Eamon Carr

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Clockwise from left: Frances Black, Darina Allen, John Creedon, Eavan Boland, Ann Rossiter, Ailbhe Smyth, Brendan Gleeson and Sheila Gallagher
Sharing wisdom in a time of crisis: 25 ways to live your life to the full

Brendan Gleeson, Eavan Boland, JOHN CREEDON, DARINA ALLEN and others pass on advice during this uncertain time It can be hard to take stock when(...)

DIY diplomats: Songs from the Fever Ship lyricist Eamon Carr, singer-songwriter Eamonn Dowd and album curator John Fleming walk by the quays of the Garonne in Bordeaux. Photograph: Killian Ginnity
Merchants of Bordeaux: DIY diplomats shake hands with ‘Wine Geese’ ghosts
  • Music
  • November 26, 2019, 05:00

The boat cuts along the swirling Garonne towards the Cité du Vin. En route: the Bourse as a badge of a bourgeois town. Invisible from the quayside is (...)

The funeral of Frank Murray at Mount Argus, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke
Frank Murray was ‘a hugely proud Irishman full of culture’

The late music manager Frank Murray joined “the great rock and roll, roll call of 2016”, his daughter Shannon told his funeral Mass on Tuesday. “Awe(...)

Geraldine Branagan, Phil Coulter and Eamonn Campbell at the funeral at Mount Jerome, Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
‘Hypnotic mesmerism’ of singer Jim McCann is recalled at funeral in Dublin

Jim McCann was “one of the brightest, wittiest, and sweetest men I ever knew,” songwriter Phil Coulter said at the singer’s funeral in Dublin. “He wa(...)

Horslips members and old friends Jim Lockhart (left) and Barry Devlin. Photograph: Eric Luke
First Encounters: Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart
  • People
  • October 18, 2014, 01:00

Jim Lockhart is a musician, radio and TV producer and a member of Celtic rock band Horslips. Formed in the 1970s, Horslips disbanded in 1980 and came (...)

A detail from the cover of It’s The Stars Will Be Our Lamps by Alan Walsh
Thoroughly modern myth is part of wider trend
  • Books
  • February 5, 2014, 11:15

I was living in London when I started reading the old Irish stories again. I had gone there for work and had started missing home pretty hard. It’s a (...)

Eamon Carr: ‘I found the cumulative effect of the horror stories I was reporting on from the North difficult to shake off.’ Photograph: Eric Luke
A modern fable: Deirdre of the Troubles

‘Yer man. Who does he think he is?” asks Eamon Carr, parodying possible reaction to his new book. A verse play, it occupies the Deirdre of the Sorrows(...)