Lewis Carroll
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On what day of the week is Christmas? Use the Doomsday Rule
- Science
- December 17, 2020, 06:01
An old nursery rhyme begins “Monday’s child is fair of face/Tuesday’s child is full of grace”. Perhaps character and personality were determined by th(...)

Gawping at other Irish people’s houses. It’s who we are
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 26, 2020, 12:24
Freud once said of the Irish: “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever”. He was essentially wrong, of course (oh an(...)

This week’s theatre: Country Girls hit the Abbey while Alice returns to Wonderland
- Stage
- March 9, 2019, 05:00
The Country Girls Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Ends Apr 6th, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm) €13-€45 abbeytheatre.ie A remarkable story of shedding innocence and tho(...)

Whispers of Eastern colour from composer Barry O’Halpin
- Music
- December 12, 2018, 05:00
“Just beyond the confines of Western tuning” is how composer Barry O’Halpin (b. 1987) neatly describes one aspect of his piece grave goods for solo el(...)

Panto review: Alice: The Musical at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
- Stage
- December 10, 2018, 11:27
ALICE: THE MUSICAL ★★★★☆ Lyric Theatre, Belfast Many a time and oft, the unravelling craziness of Brexit has been described as closely resembling Ali(...)

Did T2 Trainspotting 2 really happen? Or am I confusing the film with a weekend spent contemplating mortality with my least interesting contemporaries(...)

Autechre: ‘Something happens when you listen to music in the dark’
- Music
- July 14, 2018, 05:00
Electronic musicians tend to stage elaborate live shows featuring dazzling lights, eye-popping visuals, and all sorts of bells and whistles. Kraftwerk(...)

Presumed innocent: a history of adolescent sexuality
- Culture
- February 3, 2018, 14:46
Hey little girl, is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire, I’m on fire I once believed there was something timele(...)

Britain is deluded when it comes to its global future
- Economy
- December 4, 2017, 15:06
The White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass claimed to believe six impossible things before breakfast. Alas, a recent pamphlet from t(...)

When the British mention the Border, I turn to Lewis Carroll
- Europe
- November 16, 2017, 01:00
Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Qu(...)