressure is something most people vaguely remember from their adolescence, when to conform they were supposed to start smoking and have holes in their jeans, despite neither having any discernible benefits, writes Davin O'Dwyer p
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