Robert Louis Stevenson
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Retracing an 80-year-old journey along the river Shannon
- Books
- September 23, 2020, 05:00
The Ireland of the 1930s was an austere place in which barefoot children played in the streets of a young country where the Catholic Church was all-po(...)

Lost Horizons – Frank McNally on a year of going nowhere
- Opinion
- August 13, 2020, 19:01
The past is a foreign country, as LP Hartley said. Viewed from the exile of this pandemic-haunted summer, even last January now seems like an exotic p(...)

Rediscovering the virtues of potted crab
- Food & Drink
- April 13, 2020, 06:00
Is the art of potting dead and gone? I know many of us make jam, chutneys and other preserves, but what about potted meat and fish? In James Joyce’s U(...)

The Lighthouse: Willem Dafoe is the best screen villain since Daniel Day Lewis
- Film
- January 29, 2020, 15:26
“Doldrums. Doldrums,” warns Willem Dafoe’s salty lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake. “Eviler than the Devil. Boredom makes men to villains.” Following on(...)

George RR Martin: ‘Science fiction has conquered the world’
- Culture
- August 10, 2019, 05:00
THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD OF GAME OF THRONES ON SNOBBERY, FANDOM AND WHY DUBLIN’S WORLDCON NEXT WEEK WILL BE LIKE A FAMILY REUNION Geor(...)

Hung, Thrawn, and Quartered – Frank NcNally on Westminster’s Brexit crisis, as seen through Ulster-Scots
- Opinion
- January 18, 2019, 18:40
Watching BBC’s Newsnight programme on Thursday, I was intrigued to hear presenter Kirsty Wark use the word “thrawn” in a question to an interviewee. I(...)

Are humans losing the ability to be idle?
- Culture
- December 11, 2018, 05:00
Christmas is promoted as a time of rest and idleness but for many of us it’s just another opportunity for work. There are events to organise, presents(...)

A dozen ways to ditch the football
- Life & Style
- July 11, 2018, 16:30
Households around the country will be on World Cup lockdown at 7pm tonight, as England takes on Croatia in the semi-finals. However for those who don’(...)

Seamus Heaney, our dad the poet, by Catherine, Chris and Mick Heaney
- Books
- June 30, 2018, 06:00
Five years after the jolt of Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death we are back at a moment. Back with Heaney, whose poems resonate with the rhythm of the l(...)

Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery
- Books
- October 21, 2017, 06:00
Like their beloved fictional cousin the unreliable narrator, the inadequate narrator of a novel draws the reader into a tale by forcing them to take a(...)