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A history of Ireland in 100 objects

KESHCARRIGAN BOWL, EARLY FIRST CENTURY: There was no Celtic invasion of Ireland

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00

Loughnashade trumpet c.100 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: ONE OF the most famous pieces of ancient sculpture is The Dying Gaul , a Roman copy of …

Sat Jun 11 2011 - 01:00

Rich enough to sustain a decent society

The place is awash with cash and there is no excuse for targeting the vulnerable and blaming austerity

Tue Jun 07 2011 - 01:00

Why did 'Titanic' loom so large in our imaginations?

CULTURE SHOCK: IN THE LATE 1930s, Alfred Hitchcock considered making a film based on the sinking of Titanic but concluded that…

Sat Jun 04 2011 - 01:00

Amulet, Old Croghan Man, 362-175 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: The dazzling regalia that survives from ancient Ireland suggests that kings had enormous…

Sat Jun 04 2011 - 01:00

Gravy train still stops at all the right stations

Ivor Callely will get €63,000 a year for the rest of his life yet Richard Bruton targets the poorest workers

Tue May 31 2011 - 01:00

Broighter boat, circa 100 BC

A HISTORY OF IRELAND IN 100 OBJECTS: This delightful gold boat, just under 20cm long but rich in detail, is a rare thing in …

Sat May 28 2011 - 01:00

What's yours is Dylan's, and what's Dylan's is his own

CULTURE SHOCK: IT WAS, of course, Bob Dylan himself who put into mocking words the ultimate cultural nightmare of the 20th century…

Sat May 28 2011 - 01:00

Obama not just another excuse for blarney

Claiming Obama as our own could be an exercise in self- aggrandisement – or it could help construct a new Irish identity

Tue May 24 2011 - 01:00

Iron spearhead, 800-675 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: The past is unpredictable.

Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00

Shaw was an anarchist: where is all the chaos?

CULTURE SHOCK: SO FAR AS I know, Annabelle Comyn’s delightful production of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is the first time it has…

Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00

Castlederg bronze cauldron, 700-600 BC

A HISTORY OF IRELAND IN 100 OBJECTS: Christianity was not the first Mediterranean religion to find its way to Ireland.

Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00

Goodman apology would be apt memorial

RTÉ’s tributes to Joe Murray fail to mention how they pilloried him over beef investigation

Tue May 10 2011 - 01:00

A history of Ireland in 100 objects

Gleninsheen gold gorget, circa 800-700 BC

Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a feck

CULTURE SHOCK: WHAT IS an Irish novel? The question hovers over literary history – Is Elizabeth Bowen Irish? What about Iris…

Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00

Mooghaun hoard, circa 800 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: A little under 3,000 years ago someone in Ireland was very, very rich

Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00

Preservation of self is true measure of elite's genius

Ruling class has used its incompetence to flee the consequences of its incompetence – an awe-inspiring feat

Tue Apr 26 2011 - 01:00

Rising to the challenge

With such a long tradition of complex and contradictory responses to the 1916 Easter Rising, there’s no reason to expect the …

Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00

A history of Ireland in 100 objects

Tara torcs, c 1200 BC: IN 1810, a boy digging close to the ringed fort known as the Rath of the Synods on the Hill of Tara in…

Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00

The eyes have it: what Frida Kahlo's gaze says about us

CULTURE SHOCK : THE EYES have it

Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00

Bronze Age funerary pots, 1900-1300 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: Sometime in the early Bronze Age, Irish people began to bury their dead in single graves…

Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00

Indebted generation must find their voice

The negative-equity generation should be out on the streets – but it’s hard to embrace collective power when you’ve grown up …

Tue Apr 12 2011 - 01:00

Bronze Age dugout canoe, circa 2200 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: It is so long – 15m in all – that it cannot be photographed as a whole inside the National…

Sat Apr 09 2011 - 01:00

This Irish solution to a southern problem is a smart choice

CULTURE SHOCK: IN THE FIRST act of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, currently playing at the Gate in Dublin, Maggie…

Sat Apr 09 2011 - 01:00

How were Ice Age cave painters able to create great art?

THE ROCK paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France that are the subject of Werner Herzog’s marvellous film Cave of Forgotten…

Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00

A history of Ireland in 100 objects

Coggalbeg gold hoard, 2300-2000 BC

Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00

To impunity and beyond: brazenness of tribunal's shamed is well founded

The bullish behaviour of Michael Lowry, Denis O’Brien and Ben Dunne this week was that of men who know they have nothing to fear…

Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00

Enough bad history and politics. Perhaps the past is best on TV

CULTURE SHOCK: THE YEARS between 1901 and 1911 constitute the longest decade in Irish history

Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00

Pair of gold discs, 2200-2000 BC

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: The working of metals may have come late to Ireland, but the island then became one of …

Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00

A history of Ireland in 100 objects

Basket earrings, Amesbury, England, circa 2300 BC

Sat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00

If Ireland's looking for a hero, try St Phil, who made awkwardness cool

CULTURE SHOCK: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST from a distant culture might conclude that when they are not worshipping St Patrick the Irish…

Sat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00

Corporate tax a distraction from core issue

The tax transnational firms are paying in Ireland is not the problem, it is the tax they are not paying

Tue Mar 15 2011 - 00:00

Theatre's regrettable new rule: keep it simple, stupid

CULTURE SHOCK : HERE IS A SWEEPING generalisation

Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00

Neolithic handbag, 3800-2500 BC

It looks at first like a piece of a rough, greenish mat from a 1970s student flat. In fact it is a 5,000-year-old handbag.

Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00

Everything & nothing has changed

Something remarkable has taken place – an election that has changed Irish politics forever

Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00

A history of Ireland in 100 objects

Flint macehead, 3300-2800 BC

Sat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00

Lost in translation: a Wilde notion from Myles na gCopaleen

CULTURE SHOCK: FLANN O’BRIEN was an enemy of the practice of dramatising novels

Sat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00

Radical change is what we really need

Revolutionary transformation is the only hope for future of the nation – and Eamon Gilmore’s Labour party

Tue Mar 01 2011 - 00:00

A History of Ireland in 100 Objects: Neolithic bowl, c 3500 BC

The bowl is simple enough, very dark with burnished surfaces and relatively crude lattice-pattern decorations

Sat Feb 26 2011 - 00:00

The Celtic leopard: welcome to the age of 'tranformismo'

CULTURE SHOCK DURING THAT brief moment last year when the British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was still popular, he appeared…

Sat Feb 26 2011 - 00:00

The darker side of 'Irelantis' was lost on us a decade ago

CULTURE SHOCK: I F YOU leave Ireland, at least through Dublin airport, one of the last things you’ll see are the ads for a mobile…

Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00

A History of Ireland in 100 Objects: Ceremonial Axe, 3600 BC

Even now, its sheen and colour are magnetically alluring, the jade green surface, mottled with darker veins and glimmers of light…

Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00

One of the crassest pieces of theatre I have ever seen

CULTURE SHOCK: YASMINA REZA’S God of Carnage is one of the biggest hit international plays of the past five years

Sat Feb 12 2011 - 00:00

Do humans like to fantasise? Is the pope a Catholic?

CULTURE SHOCK: EMMA IS, like, so disconnected from the real world

Sat Feb 05 2011 - 00:00

We need to talk about money, Micheál

To be taken seriously, Fianna Fáil’s new leader must address some problematic aspects of his party’s culture

Tue Feb 01 2011 - 00:00

The decision that I made on contesting this general election

OPINION: This columnist will not be seen on the hustings and to ask why not is entirely legitimate

Sat Jan 29 2011 - 00:00

Real-life dramas? We don't do those. But John B Keane did

CULTURE SHOCK: IMAGINE THE FOLLOWING scenario. In 2008 a man is found strangled in a ditch

Sat Jan 22 2011 - 00:00

I would be a very different person without my stammer

Other people’s embarrassment is the worst part of having a stammer – but it forces you to expand your vocabulary and gives you…

Sat Jan 15 2011 - 00:00

Time to take the tough decisions on oil and gas

WE’VE just been through a year when the unthinkable became normal

Tue Jan 04 2011 - 00:00

Why bank directors owe us a confession

Without some public reckoning with recent business behaviour, we’re stuck with a corrosive fatalism

Tue Dec 28 2010 - 00:00
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