Thomas Moore
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Bring sandwiches for a five-hour Philip Glass marathon – this week’s classical highlights
- Music
- October 26, 2019, 05:00
Saturday 26 PHILIP GLASS RESIDENCY National Concert Hall, Dublin (also Sunday 27) There’s a Philip Glass marathon at the National Concert(...)

Ever looked up at Bewley’s on Grafton Street? Here’s what you’re missing
- Food & Drink
- March 28, 2019, 06:00
You’re walking down Grafton Street in Dublin and duck into Bewley’s, that institution of a coffee house that’s so familiar we hardly ever think about (...)

Happy New You – Frank McNally on the hopes and dreams of January
- Opinion
- January 9, 2019, 18:40
Even if you have no interest in English football, you will probably be aware that something called the “January transfer window” is now open. This lib(...)

Children of Lir: Loudest Whisper revive folk opera to mark 50-year career
- Music
- May 13, 2018, 20:45
It has inspired work by composer Thomas Moore, folklorist Lady Gregory and sculptor Oisin Kelly – and the story of the Children of Lir is about to be (...)

Monument men – An Irishman’s Diary on the Earl of Carlisle, Goldsmith and Burke
- Opinion
- April 25, 2018, 00:01
When the statue of Lord Carlisle was blown from its plinth in the People’s Garden in the Phoenix Park on July 28th, 1958, the incident was news for on(...)

‘Accident prone’ man faces legal bill over ‘opportunistic’ claim
- High Court
- December 8, 2017, 15:21
An “accident prone” man faces a substantial legal costs bill after losing an action for damages against a woman over what he claimed was a traffic acc(...)

Eleanor McEvoy – The Thomas Moore Project album review: Highly evocative collection
- Music
- July 26, 2017, 15:30
Reimagining Thomas Moore, the 19th century poet, songwriter and singer whose Irish Melodies are embedded in folk memory, is the task that Eleanor McEv(...)

Family walks for Christmas
- People
- December 21, 2016, 13:00
Often, I am asked my favourite season for exploring the countryside. Most expect it will be spring or autumn, but actually it’s Christmastime that doe(...)

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox tables £11.7bn bid for Sky
- Media & Marketing
- December 15, 2016, 15:32
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has tabled a formal £11.7 billion (€14 billion) takeover bid for broadcaster Sky. Fox’s offer of £10.75 per share f(...)

Leonard Cohen, the poet channelling Byron and Lorca
- Music
- November 11, 2016, 12:34
‘Now, you know of my deep association and confraternity with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. I could say that when I was a young man, an adolescent, a(...)