Emma Dabiri

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Body and Soul 2019: festival stage times revealed

Body & Soul Music and Arts Festival has announced the full stage times for its 10th Aniversary celebration of the summer solstice which kicks off (...)

On Today with Sean O’Rourke, the presenter attempts to conjure up the whiff of cordite by recreating the close-fought battles of the previous divorce referendum
Sean O'Rourke recreates past battles for referendum phoney war

There’s a trusty adage about warfare which holds that generals always fight the last war rather than the next one. Whatever about military campaigns, (...)

Emma Dabiri. Photograph: Olivia Harris
Emma Dabiri: ‘I wouldn't want my children to experience what I did in Ireland’
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  • April 27, 2019, 06:00

Growing up in Dublin, Emma Dabiri was the only black person in her sphere of vision. Now living in London, the academic, TV presenter and writer ta(...)

Louise McSharry on Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Rose: These days I don’t really try to impress anyone, and that feels good
What are the beauty products that mean the most to Irish women?

Marian Keyes, author Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair (from €67 at arnotts.ie)  My mother has used it for about 35 years (and her sk(...)

Martin Hayes, Minister for Culture, Josepha Madigan and actress Denise Gough, opening the inaugural Culture Ireland Global Ireland 2025 Conference Photograph: Julien Behal
Campaigning for better conditions for artists in Sellotaped shoes

At the Global Ireland culture conference in Dublin Castle on Thursday, which looked at how to increase Ireland’s global footprint through culture, one(...)

A vote for a young maths teacher Eamon De Valera
Twisty history: RTÉ is covering Election 1918 ‘as it happens’

“Five seconds, four, three, two, one.” We’re on the deck, the control room for the TV studio below, with a wall of screens showing camera views: a pan(...)

Emma Dabiri. Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images
I’m Irish but not white. Why is that still a problem 100 years after the Easter Rising?

I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. One of the first ones I learned, which seared an impression on my young mind, was James Connolly. In the haunti(...)