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Chieftains, diplomats and Joyce: Joseph O'Connor looks at the Irish connections to Rome
The novelist was based in Rome while writing his new novel and says the footprints of the Irish are all over the Eternal City ...
The Emerald Isle is producing an entertainment renaissance — and we’re here for it
Never mind that the bit turned out to be a hoax — it wasn’t actually Jenny, “just a random donkey,” the Academy confirmed.
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Culture That Made Me: Eimear McBride picks her favourite books, fellow-authors, and stage shows
Former Cork resident Eimear McBride also includes the city's Midsummer Festival, Werner Herzog, and Tindersticks in her ...
Eimear McBride: ‘When my brother died, it was not only losing him but losing all the illusions that you were going to be safe’
Having abandoned the pursuit of a career in acting after her brother’s death, the author came to the realisation that she ...
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Remembering Munich: The day the press box died
David Peace’s gripping account of the Munich air disaster, 67 years ago today, has much to say about the way media has ...
“It was Gary’s idea to bring the Irishness back into Thin Lizzy": Guitar hero Gary Moore made only one album with the band - and it’s a classic
The track incorporated three Irish folk songs – Danny Boy, The Mason’s Apron and Will You Go, Lassie Go – and the American ...
The sex is as real as it is shocking in new novel by acclaimed author
The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride has that rare and electric quality: a truly original voice that takes you deep into the thoughts of ...
Irish star conductor David Brophy on his big new job in Germany: ‘You only become competent when you’re 60′
The Dubliner is thrilling critics at his new musical home in Cologne but he still finds time to worry about Ireland’s ...
The best women's game on each remaining day of the season
Kentucky vs. South Carolina. Duke vs. Notre Dame. UCLA vs. USC. These must-watch games will decide conference races and March ...
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Brendan Costello, 55
New York - Brendan Thomas Costello Jr., 55, died peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, at Mt. Sinai Morningside in New York ...
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‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland
Although it remains, in the words of the writer Howard Jacobson ... Indeed, the most famous Jew in Irish history is the confection of Leopold Bloom, created by James Joyce, himself a non-Jew.