Snapshots of the past, onlineThe National Photographic Archive has been putting its 630,000 prints online so that we can all see how we lived in the past – …Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
Know your Nobel winnersIt’s Nobel Prize week, and the scientific accolades have already been awarded. Who won what, why and how can we benefit?Thu Oct 07 2010 - 01:00
Running rings around true believers?Why do some have faith in holy trees or stumps in the shape of the Virgin Mary? Holy trees are linked to rebirth and healing, …Sat Jul 03 2010 - 01:00
Eye-opening life of our 'charming, irksome' criticCharles Acton, who wrote about music for ‘The Irish Times’ for three decades, was fuelled in his sometimes fierce assessments…Tue Jun 15 2010 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryYOU’D imagine – wouldn’t you? – that we Irish are pretty good at talking. Telly chat shows. Radio talk-insMon May 31 2010 - 01:00
If you go up to the attic todayART DETECTIVE: Niamh O'Sullivan has spent 15 years researching the life of Irish artist Aloysius O'Kelly, and her breakthroughs…Sat May 22 2010 - 01:00
Portrait of a serial thrillerDeclan Hughes has become a leading writer of Ireland’s crime-writing boom – although he argues that we should move away from …Wed May 19 2010 - 01:00
'Freshness and enthusiasm' wins it for Ultimate Job pairAFTER A weekend of tests, challenges and interviews, Denise and Mark Duffield-Thomas beat nine rival couples to win the Ultimate…Mon May 10 2010 - 01:00
The return of a musical masterWhen concert pianist Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand, he refused to retire from musicFri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryONE of the best things about having a Skype conversation with my daughter and baby grand-daughter is that I can hear what’s going…Tue Apr 06 2010 - 01:00
'I've never been fashionable'THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: PAUL BRADY: Paul Brady, one of Ireland’s most successful singer-songwriters, left his home town of Strabane…Sat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00
Death becomes herINTERVIEW: IT’S SILLY, I know, to imagine that a writer will somehow resemble their booksSat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00
A pretty, black storyHow do you find a new way to approach a story as familar as Romeo and Juliet? Opera Ireland’s take sets it in Victorian times…Fri Feb 26 2010 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryONE of the many ironies of our 21st-century lifestyle is that while we can afford to go pretty much anywhere on the planet, the…Mon Feb 22 2010 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's Diary‘OH, THAT’S a nice name,” people invariably say when I introduce myself. Or, “Wow – that’s an unusual oneTue Jan 26 2010 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's Diary‘OH, THAT’S a nice name,” people invariably say when I introduce myself. Or, “Wow – that’s an unusual oneTue Jan 26 2010 - 00:00
Opera gets the X FactorThe Veronica Dunne Singing Competition has a first prize of €10,000 – but that might be just the beginning for the winnerThu Jan 14 2010 - 00:00
Opera gets the X FactorThe Veronica Dunne Singing Competition has a first prize of €10,000 – but that might be just the beginning for the winnerThu Jan 14 2010 - 00:00
Israel in darknessFICTION: The Bad Book Affair By Ian Sansom Fourth Estate, 355pp. £7.99Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
Israel in darknessFICTION: The Bad Book Affair By Ian Sansom Fourth Estate, 355pp. £7.99Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
Music of the white silenceOn December 14th 1909, explorer Ernest Shackleton was in Dublin, lecturing at UCD about his ‘Nimrod’ Antarctic expedition. Next…Fri Dec 11 2009 - 00:00
New songs, new moonAfter more than two decades out of sight, Yusuf has recorded an album of pop songs and is in Dublin to bring his new show – and…Sat Nov 14 2009 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryMOST PEOPLE know Paul Herriott as the guy who brightens up the morning: he’s the presenter of In Tempo on Lyric FM every weekday…Mon Oct 05 2009 - 01:00
The terrible trouble with HopkinsNewman House on St Stephen’s Green, where the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins spent his final years as a Jesuit and descended into…Tue Sept 29 2009 - 01:00
Graphic displays of emotionTHE ARTS: Best known for ‘The Scream’, Edvard Munch produced almost 100,000 works – mostly graphic works and drawings – and …Sat Sept 19 2009 - 01:00
Going global all over againIn the space of just nine years, the Festival of World Cultures has gone from a niche event to one of the biggest on the festival…Wed Aug 26 2009 - 01:00
Defying definitions of logicThe Arts : Dylan Rynhart’s jazz ensemble breaks many moulds, with his innovative compositions and unusual juxtaposition of instruments…Sat Aug 15 2009 - 01:00
A good, old argument in Armagh over religion and politicsThis week, Armagh hosted the James Hewitt International Summer School, a hotbed of dissent, subversion and some new religious…Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00
Summer SleuthsCRIME SPECIAL: A collection of spinechillers located all over the globeSat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
Operatic ambitions in GlasthuleON A SUMMER’S evening, with the sea a blue smudge at the edge of a blue sky, Glasthule is undeniably a pleasant spotTue Jun 16 2009 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryTHE ability to hear plays such a crucial role in making music that it’s almost impossible to imagine how a professional musician…Tue May 12 2009 - 01:00
The story of one Dublin familyBefore the sale of her family home, Tanya Doyle decided to document the life lived there - warts and allSat May 09 2009 - 01:00
Tales from the operaSHORT STORIES: ARMINTA WALLACE reviews Midsummer Nights Edited by Jeanette Winterson Quercus, 329pp. £18.99Sat Apr 18 2009 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryON Easter Sunday morning, while we’re all trying to make that big decision about which of our chocolate eggs we should crack …Mon Apr 06 2009 - 01:00
Another town, another roleFrom ‘The West Wing’ to ‘Star Trek : Voyager’, Len Cariou has had a long and varied career in televisionMon Apr 06 2009 - 01:00
Controversial drama about Gaza bombing to get Irish stagingIT IGNITED a war of words when it was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London last month: now Caryl Churchill’s controversial…Fri Mar 06 2009 - 00:00
Writers on the crest of a crime waveTHERE WAS a time when Irish writers of the criminal persuasion were rarer than root canal work on a henSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Writers on the crest of a crime waveTHERE WAS a time when Irish writers of the criminal persuasion were rarer than root canal work on a henSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Packed house pays tribute to LeonardWITH SUNSHINE streaming into the Church of the Assumption in Dalkey and a sprightly fugue issuing from the organ, it was clear…Tue Feb 17 2009 - 00:00
Playwright Hugh Leonard dies at 82PLAYWRIGHT HUGH Leonard died yesterday in hospital at the age of 82; he had been seriously ill for the past monthFri Feb 13 2009 - 00:00
Twinkle, twinkle little starsYOUTH ORCHESTRAS: All 400 pupils at St Agnes’s school in Crumlin learn to play the violin, and the teachers see huge benefits…Sat Jan 31 2009 - 00:00
Norwegians crossing boundariesA broad-minded musical education, regular rural retreats, and a huge range of influences from Misha Alperin to Abba – these are…Tue Jan 20 2009 - 00:00
Brought to bookThere are some thought-provoking food books on the publishers' lists for springSat Jan 10 2009 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryYESTERDAY, in case you didn’t notice, was the day of the winter solsticeMon Dec 22 2008 - 00:00
A shaggy dog tale that tops its classDAFFY DOG movies are nothing new, especially around Christmas-time, but this week's new release Dean Spanley is - as the commentators…Sat Dec 13 2008 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryIN THESE days of corporate and cosmic doom and gloom, it lifts the heart to hear a good news story involving a real personTue Dec 09 2008 - 00:00
Haydn and the Big BangComposer Joseph Haydn's music is, in its own way, as descriptive of the moment of creation as the words of physicists could ever…Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
