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Anarchy in the UK: Brexit, Billy Bragg and punk rock
- Music
- August 2, 2019, 10:20
This week the veteran English protest singer Billy Bragg joined us for a chat on the Irish Times politics podcast (which, I am contractually obliged t(...)

Dead Dog in a Suitcase review: An abrasive, ragged comic opera
- Stage
- July 18, 2019, 11:12
DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS) Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway ★★★★☆ “Who’d shoot a dog?” somebody wails early in Kneehigh’s splenetic(...)

Scorsese’s Bob Dylan doc tangles up the truth with style
- Culture
- June 22, 2019, 05:00
It’s a bit early for Oscar predictions. I can nonetheless confirm that Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (that really is the(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Brexit
- Books
- December 1, 2018, 05:45
If you are English and in your 50s or early 60s, two things are likely to be true of you. One is that in 2016 you voted to leave the European Union: 6(...)

Fintan O’Toole: ‘There is no future in England’s dreaming’
- Opinion
- November 20, 2018, 06:00
On Friday morning, trying to get away from Brexit, I got on an exercise machine to mortify the flesh. Fleeing the radio, I turned my iPod on to shuffl(...)

Triumph of American values has left US unsure of its own identity
- US
- October 4, 2018, 01:00
The nondescript hall, the accented oaths, the rivulets of tears across cheeks of all colours: citizenship ceremonies differ little. You can see this r(...)

Béatrice Dalle: ‘I’ve never thought I’m beautiful, but I have a power of attraction’
- Film
- June 11, 2018
Can it really be true, I ask Béatrice Dalle, that you seduced the English actor Rupert Everett? “Bah ouais,” she replies as we chat in a cafe near her(...)

Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The Gate
- Stage
- January 30, 2018, 05:00
In the Gate Theatre, an institution still reeling from allegations of abuse of power, we now find a man on its stage bullying, demeaning and harassing(...)

The day The Clash and punk turned Trinity into a war zone
- Music
- October 21, 2017, 05:00
‘This was a baptism of fire.” Paul Tipping is remembering his time as the entertainments officer of the students union in Trinity College Dublin in 1(...)

Donald Clarke: Who are you calling punk?
- Culture
- January 28, 2017, 07:00
Imagine if some contemporary artist described himself as a Renaissance painter. You’d kick him in the pants and tell him to pull himself together. Rig(...)