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Recounting an eventful journey
06.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
MEMOIR: William Watts's decade as provost at Trinity College Dublin marked a period of great change for the university, writes Gemma Hussey.
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The importance of debunking some European myths
06.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
CURRENT AFFAIRS: THIS VOLUME is a response to two events: the 50th anniversary of the coming into force of the European Community Treaty, otherwise known as the Rome Treaty, and the forthcoming referendum on the Reform Treaty, popularly known as the Lisbon Treaty, writes Brigid Laffan.
Ireland
Holidays
Lighten up, sad liberals
06.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
FICTION: This is a literary debut that is groaning with seriousness and political engagement, writes Kevin Barry.
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Holidays
A portrait of Beckett as a young lecturer
06.06.2008 23:36
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LITERARY CRITICISM: THE IMAGE of the austere Samuel Beckett lecturing on French literature to a group of (mainly female) undergraduate students in Trinity College Dublin between 1930 and 1931 is intriguing on many levels, writes Eamon Maher.
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SECOND READING: 14
06.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
This week second reading looks at To The Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf (1927)
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The bones of the butcher boy
06.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
TV REVIEW: Arts Lives: Patrick McCabe: Blood Relations RTE1, Tuesday Sonia's Last Lap RTE1, Sunday I'd Do Anything BBC1, Saturday What in the World? Burma: The Generals' Genocide RTE1, Thursday
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Ticking each and every box
06.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
RADIO REVIEW: IF PRESENTER Rachael English and producer Aonghus McAnally rifled through every single one of the 13,000 Boxes (RTÉ Radio One, Thursday) of the 2006 census, they'd need more than a six-part series. But, at times, it felt like they did, writes Quentin Fottrell.
Ireland
Holidays
'Imagine the humiliation of being creamed by the Viking Splash'
06.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
I'm drowning my sorrows and watching the running of the bulls, aka the mini-marathon, when something falls in my lap that sets my heart racing
Ireland
Holidays
Are we out of our minds?
06.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
ARE WE out of our collective minds? We are not going to win our money on "the horses" if we say No to the Lisbon Treaty. We bought that nag in the last general election and, yet, here we go again. The latest Irish Times/TNS mrbi opinion poll suggests that we are set to reject the treaty in next Thursday's referendum. It is difficult to decipher why we would make such a short-sighted decision.
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Party positions
06.06.2008 23:35
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AS THE economic storm clouds gather and Government revenues go into free fall, Fianna Fáil maintains its highest level of public support in more than six years, according to the latest Irish Times/TNS mrbi opinion poll. It is an extraordinary development and it emphasises, as nothing else might, the unease of the electorate in present circumstances and the brittle nature of the support put together so painstakingly by the Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny.
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Join brolly lobby to have fun and fight climate change
06.06.2008 23:34
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A family-friendly day of action on Sandymount strand on June 15th will send politicians a signal, writes Breda O'Brien.
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High earners must pay more income tax
06.06.2008 23:34
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In leaner times it is the better off who should make a greater contribution, writes Noel Whelan.
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As a nation we have simply too much to lose by voting No to the Lisbon Treaty
06.06.2008 23:34
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Vague doubts and fears from the No side should not sway voters, writes Garret FitzGerald.
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