Culture
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How we discourage Irish thought
We hear calls for Irish intellectuals, not only economists, to produce new thinking about the present and future of Irish society and politics. In effect these are calls for Irish intellectuals to help the nation by becoming creative thinkers about the human condition and its requirements in Ireland now. Such calls are understandable in the […]
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kind of musician/composer is Paul McCartney? This may seem like an odd question, given that his unprecedented and unparalleled commercial success, even if it has not always been matched by concomitant critical approval, means that everyone thinks they have the story on Paul. After all, McCartney is listed in The Guinness Book Of Records as […]
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Some Spice Amid The Sugar
Being good at pop means his rockier and art-rock sides sometimes lose ou
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The Porn Myth
The ready availability of pornography and sexual imagery desensitises men to real women
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How We Discourage Irish Thoughts
“There is no weekly or monthly magazine of ideas in which Irish thinkers might present their thought in a sustained manner”
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Height in Dublin City By Michael Smith Dublin City Council is pushing a high-rise strategy through the Development Plan variation process. After fractious public meetings it has toned down an initial draft of what it called in somewhat Orwellian terms: “Maximising the City: A strategy for densification and height”. If successful it will come into […]
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Arts Come To Town
Arts Come To Town