Culture
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Laughter Lines
“Gervais, like Woody Allen, is always the same”
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Print And Be Damned
“The last century saw a steady rise in the status of prints. They were a crucial element of German Expressionism and Pop Art…”
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Interview: Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg will be seventy this year. Not that you’d know it from his evenly lined face and more specifically his beautifully coiffed, luxurious chestnut hair that is deserving of as many adjectives as a thesaurus has to offer. Only the filmmaker David Lynch can rival him in being so fantastically follicled. There is a […]
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Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809) was a British revolutionary, radical, inventor, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He lived and worked in Britain until he was 37, when he emigrated to America, in time to participate in the Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating […]
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U2’s music is acclaimed, but its members pursuit of profit is not very Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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John Rawls (1921-2002) is often said to be the greatest political philosopher of the twentieth century. He was a professor at Harvard University in the right-on seventies. His most famous work is A Theory of Justice (1971). He refined it endlessly which made an already over-elaborate theory even trickier. His theory is intricate, full of […]
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I recently discovered that the famous Hollywood heart-throb, Matthew McConaughey, and myself, have something in common. We would both like our children to learn Irish in a Gaeltacht. I am already ahead of him slightly as I am raising my toddler here in the Connemara Gaeltacht, the same one that I was raised in for […]