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Temper-mental MissElayneous
Everything about Temper-Mental MissElayneous is out of step with the world of modern pop. And that is a criticism of the state of pop rather than the artist I shall refer to as Miss Elayneous. If pop was once the battleground of maverick innovators it is now the playground of rich calculators. Every publicity photo […]
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Particular, not pedantic
Recently in the Irish Times (IT), Jennifer O’Connell wrote a column ‘Ten phrases we Irish could live without’ and the piece was as throwaway as the putrid prose she was targeting. She should look closer to home: leaf through that newspaper’s Saturday magazine and entertainment supplement – they are loaded with the very phrases she […]
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You can’t have a memorial of something that is not yet history An Bord Pleanála should say no to commemorating residential abuse with a tunnel next to the military memorial on Parnell Square ‘the Journey of Light is drab, unimaginative, insensitive, visionless – and grandiose’ Mannix Flynn In late September, An Bord Pleanála heard appeals […]
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An Bord Pleanála should say no to commemorating residential abuse with a tunnel next to the military memorial on Parnell Square
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Séamus Heaney, the public man
Frugal and gentle but political and not unassuming, he conquered all
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Crying the brutal truth before dawn
Recessionary band Cry before Dawn were uniquely serious in the 1980s, and have survived
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Let culture out
The state must respect and resource the cultural lives of poor communities not simply as audiences but as creators, producers, commentators, critics and decision-makers