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  • Carved against the grain

    Sculptor, dramatist, poet and political activist - James McKenna was instinctively against the establishment, writes Aidan Dunne , Art Critic p

  • Graphic attractions

    It used to be that studios would simply adapt a graphic novel for the screen, but a new breed of writers and film-makers is working across the two media, writes Ryan Gilbey p

  • A radical sonic departure

    Thurston Moore of art rockers Sonic Youth has stepped away from the avant garde by making an acoustic solo album, he tells Jim Carroll p

  • Thirstin' Moore: Sonic Youth go the Starbucks route

    With the traditional record industry in the doldrums, some interesting new players have decided to take a punt on the business of selling music. Coffee chain Starbucks is one such new arrival. They have been selling various CDs from Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell along with their skinny lattes and frappuccinos for a number of years. p
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  • New voices ringing true

    On The Town: Poet and teacher Nell Regan smiled as she recounted the innocent questions of her young students at Castaheany Educate Together National School in Dublin 15 beforeshe left to attend the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards in Dublin this week.   p

  • A blank canvas for the Budget

    ArtScape: It's a twitchy old time, as people in the arts, and the Arts Council, wait to see what next week's Budget will bring, and how the relatively tiny proportion of it that affects arts and culture will fare. p

  • Travellers as real people

    Culture Shock: Rosaleen McDonagh shows extraordinary courage in exploring the internal tensions of Traveller lives. p
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  • The village with a vision

    With their village heading into decline, the residents of Upperchurch, Co Tipperary took matters into their own hands and staged an impressive comeback, writes John G O'Dwyer p

  • Horizons

    Set the alarm bells ringing: Church bells will ring out in towns and cities across Ireland next Saturday at 2pm calling for strong political action on climate change. p
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  • The cricketing Marxist

    Biography Ashis Nandy has said cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English. The 11 men seeking to dislodge the batsman are not the real opposition, he contends with a Hindu sigh - the true antagonist is Fate, summed up by fluctuations in weather, wicket or the standard of umpiring. p

  • A life in Fianna Fáil

    Politics People have to kiss many toads before they get to meet the prince, David Andrews observes in passing apropos Charles Haughey's deal with Des O'Malley's Progressive Democrats to form Fianna Fáil's first coalition government in 1989. The same observation might be applied to his own political career, which involved a long period in the wilderness before getting to the cabinet table as a full minister. p

  • Where humans and nature meet

    Poetry The Company of Horses is Peter Fallon's first collection of new poetry since 1998 and follows his 2004 translation of Virgil's Georgics. Fallon admires Virgil for the way in which he infuses "his descriptions of a way of life with prescriptions for a way to live". p

  • A retired cop, piles of corpses and a psycho called Rambo

    Crimefile In I Saw You, Julie Parsons has crafted a fine novel of suspense. Retired policeman Michael McLoughlin is haunted by a case he investigated where a young woman was brutalised and then murdered. p

  • Southern discomfort

    Fiction Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, Gone With the Wind, published in 1936, became one of history's most cherished stories of love and war, selling 28 million copies worldwide, creating one of the most memorable fictional couples of all time and an ending that has proven hard to beat. p

  • A charmer of note

    Neurology Oliver Sacks is a music lover, a superb physician and a confabulator with a gift for turning truculent medical material into illuminating narratives that describe the impact of complex neurological conditions and their treatment on the lives of patients. His most loved works are probably The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings (which was also an Oscar-nominated film). p
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