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  • Southern belles on the ball

    They may look like nice cowgirls from Texas, but Grammy-winning trio the Dixie Chicks are bucking the good ol' country boys network. The chicks with attitude chat to Brian Boyd. p

  • Sex, lies and video verite

    Phil Collins looks at the world through a starkly candid lens. His latest work is the topical 'Baghdad Screentests', writes Aidan Dunne. p
Arts

  • Hot off the presses at Sugar Club

    ON THE TOWN: The rock 'n' roll fraternity came out to party at the Sugar Club on Dublin's Leeson Street this week, writes Catherine Foley.   p

  • Double dose of Killarney

    Killarney hopes to woo thousands to its streets this summer. For motor sport enthusiasts, there's the Rally of the Lakes 2003 in early May, while in June there's Killarney SummerFest 2003, which is expected to attract more than 120,000 people. p

  • Dancing dreams

    At a party in Temple Bar's Project this week, members of the Institute of Choreography and Dance announced the recipient of its first fellowship award. p

  • Coming of 'Leaving'

    The actors and accents of Monaghan were in Dublin this week for their first Dublin performance of Leaving by Philip Osment. p

  • Doyle brings Charlo to the stage

    ArtScape/Deirdre Falvey: 'I'm just glad they didn't make it a one-woman show," said Brian F. O'Byrne, as well the NY-based Irish actor might - he's to play Charlo in the first stage adaptation of Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. p
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  • A controversial, contradictory hero

    Biography: Among the varied and extraordinary cast that participated in the drama that was the Irish independence movement of the early 20th Century, Robert Erskine Childers is arguably the most enigmatic, writes Conor Brady. p

  • Misunderstanding Algeria

    Politics: At the beginning of the 21st century, the Algerian catastrophe is on a scale comparable to the genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya. Unfortunately, Hugh Roberts's book does little to advance our understanding of the country's history or the current state of affairs there, writes Lara Marlowe. p

  • Getting it wrong about Rome

    Archaeology: This book has an attractive cover but inside the presentation is poor. The illustrations vary from bad to abysmal and personal names such as ORíodáin, Culfield, Corringwood-Bruce, Coewen, Wagner (Warner!) demonstrate the poor copy-editing which is, in fact, apparent from as early as the acknowledgments page, writes Barry Raftery. p

  • Waggish tales of a wandering shaggy dog

    Fiction: From the 101 very short stories in his first book, Anthropology , to the slightly longer short stories in his second book, Don't Tell Me The Truth About Love , Dan Rhodes has now worked himself up to a novel. Fans of earlier work, though, won't be disappointed: it's episodic, writes Ian Sansom. p

  • The comfort of creatures

    Philosophy: On sight of this book, a person not unconnected with these pages coined an elegant if politically incorrect aphorism: "Animals," she said, "are the new blacks."  John Banville reviews The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita. p

  • More to it than it says on the label

    Crime: Probably to be bracketed in the Mystery/Thriller/Crime sections of most bookshops, Robert Wilson's new novel far surpasses this genre labelling, writes Vincent Banville. p

  • Child star in a cast of ghosts

    Fiction: It begins with a dead body, and it ends with another corpse, but Personality is concerned with many varieties of death, most particularly perhaps the failure of illusion and the shallow comfort of dreams, writes Eileen Battersby. p

  • Tracking the mystic of Mecca

    Biography: Muhammad, the subject of Barnaby Rogerson's biography, is a figure of giant stature and abiding importance. He was, after all, the founder of one of the greatest empires of the world, creator of classical Arabic and of a worldwide religion that now has many millions of followers, write Mary Russell. p

  • Paperbacks

    Irish Times reviewers cast a critical eye over the latest batch of paperbacks. p
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  • Meath's medieval monolith

    Trim Castle is one of the finest examples of Norman architecture still standing in Ireland today, writes Eileen Battersby. p

  • More headaches for the Vertigo specialists

    ANOTHER LIFE: In a world just now convulsed by the big and the violent, the tiny snails called Vertigo seem dizzyingly insignificant. Their lives are spent in totally peaceful obscurity, down at the damp roots of grasses and moss, writes Michael Viney. p

  • Horizons

    Doctors of compost: Teaching second-level students the science of composting is the latest idea for spreading the word about this green, clean way to dispose of organic household refuse. p

  • Eye on Nature

    Michael Viney responds to reader's queries and observations on nature. p

  • EcoWeb

    www.irishbutterflies.com : As the butterfly season starts, this is the place to check out sightings and identify the species in your own garden. p
Seen & HeardBack to Top

  • Not at all going to plan

    TV Review/Shane Hegarty: The people at Fox News are confused, a little hurt even. They can kind of understand why those dreadful Iraqi and Chinese journalists ask the wrong questions at the Qatar Central Command briefings, but on Wednesday there was a guy with an Australian accent hounding the US military spokesman over the Baghdad marketplace bombing. "An Australian accent!" repeated the news anchor. Of all the darn things for a journalist to have. p

  • The white noise of Western propaganda

    Radio Review/Harry Browne: With customary timing, in the midst of a global crisis, RTÉ Radio 1's new radio campaign for itself assures would-be advertisers that it's the home on the dial for abusive, idiotic, content-free argument. p

  • Give my regards to Fade Street

    The Last Straw/Frank McNally: I was delighted to see the publication recently of Dublin Tourism's guide to dining out in the city. It's mainly for tourists, of course, but locals will benefit too. Especially from its insistence that restaurants should be able to offer a two-course meal for under €30, 20, and - excuse me while I fall around laughing - €10. p
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