Merging and emerging
Two separate exhibitions by two different artists highlight the changing face of contemporary art in Ireland says Billy Leahy
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Short Story:Before the March
The sky they met under was typical for that time of year. The light falling away West, pink and blue, suffused with static electricity. A slight swirling breeze and the feeling that anything might happen...
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The memory lane of back street abortions
Diarmaid Ferriter reviews a new book that looks at the issue of back street abortions in 20th century Ireland and writes of the silence and stigma that still persists
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Adapting Irving
Since the publication four years ago of John Irving's last novel The Fourth Hand, there has been little news of the author except for a few sightings and the release of the film adaptation of his novel A Widow for One Year. A New Beginning is a charity compilation book from Bloomsbury with contributions from 16 authors to raise revenue for tsnumai relief. The impressive roster includes Coelho,McEwan,Coetzee.Atwood,Binchy.Keyes and Mark Haddon. This week also brings the release of Colm Tóibín's, The Master and Tobias Wolf's ,Old School in paperback and Brendan Kennelly's new collection of his favourite work, Familiar Strangers (1964-2004).
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A Che for China
Marxist revolutionary, former prisoner and now a member of Hong Kong's legislative council, the man known as Long Hair has become an icon for China's frustrated democracy movement. By Mark Godfrey
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Thank me
I would like to thank the Oscars for being on soon – that big Thank-in starring a bunch of Thankinsteins.
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District justice?
This week Vitali Vitaliev visits Dublin's district courts, where he witnesses the grim reality of those charged wth petty crimes
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Independent Monitoring Commission is a joke
The report of the Independent Monitoring Commission is an irrelevance. An irrelevance even if any independent credibility could be attached to its findings. On Thursday (10 February) it concluded the IRA was responsible for a series of robberies, including the Northern Bank robbery on 10 December and that senior Sinn Féin people, by which it means Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness, approved of these robberies in advance.
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The inquisitor
John Byrne profiles the man behind the new Centre for Public Inquiry, Frank Connolly
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The trouble with an bosca peaca
The introduction of the sin bin in Gaelic football has added yet another alteration to a constantly mutating history of physical clashes within the game, writes Paul Rouse
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Bertie crosses the line
A small group, mainly of former republican political prisoners, initiated a project last year to publish significant and progressive books about Irish politics which are out of print or not widely available. Their first republished work was C Desmond Greaves' definitive book Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution.
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Villagers: Letters To The Editor 2005-02-12
Around 30 community activists from North and West Belfast took part in a major demonstration in Berlin on Thursday (10 February) to demonstrate against human rights' abuses in Iran. We were rerouted from Paris after the French government banned the demonstration at the behest of the Iranian regime.
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Letters to The Editor 2005-02-12
In response to Vincent Browne's query as to what we citizens can do to help the dire situation in the Irish peace process, I recommend that we hold a protest and call on our fellow citizens to march on our streets for the end to this very serious impasse.
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Valentine's Day comes from Roman times, not Hallmark
In 1807 Sir Simon Taylor sent a printed and hand coloured Valentine card to Lady Sophia Fitzgerald. The card depicts Cupid and a female figure, possibly Venus, who holds his quiver of arrows, within a border of floral garlands, hearts and arrows. It is embellished with metallic sequins and carries the verse, "Cease my fond Passion to reprove, for Beauty's force can fetter Love". Handwritten at the top of the card are the words, "Roses Red and Violets Blue, Carnations Sweet and so are You." Inside the card is a further handwritten verse,
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A cure for all ills
Faith healing, herbal cures and even magic have always been part of rural life. And despite the current obsession with explaining the world in the narrowest of scientific terms, there is a resurgence of interest in the curious ways of our ancestors.
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No return to war
Is Gerry Adams about to make another momentous phone call? Just before the explosion at Canary Wharf in February 1996, which ended the IRA's first ceasefire, the Sinn Féin president rang the White House to warn of disturbing news.
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Sinn Féin members authorised robberies
^ Though they didn't specifically authorise the Northern Bank robbery, senior Sinn Féin members on the IRA Army Council sanctioned the principle of armed robberies, writes Suzanne Breen
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