Culture

The passion for art had been there since I was a child

A polyglot, over-broad path to revolutionFrank Armstrong reviews Theodore Zeldin’s ‘The Hidden Pleasures of Mankind: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future’

By John Horgan Is the writers’ and artists’ tax exemption scheme now on life support? Suspicions that this might be the case were first aroused when it was disclosed last year that a review of this scheme instituted by Finance Minister Michael Noonan last year had “abolition on the table”. It has now emerged that […]

By Jim O’ Callaghan. One of the many social changes that sociologists and social historians of the future will examine is the change associated with participation in competitive sport in Ireland over the past twenty years. Throughout the twentieth century rugby in Ireland was a participation sport centred on clubs throughout the 32 counties, with […]

The Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre was established in 1904 and became the first State-subsidised theatre in the world, and ultimately one of the best brands in world theatre. Worthy, certainly; old, yes: the question is more whether it is any good, or any good bearing in mind the resources that go into it. The Abbey […]

  One of the many social changes that sociologists and social historians of the future will examine is the change associated with participation in competitive sport in Ireland over the past twenty years. Throughout the twentieth century rugby in Ireland was a participation sport centred on clubs throughout the 32 counties, with many clubs fielding […]