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Prayer between the bogs
Hunched into the summit of a steep drumlin close to Glaslough village is Donagh old graveyard. Like many old ecclesiastical sites called Donagh, which means church, it is believed to be of Patrician foundation. Less than 15 miles from Armagh, where St Patrick was based between 440 and 490 AD, this lofty site in the […]
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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