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Landmark Dublin music venue JJ Smyths to shut

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Cormac Larkin
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The unofficial home to Dublin’s jazz and blues scene for the past 30 years will close its doors later this month

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Songs of the week: A Tribe Called Quest, Marlene Enright, Alicia Keys and Aaron Gibson

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Could Leonard Cohen’s music have made it in the modern world?

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Jim Carroll
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If he was a new artist today, the genius of Cohen would surely be lost in the noise of music-journalism clickbait and listicles

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Leonard Cohen’s son Adam pays heartfelt tribute to his father

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Adam Cohen acknowledges his father’s kindness, work and fans

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Donal Dineen
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Jim Carroll
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Eileen Battersby
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‘I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream’

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Joseph O'Connor
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A gifted novelist and poet, Leonard Cohen brought a deft sense of narrative to songs that will never be forgotten

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Lara Marlowe
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Stéphane Lissner, the director of the French national opera, is going all out to recruit new opera-lovers

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‘That’s why I am Leonard Cohen’: the singer and the Mumbai party

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Brian Ingle
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Leonard Cohen and I struck up a friendship in the crazy beautiful city by the Arabian Sea

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November 11, 2016

Writers, poets, friends and fans reflect on Leonard Cohen’s words, music and work

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Leonard Cohen’s favourite venues: ‘The Kremlin and Lissadell’

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Rodney Edwards
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Visit to Sligo house allowed songwriter to ‘connect with W.B. Yeats’, Lissadell owner recalls

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Leonard Cohen was the mams’ sexy man

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Louise Bruton
November 11, 2016

Leonard Cohen was the generational connect, an act that made you realise, as a moody teenager, that your parents were edgy and hip

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Leonard Cohen, the poet channelling Byron and Lorca

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Gerard Smyth
November 11, 2016

From the archive: Of all the singer-songwriters of his era labelled as poets, Cohen was perhaps the one who truly bridged the divide

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Best Leonard Cohen covers from Nina Simone to Johnny Cash

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