Workers' Solidarity
On a visit to the US an Irish American activist gave me a small notice which once upon a time could be found in boarding...
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Crossing the calm road
Anita Groener's travels over the past three years have left an indelible mark on her artistic palate. She celebrates the road in her new bipartite show.
By Billy Leahy
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Better off lost?
Book Notes felt that one of the major benefits of modern living was the proliferation of bookstores throughout the city and the fact that any book one wanted, within reason, should be within easy reach. However, the tools of Book Notes' trade are new releases to be found on all shelves.
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The city that Paris wants to be
Tom Galvin's latest book, That's Cork, is less of a tourist guide and more of a psychological insight into what makes the quirkiest city in Ireland tick. By David White
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Mind your slanguage
Just a few of the Cork terms that are explained in That's Cork: use one in a sentence today.
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A tale of two nobodies
Christopher Hitchens reviews a new translation of Flaubert's last, unfinished work. This novel was intended to show its author's deep contempt, comedically expressed, for all grand schemes, most especially the Rousseauean ones, to improve the human lot
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Alone in the Dark
Just as Socrates and Descartes, in their different ways, argued for the ability of the human psyche to endure beyond death, film allows us to have the experience of the soul existing without needing a body to contain it. By Wyatt Mason
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The clash of Caste
Thrity Umrigar's novel highlights the futility of the Indian caste system, by Ligaya Mishan
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Krauthammer: In whose national interest?
The Irish Times' new columnist is a leading neocon, a Washington insider who supports torture conditionally and thinks the invasion of Iraq was a risk worth taking. By Colin Murphy
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Real Cool, Poems to Grow Up With
Real Cool, Poems to Grow Up with is a collection of poems for all lovers of poetry and especially for young people whose interest extends beyond the classroom
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Iraq, Iran and China
'Bush's 'messianic mission' to bring democracy to Iraq has failed and the United States has tried, in every possible way, to prevent elections in Iraq. Noam Chomsky asks, whose side are we on – are we preventing democracy or are we on the side of the Iraqi people?
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Junk-food journalism
Political opinion polls in newspapers are little more than junk-food journalism. They may fill acres of newsprint and provide a warm feeling for an editor who gets to fill space conveniently, but they are almost worthless journalistically, devoid of any worthwhile intellectual nutrition.
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Relying on rice
Don't waste your money on par-cooked or boil-in-the-bag rice: it's easy to cook rice once you know which variety and strain will suit your need. Here, Darina Allen discusses the origins and delights of rice
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Majella Holohan has done the State some service in challenging the legal system
One can understand the grief and upset of the Holohan family at the seeming imponderables in how the case against the killer of their son, Wayne O'Donoghue, was conducted and the apparently meagre four-year sentence that was applied. Majella Holohan, in her moving impact statement, expressed wonderment at why certain seemingly obvious evidential facts were not highlighted in the case. Her husband, Mark, expressed disdain at the sentence.
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Robert Holohan case
Fergal Keane reports from Ennis court house where the sentencing of Wayne O'Donoghue was superseded by the moving statement by Majella Holohan which has changed public opinion and raised unanswered questions about the circumstances of Robert Holohan's death
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