Derek Jarman
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A few weeks ago, the distributors of Josie Rourke’s workmanlike historical drama embarked on one of the era’s more ill-considered social-media c(...)
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
- Culture
- December 27, 2018, 05:00
Dreaming in Blue Until February 14th Harry Clarke’s dreamy The Eve of Saint Agnes is at the Hugh Lane in Dublin, but you can see his wonderful waterco(...)
‘When the epidemic started I realised that we needed to be considered by society’
- Film
- April 7, 2018, 05:00
Robin Campillo was a 20-year-old film student when the first images of the Aids crisis started to appear in French newspapers. These pictures in(...)
‘The Crying Game’: ‘They wanted me to cast a woman that was pretending to be a man’
- Film
- August 1, 2017
It seems impossible now, but Neil Jordan’s low-budget thriller The Crying Game was a box-office flop when it was initially released in the UK and Irel(...)
Seaside gardening? Cut the grass
- Gardens
- March 11, 2017, 06:00
As an occasionally snarky-minded gardener, there’s a game that I like to play whenever I visit any of Ireland’s more picturesque coastal villages. Cal(...)
Don’t be afraid to dig deep in the garden this year
- Gardens
- January 3, 2015, 01:00
‘New beginnings”, “a fresh start”, “a new leaf”; these are the words that rattle round our heads in the fledgling weeks of a brand new year. In the(...)
Far East Fu fighting: The Yellow Peril – Dr Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinophobia
- Books
- November 8, 2014, 01:00
Christopher Frayling’s book on Chinaphobia is a welcome extension of the work that the Palestinian writer Edward Said initiated with his seminal Orien(...)
