World / All Themes
Making a world in his own image
13.06.2008 23:28
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POETRY: CIARAN BERRY'S debut is clearly inflected by his study and work in the States. The Sphere of Birds brings a reflective, sometimes reflexive, technique to bear on the familiar materials of childhood, "that decade we lived on the outskirts of town", writes Fiona Sampson
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Haunted by the many ghosts of musical heroes past
13.06.2008 23:27
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The Spooks of the Thirteenth Lock boast a sound shaped by a pleasing variety of Irish musical legends, writes Tony Clayton-Lea
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Haunted by the absurd in Beirut
13.06.2008 23:27
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FICTION: Although now living in Canada, this year's International Impac Dublin Literary Award winner brings us firmly to the heart of his wartorn home city, writes Eileen Battersby
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A compassionate exploration of the world we live in
13.06.2008 23:27
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ESSAYS: WHEN LEFT-WING ideas are on the defensive, finding a style capable of getting a solid grip on contemporary society, through all the spangles and foam of late capitalism, poses a problem for the left-wing essayist, writes Barry McCrea
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Caught in the crush of humanity at Heysel
13.06.2008 23:27
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NON-FICTION: THE CROWD in question is that heading to the European Cup final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels in 1985, at which 39 Juventus supporters died after a charge by rioting Liverpool followers.
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A tragedy of the Troubles
13.06.2008 23:27
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MEMOIR: IN OCTOBER 1974, when Patrick Maguire was 13 years old, two bombs exploded in Guilford. Five people died, many more were horribly injured.
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Making way for the wild Irish
13.06.2008 23:27
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HISTORY: IN THE 1790s, as today, American conservatives fretted and raged over the dangers immigrants allegedly posed to the new nation's social stability, cultural purity, and political integrity, writes Kerby A Miller
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Conquering Death
13.06.2008 23:27
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BIOGRAPHY: WHEN I WAS a young boy in Belfast in the 1950s, one of my grandmother's friends who used to attend little soirees in our front room with his wife, Ella, was called "Uncle" Oswald.
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'Honor went straight from breastmilk onto the decaf chai lattes'
13.06.2008 23:26
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Sorcha protesting against the new Starbucks in Dalkey? She loves Buckys almost as much as I do. But then, this is not really about the coffee . . .
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The tricks of the trade
13.06.2008 23:26
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TV REVIEW: The Apprentice BBC1, Wednesday: Victorian Sex Explorer Channel 4, Monday: Sex and Sensibility RTÉ1, Thursday: Undercover Ireland: Sex Trade TV3, Monday
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A big slice of barney brack
13.06.2008 23:26
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RADIO REVIEW: ON TUESDAY MORNING, I turned on Today With Pat Kenny (RTÉ Radio One, weekdays) in the middle of an interview with a lovely woman who kept laughing – a lot – about her rise from a working class Liverpool neighbourhood to become a barrister. She appeared to be plugging a memoir. Kenny seemed to particularly warm to her, even if she was just an ordinary woman with an ordinary story to tell about a rather ordinary life.
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