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- We can't write down Anglo, but we can write a musical about it
Sat, May 19, 2012A joke about the Fiscal Treaty had all the impact of a damp campaign poster - Why the cultural boycott of Israel is a blunt and backward instrumentSat, May 19, 2012 CULTURE SHOCK: IN THE 1970S AND 1980s, I was an active member of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and supported the cultural boycott against South Africa.
- The thrill of the kill?
Sat, May 12, 2012Violence 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 - Camera is a little too candid in New York sitcom
Tue, May 8, 2012Lena Dunham’s new sitcom may be true to life, for a narrow white American elite, but it is too close to the bone to make anything but unpleasant viewing, writes
ROSEMARY Mac CABE - Five stars? I don't f*****g think so
Sat, May 5, 2012On a bus near you, a
DONALD CLARKE quote is selling'Charlie Casanova. The problem? He didn't like the film and he really doesn't like the ads - Culture can't save us, but it sounds sweeter than ignorance
Sat, May 5, 2012 CULTURE SHOCK: IT EMERGED LAST WEEK that midranking officers at the US Joint Forces Staff College were being taught in one course that “the United States is at war with Islam”. Not radical, violent Islamism but Islam itself. - All is fair in love and online comments, but don't let it get ugly
Sat, May 5, 2012I KNOW I’M NOT alone among columnists who scrabble around for subjects, then poke, criticise, crack some weak jokes, stick their email addresses at the end and send their pieces to print only to open their emails the next morning and pause at the YOUR COLUMN yelling from the inbox. One clicks on that email with the trepidation of a bomb-disposal officer not quite sure if he shouldn’t cut the red wire instead of the blue. - Mike Murphy's public service message about the artsSat, Apr 28, 2012IT’S RARE WE get an RTÉ presenter having a public go at the broadcaster.
- Mythological mediocrity: his early play shows how much Yeats needed Ireland
Sat, Apr 28, 2012 CULTURE SHOCK WE LIKE TO think that artistic geniuses are born, not made. They emerge from childhood with a phenomenal, inexplicable gift. And sometimes this is true: Rimbaud had done all his poetic work by the age of 19; Keats died at 25 but had already created a body of work that remains radiant. But these iconic figures may be misleading. Often, geniuses have to make themselves the hard way: slowly and gradually. - Teletext clings on in some corners of techie nostalgia, such as RTÉ
Sat, Apr 21, 2012OF ALL THE glittering riches of the internet, few are as counterintuitive as Aertel on the web. With its obese pixels and bald text and its limited palette on a black background, it sits on
rte.ieoblivious to the funfair of facts, pictures and film crowded around it. It was made for TV, but is a proto-web somehow clinging on as technology evolves. Reading it online is like dissecting a butterfly to find the caterpillar still wriggling inside.
