http://www.irishtimes.com Articles from The Irish Times - Weekend en-ie Copyright 2009, irishtimes.com. The Irish Times 2009-11-21T00:00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/ http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/rss_logo.gif Search for articles on irishtimes.com keywords http://www.irishtimes.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259219954.html NEXT SATURDAY MORNING, a week from today, the former taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to launch his autobiography in the Waterstone’s bookshop in the Quays Shopping Centre, Newry. Fortunately for Ahern, Irene from Darndale did her shopping in the Quays last Wednesday. “It’s a shame he’s not here today,” she says. “I’d knock the head off him.” writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE Text Weekend TopStories 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259219954 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218956.html WHEN FR SEÁN McKenna told his parishioners in Derry this week that he was stepping down to pursue “a loving, beautiful and life-giving relationship” in his private life, his parishioners gave him a standing ovation. He didn’t want to live a double life any longer and they understood, writes KATE HOLMQUIST Text Weekend TopStories 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218956 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218921.html Having been shortlisted once again for the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award, John Banville jokes that he’ll avoid the subject altogether in the future, writes FIONA McCANN Text Weekend TopStories 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218921 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218935.html PRESENT TENSE:GRRR. AARGH. What an angry week it was. On Sunday night, Yusuf Islam irked a room full of people. But on Wednesday, Thierry Henry provoked an entire nation. We had been cheated out of a World Cup place. Or, though it wasn’t admitted, we had been robbed of our chance to lose it for ourselves. Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218935 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218887.html Every evening they show up outside the ATT offices at 14th and H Streets, men and women clutching sleeping bags and small tents, staking out a few square metres to bed down for the night. The overhang of the building protects them from rain, and it is well lit. Warm air wafts up through the grates of the metro. By 10pm, the pavement is carpeted with dozens of homeless people. It is exactly two blocks from the White House, writes LARA MARLOWE, Washington Correspondent Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218887 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218905.html GRANTED, IF you are a member of the opposition we know that you are against NAMA. But now we also know that it’s a battle to make sure the hair doesn’t take over as a talking point, as Joan Burton said in a Tweet, writes HARRY McGEEPolitical Staff Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218905 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218727.html Since stepping down as UN assistant secretary general in 1998, Denis Halliday has never been busier and remains a passionate campaigner for human rights, writes LORNA SIGGINS Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218727 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218764.html People have always loved to gossip but, as a new book explains, thanks to the internet even the most rumours can spread at an incredible speed, writes BRIAN O’CONNELL Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218764 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218786.html PROFILE: BELLE DE JOUR:DR BROOKE MAGNANTI admits to being “something of a master in the art of compartmentalisation”. That’s a bit of an understatement. Because for the last six years, the 34-year-old Bristol-based research scientist (her specialism is developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology) has successfully concealed the fact that she worked as a London “call girl” and wrote a wildly explicit blog, under the pseudonym Belle de Jour, chronicling her experiences, writes FIONOLA MEREDITH Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218786 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218830.html A recent report suggests that, despite being generally more overweight than women, Irish men are less motivated to get in better, healthier shape, writes KEVIN COURTNEY Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218830 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218837.html Margaret Maher c.1845-1924 Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218837 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218481.html THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: TONY WHEELER:THERE IS a globe in the library of the Galway hotel where I’m interviewing Tony Wheeler, a particularly apt object, given it is the world that has made him his fortune. Tony Wheeler is better known as Mr Lonely Planet, the title of the guide books series that sold their 100th millionth copy last month. Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218481 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218814.html A glance at  the week  that was
Text Weekend News features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218814 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218441.html ARTSCAPE:THE PROPOSED amalgamation of Imma, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has been Government policy since it was announced last year, though no concrete plans have emerged. And the public forum at Imma on Wednesday was the first open discussion of the proposal. The forum was attended by close to 200 people involved in the visual arts, and speakers included international museum directors, academics, arts administrators, gallerists, artists, and economist Jim Power. Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218441 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218464.html A new book of poetry by Tom Mathews reveals ‘the fruit of a very brilliant mind’ Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218464 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218544.html IN JULY of this year, President Obama was to speak to the American people on prime-time television to announce details of important changes to the healthcare system in the US. He requested the usual 9pm slot from the NBC network. NBC replied by saying that they would be delighted to offer the president the 8pm slot. The president said thanks, but 9pm is the traditional time for addressing the nation. NBC said the 8pm slot is great – you’ll love it, Mr President. Obama asked whether there was a problem. NBC said there was indeed a problem, Mr President. And its name was Susan Boyle, writes BRIAN BOYD Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218544 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218520.html CULTURE SHOCK:MOST POTTED BIOGRAPHIES of Raymond Chandler will tell you that, in 1895, after his parents divorced, his mother took him from Chicago, where he was born, to London, where he grew up. In fact, the boy and his mother went originally to her own place of birth – Waterford, where they lived uncomfortably on the fringes of respectable Protestant society. It was from there that Chandler went to London, where he was supported through his English public-school education by his uncle, the Waterford solicitor Ernest Thornton, writes FINTAN O’TOOLE Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218520 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218413.html Project Arts Centre, Dublin Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218413 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259235765.html Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259235765 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216682.html BIOGRAPHY: Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsBy Linda Gordon Norton, 560pp. £25 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216682 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216670.html FICTION: UnionBy John Mulcahy ABDEF, 283pp. €12.99 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216670 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216696.html FICTION: Truth or FictionBy Jennifer Johnston Headline, 152pp. £14.99 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216696 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216647.html FICTION: The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun)By Vladimir Nabokov Penguin, 278pp, £25.00 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216647 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216633.html HISTORY: The Lady in the Tower - The Fall of Anne BoleynBy Alison Weir Jonathan Cape, 416pp. £20 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216633 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216524.html BIOGRAPHY: Charles DickensBy Michael Slater Yale University Press, 696pp. £25 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216524 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216553.html ANTHOLOGY: Are We Related? The New Granta Book of the FamilyEdited by Liz Jobey Granta Books, 408pp, £20.00 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216553 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216574.html A literary roundup Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216574 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216866.html ESSAYS: Love of the World: Essays By John McGahern. Edited by Stanley van der Ziel Faber, 448pp. £20 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216866 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216887.html POETRY: FirefliesBy Frank Ormsby Carcanet Press, 80pp. £9.95, The Thing IsBy Peter Sirr The Gallery Press, 80pp. €11.95pbk, €18.50 hbk Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216887 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216848.html A roundup of today's paperbacks
Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216848 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218597.html NESTLED BEHIND carefully pruned hedges on Belfast’s resolutely middle-class Somerton Road is an unexpected landmark. In a town where religion and politics have been intertwined stands the synagogue of the Belfast Hebrew Congregation, an unassuming modernist building that is home to a faith community that has been in the city for decades, writes JASON WALSH Text Weekend Heritage & Habitat 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218597 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218573.html ANOTHER LIFE:NOW THAT autumn seems bent on sliding seamlessly into spring, it can take half the winter for some plants to slow down. My morning trips to the raingauge wear a deepening trail in the grass. But most wayside plants, I am pleased to see, are still crumpling on seasonal cue, retiring to rest in root-buds, rhizomes, belly-button rosettes. Text Weekend Heritage & Habitat 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218573 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259218625.html A heritage and habitat roundup
Text Weekend Heritage & Habitat 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259218625 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216602.html TV REVIEW:
Away With the FaroesRTÉ2, Tuesday I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!TV3 and UTV, all week World Cup Qualifier: France v IrelandRTÉ2, Wednesday EnidBBC4, Monday Text Weekend Seen & Heard 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216602 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216617.html RADIO REVIEW:IS IT possible that Morning Ireland(RTÉ Radio One, weekdays) is finally ready to cast off its black mantilla and come out of mourning for the Irish economy? Waking up to this programme has been a bit like turning over on the pillow only to find the Bride of Frankenstein lying next to you, complaining about another draconian measure rumoured to be in next month’s budget. Text Weekend Seen & Heard 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216617 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1121/1224259216583.html SO THERE I am, minding my own business, pouring eight sackloads of documents from a financial institution that shall remain nameless into the shredder, hurting nobody, actually content in my work, even if it ismanual labour? That’s when I hear a voice that somehow always manages to switch off my happiness at the mains, writes ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY Text Weekend Seen & Heard 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259216583