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  • Examples of expression

    Surveying snapshots: Abstract Painting, 1996 Gerhard Richter doesn't set out to make it easy for the viewer, but in a good way, writes Art Critic Aidan Dunne p

  • Dance partners

    Sensitive: the Stephen Petronio Dance Company performances at the Galway Arts Festival will include two pieces featuring the work of singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Photograph: Sarah Silver Former bad boy of dance Stephen Petronio tells Christine Madden about his soft side and working with Rufus Wainwright p

  • An illicit swig of Moynihan's Moonshine

    Johnny Moynihan's contribution to Irish music, particularly with Sweeney's Men, is incalculable, but his new passion is for old-timey, he tells Leagues O'Toole p
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  • The folks have stopped reading Amis

    CultureShock: The public is terminally uninterested in the novels of Kingsley Amis - but he would probably be pleased about that  p

  • Honouring a great Scott

    OnTheTown:   Patrick Scott, who was conferred as a Saoi of Aosdána and presented with a gold torc by President Mary McAleese at a special ceremony at the Arts Council in Dublin this week, continues to paint, he said. p

  • Moroccan circus comes to town

    A Moroccan circus rode into town with Taoub and wowed an audience of children and delighted adults at the Abbey Theatre this week. p

  • Teskey's vertical conversion

    Vertical lines replaced the expected horizontal lines in a series of new paintings by painter Donald Teskey at the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin. p

  • Frankenstein and the glowing rabbit

    The Brazilian artist Eduardo Kac, who was at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin this week to talk about his internationally famous experiments, "is something of a latter-day Leonardo da Vinci. Some might suggest more of a Frankenstein," said Michael John Gorman, director of the soon-to-be-opened Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, welcoming the critically acclaimed artist. p

  • Crowds flock to the da Vinci codex

    ArtScape: Leonardo da Vinci anticipated many things, but it's unlikely that he foresaw he would be breaking records in Dublin centuries after his death. In the first month of the exhibition of the Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo's most famous and important scientific notebooks, 38,000 people visited the Chester Beatty Library. It is the only autograph manuscript by da Vinci in private hands (Bill Gates's).  p
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  • The doyennes of Dingle

    Hard times, happy days, arranged marriages and superstitions inhabit the stories spun from the apron strings of 'na Bibeanna', the Dingle women whose memories have been collected, writes Catherine Foley p

  • Red admirals swerving in scarlet spirals

     Another Life:  A gleam of light over the mountain pierced a lowering sky and outside the window a small, dark flicker of response caught my eye, like an autumn leaf twirling upwards. Defying the next and imminent shower, a red admiral butterfly was reclaiming his airspace between the big willow and the house. p

  • EyeOnNature

    Reader's observations on nature.  p

  • Horizons

    Death of a fuel-free motor: A murder-mystery style film that examines why hundreds of efficient, fuel-free cars disappeared from American roads in the late 1990s is being screened next Tuesday (July 17th) by Cork Environmental Forum in the Ambassador Hotel, Cork at 6.45pm.  p
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  • The truth about Irish writing

    Irish Studies: 'At last, the truth!" is the feeling the reader has after reading Joe Cleary's monumental new book. Outrageous Fortune is a comparative, materialist account of the emergence of modern Irish culture, mainly writing, mainly in the 20th century. p

  • A difficult language to learn

    Poetry: In March 1984 I asked Samuel Beckett would he consider writing an introduction to Paul Celan: 65 Poems, a volume of translations done in collaboration with Peter Jankowsky (Raven Books, 1985).  p

  • Picture perfect

    Photography: The Thames & Hudson Photofile series has been one of the glories of photographic publishing for nearly two decades. These little pocket-sized volumes, elegantly produced, each carrying some 60 duotone images, were an introduction in miniature to the work of most of the world's greatest photographers. p

  • Dark hearts in Jewlaska

    Fiction: 'Vos macht a yid?" is Yiddish for "How you doin"?, or "Whassup?", or "How are things?". For Michael Chabon, novelist, screenwriter, and Pulitzer-Prizewinning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000), things are going okay. No, really, they are. Oy, as my grandmother would say. Things could be worse. p

  • A young death as a hymn to life

    Teenage Fiction: The world of publishing, like most areas of life, is prone to hype. There has been a bit of fuss about this first novel by Jenny Downham. She has, possibly to her chagrin, been compared a lot with JK Rowling - like that writer, she was a single mother living on social welfare when she wrote it. p

  • Indian independence

    Biography: In December 1774, a middle-aged woman with a chequered past, uncertain health and slender means left her husband in Dhaka and embarked on a journey around southern India. She travelled in a palanquin, with an entourage of 40 coolies and a mysterious companion whom she claimed was a cousin but was probably her lover. p

  • New dimension to the myth

    Fiction: A decade after the event, the strange death of Diana continues to haunt conspiracy theorists and royalists alike. Even when alive, the Princess of Wales was a myth. From virgin bride to jet-set divorcee, the mawkish details of Diana Spencer's sad life dominated the headlines, her downward trajectory casting her as the kind of doomed heroine more familiar to readers of F Scott Fitzgerald than Barbara Cartland.  p

  • The noise of the new generation

    Irish Language: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is one of a very small group of authors who write creatively in both Irish and English. Many Irish-language poets and novelists rely on translators to put English on them.  p

  • A European rule-breaker in Australia

    Fiction: A writer sits on a plane watching a young woman. She may be about to begin reading a new book - at least, she is carefully unwrapping a slim volume.  p

  • Low morals on high ground

    Fiction: Five years ago, Stephen L Carter, Professor of Law at Yale University, created an international splash with his debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, a thriller set among the twin worlds of Ivy League universities and American judicial appointments, terrains with which the author was intimately acquainted from his own professional life.  p

  • The name's Faulks, not Fleming

    LooseLeaves: Fans of Sebastian Faulks - and there are many - may not think they're devotees of James Bond, but the chances are they will be come next May when he brings out Devil May Care, the Bond novel he's been commissioned to write to mark the centenary of the birth of the spy's creator, Ian Fleming. p

  • Paperbacks

    The latest releases reviewed. p
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  • More tricks than treats

    TVReview: Magic and reality don't mix well. That's the fundamental flaw in the BBC's otherwise engaging new children's reality show, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, where 14 youngsters learn magic folklore, Latin spells, card tricks and chemistry - and compete for the chance to become the "real" Harry Potter. p

  • Saying it with flowers can leave a bad taste

    RadioReview: On Thursday, One Planet: Flower Power (BBC World Service) was another programme to make you pause in the aisle and wonder whether dropping that item into your shopping basket would add to a tidal wave of misery in another part of the world. p

  • Boots made for dumping

    PresentTense: People arriving into Dublin city centre on Monday morning were met by an eerie sight: muck-caked Wellington boots, abandoned in groups, as if an army of visiting farmers had been struck by a mass outbreak of spontaneous combustion. p
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