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  • Rewriting the script

    The genius of American cinema who was never let preside: Robert Altman. Actor Stephen Rea remembers a very different Robert Altman from the one he read about in the obituaries of the great director last year p

  • The man behind the scenes

    Corkman Bob Crowley is in demand in London and on Broadway for his award-winning set and costume designs (and up for three Tonys this weekend). He tells Belinda McKeon about his initial reluctance to work on the adaptation of Joan Didion's memoir p
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  • A big Galway birthday party picture

    On The Town: Galwegians are preparing to celebrate the 30th birthday of the much-loved Galway Arts Festival in style this year. p

  • O'Toole returns home - as pope

    ArtScape: Peter O'Toole returns home this month to portray a pope in the second series of the successful TV drama The Tudors, which started shooting in Irish locations this week, writes Michael Dwyer. p
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  • A new star attraction

    A new high-tech observatory is soon to open in Cork, but what does it mean for the future of science and astronomy in Ireland, asks Brian O'Connell p

  • Climate change is adding acid to the oceans

    Another Life Michael Viney Along at the cliffs there's a cleft in the rock where the waves rush up in winter to deposit, along with shreds of seaweed and Spanish aftershave bottles, the empty shells gathered from the seabed. p

  • Horizons

    Brollies to highlight follies As the incoming government puts the final touches to its policies, a coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations is creating a public spectacle tomorrow to emphasise the importance of taking political action on climate change. p
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  • 'Slow Man' is the one to beat

    Impac prize With the winner of the 2007 International Impac Dublin Literary Award to be announced next Thursday, Eileen Battersby , Literary Correspondent, weighs up the contenders on the all-male shortlist and places her bets p

  • The lost picture shows

    After James Joyce founded Dublin's first dedicated stationary cinema in 1909, many more followed . A century later, much of their architectural heritage has been obliterated, writes Marc Zimmermann p

  • A one-joke southside guide

    Satire The appeal of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is predicated on a single, simple fact: there are people in this country, mostly living in south Dublin, who have too much money and too little sense. p

  • Bloomsday blooms into Bloomsweek

    LooseLeaves Caroline Walsh It's official. Bloomsday is now the longest day of the year, having been stretched by the James Joyce Centre to last from tomorrow until June 17th. The day itself, June 16th 1904, on which Ulysses is set, is about to be celebrated in so many ways in Dublin over the coming week that you'd need to be Ronnie Delaney to get to all of them. p

  • Not quite the Khyber Pass

    History The Khyber Pass is the gateway to India, the only route between the vast, contested territory of Eurasia and the rich pickings of the subcontinent. p

  • From crime to punishment

    Crimefile Ask the Parrot by Richard Stark (who is really crime writer Donald E Westlake) is a Parker book. p

  • In a time of violence

    Fiction Gerard Donovan is adept at creating offbeat, wintry worlds. His characters have a skewed relation to reality but a flair for deep-seated reflection. The settings of his first two novels - an unspecified locale in eastern Europe in Schopenhauer's Telescope and Salt Lake City in Doctor Salt - are likewise quirky and symbolically redolent. Julius Winsome, Donovan's third fiction, shifts terrain once again to a borderland in northern Maine. p

  • Survival of a Lost Boy

    Fiction One night in the summer of 2001, I stood in a field, in thick mud, holding a clipboard and a torch. The torch showed up a row of primitive huts, and I moved from hut to hut, shining my torch inside, sometimes finding wide-eyed faces, mostly of children. p

  • A duo in darkness

    Fiction Children lead their own little lives so intensely they tend to remain removed from the world that surrounds them - no matter how traumatic events in that world might happen to be. p
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  • The over-exposure of Diana

    TV Review: On the day the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, was drawn through the streets of London, garlanded by a sea of flowers, I walked into Dublin city centre with my son in his buggy to buy him his first pair of shoes. The shops were shut. p

  • Are you ready for your history grind?

    Radio Review In the spirit of solidarity with all those stressed-out teens sitting the Leaving, I went for a bit of educational self-improvement this week. And so, I switched off the plain daft - the bloke on Liveline (RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday) agreeing with the Shelbourne Hotel for not allowing marathon- running women enter in case they'd smell up the place, and not in a good way - and turned down the deeply irritating sound of Terry Prone slagging off Frank Luntz's new book on communications while getting a good old plug in for her own similarly themed one (The Last Word, Today FM, Wednesday). p

  • I want it all and I want it brief

    Present Tense: There was a time, not long ago, when the 24-hour news cycle was hailed as the clearest manifestation of a world rendered dizzy with information overload: round-the-clock coverage demanded round-the-clock activity. p
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