Maya Angelou
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Poemhunter’s poem a day keeps bad news at bay
- Technology
- August 29, 2019, 06:20
If you were to ask me I would tell you that I’m not the biggest poetry fan. Other than a brief period of interest in Yeats when I was 15 I don’t often(...)

Beyoncé’s Homecoming: Surprise live album drops with Netflix film
- TV, Radio, Web
- April 17, 2019, 14:40
“Instead of me pulling out my flower crown, it was more important that I brought our culture to Coachella,” Beyoncé says in Homecoming, the new docume(...)

The best things about teaching? For some it’s June, July and August
- Education
- March 12, 2019, 00:00
There are really only two types of teachers: those who started out wanting to teach and those who ended up teaching because they couldn’t get anything(...)

An Irish bodhran player meets the hidden drummers of Iran
- Abroad
- July 17, 2018, 11:00
“What is the purpose of your trip, and why so many cameras?” It was a familiar question during my trip to Iran in January to film my first documentary(...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Tom Hesketh wrote an important book called The Second Partitioning of Ireland? The 1983 Abortion Referendum. He explained that in 1983, a fissure had (...)

First woman chair of Cork GAA urges other women to apply for top level positions
- Irish News
- May 20, 2018, 15:00
“It’s an emotional time for anyone for who’s been in that situation when you see the poor women who have died and are dying as a result of errors - at(...)

A Wrinkle in Time: Oprah towers over this sprawling, messy film
- Film
- March 21, 2018, 09:50
Mr Murry (Chris Pine), a brilliant physicist, has disappeared without a trace. He left behind his research partner and wife (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a young(...)

Dr Maya Angelou once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them”. On Thursday, we were shown something, and we ought to sit up and pay att(...)

Trump and the rise of fascism: it’s not just the economy, stupid
- People
- November 14, 2016
There are myriad reasons for Trump’s rise to power: patriarchy, white supremacy, neoliberalism, Islamophobia, decades of Republican propaganda cultiva(...)