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- More names for Forbidden FruitJim Carroll | On The Record »Latest acts to schedule an appearance in Dublin 8 over the June bank holiday weekend for the...
- To Cannes with Travis BickleDonald Clarke | Screenwriter »The time is here again. Tomorrow morning, Terminal Two of Dublin Airport will, for some of us, take...
- If you only do one thing this weekend: enjoy some impressive exhibitionismLaurence Mackin | Pursued by a Bear »Dance: Last week I was arguing that modern dance has, perhaps out of all the artforms, the toughest...
- Jesuits seek GaeilgeoirPól Ó Muirí | Ultach »The Society of Jesus in Dublin are looking to recruit an Irish-speaking editorial...
Film »
The brutal and the beautiful at CannesA FEW YEARS ago, I encountered the British film producer Stephen Woolley. We had both just returned from certain festivities in the south of France. Neil Jordan’s right-hand man was still bubbling. “If you don’t love Cannes then you don’t love cinema,” he told me.
'I hate the idea of sexiness'French writer, director, musician and actress Julie Delpy returns to our screens with her second culture-clash comedy, 2 Days in New York. She talks to TARA BRADY
Stage »
Devising a chaotic world for dance to live inFOR ALMOST 50 years, Trisha Brown’s dances have been seen in New York lofts, on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses, or on the sides of buildings. It’s difficult to present an overview of that career in one night, but her company’s programme at the Dublin Dance Festival is probably as close as you’ll get.
Jerry SeinfeldThe 02, Dublin
Treibh »
Scéal ón Bhreatain Bheag a aithneoidh lucht na GaeilgeIS MINIC a bhíonn lucht na Gaeilge ag caint faoi thábhacht theangacha eile Ceilteacha ach is annamh a bhíonn seans acu litríocht na dteangacha sin a léamh. Is mór an gar, mar sin, go bhfuil úrscéal iontach leis an scríbhneoir Breatnaise, Angharad Price (40), anois ar fáil i mBéarla – The Life of Rebecca Jones (MacLehose Press) – do dhaoine nach bhfuil Breatnais acu.
- Gan teorainn
NÍL “TEORAINN” le tábhacht RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta i gcur chun cinn agus caomhnú na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta, a dúirt Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, a scríobhann Seán Tadgh Ó Gairbhí.
Music »
Fifty-two hours, 51 players - and then there were fourThe Dublin International Piano Competition is down to its final four. So what does it tell us about the state of piano playing today, and where have all the Irish pianists gone?
The HorrorsMandela Hall, Belfast
Books »
BookedBusiness thinking between the covers
Chick lit goes a raunchy shade of blueTHE PUBLICATION OF EL James’s e-book Fifty Shades trilogy has become one of the big cultural stories of the year. It is notable for several reasons, not least because James, a British debut author, has already been listed as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.
Comment & Media »
The thrill of the kill?Violence and art have a long history. The Greeks found a balance between them, depicting brutality without being overwhelmed by it. Now, in an age of extreme violence, artists struggle to look it in the face without being thrilled or turned to stone
Doing it for themselves: Edna O'Brien and the brides of FrancTV REVIEW: ‘LITERARY SCENES CAN be very over-rated,” said Edna O’Brien in Life, Stories (RTÉ1, Tuesday), a beautifully made, carefully considered profile of her life. For this arts documentary – at last, an arts documentary on RTÉ! – directed by Charlie McCarthy, concentrated not on her work but on O’Brien, teasing out through a series of interviews her development as a writer and her enviably colourful life in London, where she lived as a literary outsider who still managed to know everybody.
