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British military justice backfired in the case of Irish ‘Tommies’ By Brian Flanagan School history teaches that World War I’s causes were complex: Nationalism, Militarism, Imperial ambition and decline. Sometimes the slogans were simpler: ‘the shot heard around the world’, ‘over by Christmas’, and ‘the war to end war’. New research into the Irish experience […]
Eavan Boland’s ousts George Berkeley’s name from TCD’s main Library but others too need to move on
Lucy McCabe reviews Deirdre Mulrooney’s ‘Full Capacity’: correcting the narrative of what led gifted Lucia Joyce into, and then out of, modern dance
The state of theatre in Dublin: nobody’s talking about quality; and many want funding diverted away from the capital
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Tony Lowes reviews ‘War’ by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The toxic sexes in Rooney, Boyne and Keegan: responsible and caring is best for man and woman
Butchering romance J Grafton Street’s Glass Mask Theatre is offering a delightfully unpleasant chance to observe two people destroy each other from 11 February to 1 March. Men’s Business is Simon Stephens’ widely acclaimed translation of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s rarely performed 1972 cult classic, Mannersache. Rex Ryan and Lauren Farrel star as Victor, a welder with strong opinions about […]