John Lennon
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Magical mystery tour: ‘The public weren’t aware the Beatles had changed’
- Music
- November 25, 2013, 01:00
Paul Howard, biographer of Tara Browne, the 1960s peer, scenester and alleged subject of the Beatles song A Day in the Life, is chatting to film-maker(...)

Imagine all the children thinking in the classroom
- Education
- November 19, 2013, 01:00
John Lennon sang, “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.” Well, primary-school pupils at Balbriggan Educate Together had a shot at wondering ju(...)

Back in the R.O.I – Fifty years on, the Fab Four are still causing a stir in Dublin
- Music
- November 8, 2013, 00:00
There’s no greater debate in rock music: Lennon or McCartney? We sat down with two local musicians to verbally slug it out. In the red corner, repr(...)

Meet The Beatles
- Books
- November 2, 2013, 01:51
As a Beatles scholar, Mark Lewisohn has no serious rival. In books such as The Beatles Recording Sessions and The Complete Beatles Chronicle he took p(...)

Video: Donovan tells TCD of Beatles’ White Album influence
- Music
- October 21, 2013
Renowned folk singer Donovan was to speak tonight in Trinity College Dublin on how he influenced The Beatles’ White Album. Donovan spent eight weeks w(...)

Video: All the news that’s fit to sing
- Life & Style
- August 24, 2013
Once upon a time music was the news. Accounts of battles, rebellions and atrocities travelled from place to place in songs. There were patriotic an(...)

U2-funded children get a chance to record song on board ‘Beatles’ bus
- Irish News
- August 6, 2013, 16:16
Students attached to the U2-funded Music Generation project have been given a chance to participate in a venture founded by another musical icon; John(...)

‘John Lennon Bus’ gives Cork children chance to make music
- Irish News
- July 27, 2013, 01:08
It may have been The Who who penned Magic Bus but it’s the legacy of former Beatle John Lennon that has created a different kind of “magic bus” – one (...)

Dream Skeam: island off Cork for €1.5m
- New to Market
- July 18, 2013, 00:00
The history of West Skeam Island, Roaring Water Bay, west Cork, reads like something from a Dan Brown novel. There’s a rumoured Viking burial ground, (...)

Suarez to travel on Liverpool tour
- English Soccer
- July 16, 2013, 11:05
Liverpool’s wantaway striker Luis Suarez has been included in the 28-man squad for their pre-season tour of Indonesia, Australia and Thailand.Suarez’s(...)