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  • Alone he stands

    We are living in complicated times, says Robert Redford, who has no fear of exposing the truth. His latest film is his most political yet, he tells Michael Dwyer . p

  • Takin' it back to the limit

    In the week The Eagles release their first album in 28 years, Seán Flynn sees a gig by the troubled band who have provided the soundtrack to his and many others' lives. p
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  • Double date for opera lovers

    On The Town/Catherine Foley: There were some double-takes when Marcus DeLoach, a baritone from New York, in orange prison overalls and handcuffs, walked into the Oak Room of the Mansion House in Dublin this week, dressed for his part in Dead Man Walking. p

  • History needs no narrative thread

    Culture Shock: The web has evolved to blur the line between the beginning, the middle and the sense of an ending, writes Fintan O'Toole . p

  • And the word was made fresh

    Ronnie Drew's latest collaboration is a spoken word album, with lyrics that bite into Irish life, writes Brian Boyd . p

  • 'Balcony' back on stage after 20 years

    ArtScape/Edited by Deirdre Falvey: In its day, it was considered to have been the quintessential "Troubles play", writes Jane Coyle. p
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  • A city woven into its people

    The texture of Dublin would be nothing without the people who inhabit its history, from Viking traders to Dean Swift and the thousands whose names are lost, writes Neil Hegarty. p

  • The evolutionary point of battering rams

    Another Life:  The four Blackface rams down the boreen have a whole field to themselves, a benevolent quarantine before their November run among the ewes, writes Michael Viney . p

  • The big bird watch

    Horizons/Sylvia Thompson: How well are our robins, blue tits and other familiar garden birds coping with climate change? Is the conservation of corncrakes working? p
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  • A precedent, not a president

    MEMOIR: All Kinds of Everything By Dana Rosemary Scallon : Dana Rosemary Scallon exposes her many contradictions but still keeps herself under wraps, writes Liz McManus . p

  • Guide to a golden age

    HISTORY: Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire By Judith Herrin: When WB Yeats visited Ravenna in 1907, he was taken aback by the beauty of the Byzantine mosaics, writes Patrick Comerford . p

  • First symptoms of celeb-itis

    HISTORY: Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation, 1918-1940 By DJ Taylor: The so-called Bright Young People were a privileged coterie of English aristocrats, more or less talented bohemians and their various hangers-on, most of them in their 20s, whose flamboyant fun and games in the West End of London after the first World War shocked their parents and provided the public with much vicarious amusement, writes Patrick Skene Catling . p

  • The clown prince of the Literary Revival

    To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Oliver St John Gogarty, poet Eamon Grennan fêtes a great talker still worth talking about. p

  • Loss of a vibrant voice

    Loose Leaves/Caroline Walsh: It's always sad when someone whose byline has graced the pages of The Irish Times dies and their name must be erased from the contacts book . . . and the late Anthony Clare was a very bright star in the constellation of that contacts book. p

  • Literary duo laid bare

    BIOGRAPHY: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm: A revealing and complex look at the intertwined lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, writes Carlo Gébler . p

  • Playing with the heart of matter

    SCIENCE: Faust in Copenhagen: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age By Gino Segrè: In 1926 Albert Einstein made his famous proclamation that God "does not play dice", writes Michael John Gorman. p

  • Paperbacks

    A selection of paperbacks reviewed. p
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  • Ramsay's culinary coup

    TV Review/Fionola Meredith: What, no flash of carefully manicured bare chest? The signature moment when Gordon Ramsay exposes his meaty torso to the camera's gaze, as he changes into his chef's whites, was strangely absent from the first episode in a new series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. p

  • Better the Dev you know

    Radio Review/Bernice Harrison: Diarmaid Ferriter's new series Judging Dev (RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday) is a massive thing - 10 parts, its own smart looking website, podcasts (dance at the crossroads to that, why don't you) and top historians rounded up for their take on Éamon de Valera. p

  • He looks at me, genuinely shocked, and goes, 'You've never heard of Stalin?' and I'm like, 'What the fock is this - Blackboard Jungle?'

    Honor's ortistic streak ended up on her face, but it was, like, impossible to remove and JP's new bird really didn't see the funny side of the two Ronnies, writes Ross O'Carroll-Kelly . p
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