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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 01 February 2013
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He appeared in the doorway of my study one day in 1971 and asked if I was the one who was starting a course in Australian literature. His voice was soft and melodic, his accent beautifully Irish. Born in Belfast in 1947, he had grown up amid the horrors of 'The Troubles' and would in later years refer to himself as 'a recovering Catholic'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 20 September 2011
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When it comes to leopards changing spots or terrorists turning into statesmen, former IRA chief-of-staff Martin McGuinnes is up there with Mandela and Mugabe. His entry into Ireland's presidential race on the weekend is significant, as the rest of the field is desolately dull.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When I met Peter Steele I noticed a spark, a
shimmer of wit that almost subverted his serious courtesy. There was a wild mind at work and play, and I would have to
run prodigiously fast even to catch at its stirrups. So it has proved: it's been a long, vigorous, and exultantly
grateful following.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Medbh McGuckian
- 02 June 2009
It is as impossible .. To dive into the heart of a woman as to run .. Your head, body and all into her fundament.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 12 March 2009
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney's spiritual journey could be seen as a casualty of the so-called secularising effect of the '60s and '70s. Heaney describes a shift from faith as external and ritualistic, to something more personal.
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RELIGION
- Ursula Stephens
- 26 March 2007
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Even though St Patrick's Day has not yet arrived, I have already received several cards and messages. Some came the old-fashioned way, delivered by the postman, but most were like my friend Colleen's, the virtual variety, and arrived with a "ping' in my inbox.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 24 July 2006
While musing on current events in Lebanon, Brian Matthews' globe of memory begins to spin back to a time and place perhaps not so different to today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Coffey
- 10 July 2006
Margaret Coffey reviews Sean McConville’s weighty tome, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922, Theatres of War.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andra Jackson
- 26 June 2006
Justice has become a life’s work for the Guildford Four’s Paul Hill.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 29 April 2006
The road towards a Spain free from ETA violence remains one fraught with peril.
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AUSTRALIA
- Hugh Dillon
- 27 April 2006
Real peace is likely to come to Northern Ireland only when a new generation sets aside the long-dead icons of 1916 and 1922.
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