James Dean
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Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age
- Books
- February 2, 2019, 06:00
Last summer I had my 50th birthday. Fifty, which Victor Hugo called the youth of old age and is, according to George Orwell, the age at which everyone(...)

Robert de Niro: I felt I had to make the ‘F**k Trump’ speech
- Film
- January 14, 2019
Here, with Orson Welles and Spike Lee on the walls, and James Dean and Natalie Wood on the doors to the toilets, is where Robert De Niro might have di(...)

Fear of hair loss used to consume me. Now I don’t think it needs curing
- People
- October 31, 2018, 00:00
I’m being stalked by hair loss clinics. At virtually every online turn I’ve taken in recent weeks I’ve been confronted by ads for companies promising (...)

Joe O’Connor: Bob Dylan the punk and me
- Music
- July 14, 2018, 06:15
Forty years ago I got a summer job on a building site near Dalkey, that picturesque coastal village in south Co Dublin, making tea and running errands(...)

Manic Street Preachers: ‘We want to outdo ourselves and people’s expectations’
- Music
- April 7, 2018, 05:00
Manic Street Preachers singer James Dean Bradfield has very vivid memories of their first Dublin show back in the mists of 1991 that are slightly more(...)

Top of the Pops was the perfect pop show: its return should be a triumph
- Music
- July 21, 2017, 12:48
Thursday evenings were sacred in our house growing up. It was the night of the week that my mam did the “big shop”. While I was busy attempting to sly(...)

Public Broadcasting Service - Every Valley: a record with a serious wallop
- Music
- July 6, 2017, 15:45
Time for a very different sort of broadcast. Public Service Broadcasting have made hay to date from blending voicerovers from old wartime newsreels an(...)

David Keenan: 'Music and words are my safety rope'
- People
- June 2, 2017, 07:00
“It has always been a safety rope to pull me out of the bog, music and words,” says Irish musician David Keenan. Hozier, Damien Dempsey and Glen Han(...)

So 4.2 million people can’t get enough of Brooklyn Beckham. It takes all sorts . . .
- People
- September 11, 2015, 14:00
The queen of England. Those padlocks clogging the railings of a Parisian bridge with love. Himself. A dog. A girl. Himself. A stormtrooper painted (...)