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  • Sinking ship

    The Pirate Queen, despite its obvious flaws, was given a purely cosmetic repair before being packed off to Broadway, the harshest theatre climate of all, writes Belinda McKeon p
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  • Why international musicians like the sound of Dublin

    CultureShock: For millions of people, Dublin exists only as an excited atmosphere on live recordings by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Kylie Minogue and André Rieu, writes  Fintan O'Toole p

  • Disciples decipher da Vinci

    OnTheTown Some were overwhelmed, some had to sit down, some were speechless. To others it was like making a pilgrimage to the shrine of a genius, writes Catherine Foley p

  • A hard act for Brennan to follow

    ArtScape: There's a new face at the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism and no-one yet knows what to expect of Seamus Brennan, writes Deirdre Falvey. p
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  • The songs that bind

    The enduring importance of song on Tory Island reveals deep truths about our relationship with music, writes Catherine Foley p

  • Breathing life back into Bréifne

    Another Life: Even if Earth is changing, this is still the peak of summer, zenith of a so-far reasonably temperate sun. More leaves, more flowers than you have ever seen in Ireland crowd into the carbon-sweetened air, all jostling for a fair share (if possible, more than a fair share) of space and light.   p

  • Eye On Nature

    Reader's observations on nature. p

  • Horizons

    Protecting the farmers' market Farmers' markets are a growing phenomenon across the country as more and more people search for local, organically produced food. p
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  • The last word on a Nazi boyhood

    Memoir: Layers of incident, routine and monumental, make up any life. All layers, all interconnected like the skin of an onion. Trust Günter Grass - ever inventive artist as witness, one-time Hitler Youth member, Luftwaffe auxiliary, prisoner of war, long-time critic of German reunification and 1999 Noble Literature Laureate - to strike the perfect metaphor. p

  • Sentiment, actually

    Fiction: Lawrence and his little sister, Jemima, are off to Rome with their mother. We know that Lawrence is a smart boy, because when packing he decides to take his Tintin books rather than his Asterix. p

  • The war on online terror

    Terror: The Institute of European Affairs (IEA) is a policy research institute based in Dublin and Brussels. In 2006, the IEA identified a number of key themes for priority research, including counter-terrorism, immigration and integration. p

  • Authentic mix of wit and ignorance

    Fiction: At first glance a novel centred on the story of a young Irishman in New York taking the job of caring for a dying man who suffers from muscular dystrophy might seem something of a challenge for a reader: unremitting tragedy seems a highly likely prospect. p

  • Drawing his art from life

    Interview: Fresh from the elation of winning the Impac prize, Per Petterson talks to Eileen Battersby , Literary Correspondent p

  • Loose leaves

    You woke up this morning, got yourself some Yeats. Isn't it heartening the way TV - occasionally anyway - knows the worth of the literary canon. First it was Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman turning up in Lost. Now it's Yeats and The Sopranos, writes Caroline Walsh. p

  • A celebration of civilisation

    Essays: Let me not wait till December to name my book of the year. This is it. If Cultural Amnesia doesn't figure prominently when the pundits recommend their Christmas favourites, good sense and understanding will have perished from the earth. p

  • The zest of the unfettered imagination

    Fiction: You'll know the joke about the rabbi and priest. p

  • Paperbacks

    The latest releases reviewed. p
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  • The curse of the psychic investigators

    Present Tense:  This week, gardaí searched an area in Boyle, Co Roscommon, in relation to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Their source? A psychic "tip-off" relayed to them by Interpol. p

  • From rolling greens to dull dens of iniquity

    RadioReview: On Drivetime Sport (RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday), Des Cahill sounded awestruck by the greens. "They're super-fast and slick," he enthused, "amazing, a real challenge." Worn down by the sheer tedium of the days of hourly speculation about whether Trevor would get into the tent with Bertie, for a brief moment I thought that either I or Cahill was hallucinating. p

  • The greasy reality game

    TVReview: The springs in the old television casting couch were well and truly tested last weekend with the finals of two elongated television auditions for West End musicals, Grease Is the Word and Any Dream Will Do, both shows vying for the limited attention span of an early Saturday night audience, and once again banking on the public's telephone voting skills and seemingly inexhaustible patience for weeping and sweating young performers pleading for their big break. p
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