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_______________________________ Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues Martin Blaser Oneworld Publications 2014 _______________________________ Review by Frank Armstrong The overuse of antibiotics in humans and other animals combined with other medical interventions such as Caesarian sections presages disaster according to a new book by Martin Blaser, Professor of Translational Medicine and Director of the […]
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Impose some frugality and share some emotion
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Rónán Lynch interviews the desk-tied Director of the expanding and improving but still independent, democratic and free National Gallery which has 11 galleries open out of 60 but maintains visitors at over 600, 000 annually despite 40% cuts
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The backslapping of the Irish Times revisionist literary fraternity is smug and provincial
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Monb[id]iot Give it up, hero George, and learn how to cook. By Frank Armstrong In an article published in the last edition of Village George Monbiot exhibits a surprising naiveté towards veganism for a writer who is generally authoritative, and clearly a big Village favourite. He recalls how he had “tried it for […]
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By Rod Stoneman. Ethics seem very distant for most discussion of Irish art which has been depoliticised, like much contemporary art internationally. In returning any kind of ethical debate to the domain of the visual arts we can usefully examine multi-screen films – film and audio-visual installations which have extended and replenished notions of fine […]
By Kevin Kiely. Public sculpture in Ireland includes many monstrosities that are heavy and clumpy in their use of materials and ultimately non-artistic. The heavy-gang includes Edward Delaney, John Behan, Rowan Gillespie and Conor Fallon, but there are plenty of others. Delaney is egregious; his ‘Wolfe Tone’ and ‘Thomas Davis’ are part of street-lore. Tone […]