Names lose meaning as global swamps the localTHE folklorist Seamus O Cathain once told me a story that has stayed with me ever sinceFri Feb 09 1996 - 00:00
A new force from Galway againAS WELL as being one of the most auspicious debuts by an Irish playwright in the past 25 years, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty …Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00
Myths that conceal the truth about roots of crime"WE HAVE within the last few years to deal with an entirely new class of criminal, composed of half educated youths who would…Fri Feb 02 1996 - 00:00
A miracle on stage"ART," said Oscar Wilde, "never expresses anything but itselfTue Jan 30 1996 - 00:00
Surrender of dead more vital than armsFIVE years ago, an inquest was held in Cashel, Co Tipperary, on the body of a man called Thomas Kirby, discovered at Rossmore…Fri Jan 26 1996 - 00:00
Turning technology into artTO use the work of William Butler, Yeats as the basis for an experiment in multi media art, as the Throwin' Shapes company does…Tue Jan 23 1996 - 00:00
A whiff of arrogance rises from contact negotiationSOMETIMES it is dangerous for people in power to be proved rightFri Jan 19 1996 - 00:00
Less really can be moreIN John B. Keane's novel Duran go, there is a scene in which a group of farmers in Kerry is anticipating the outbreak of the …Tue Jan 16 1996 - 00:00
A lifetime trying to get back to a view of the streetAS A child, Pat Tierney, who hanged himself in the grounds of local church a week ago, spent much time as he could sitting on…Fri Jan 12 1996 - 00:00
The last of innocenceTHOUGH few of those attending The King and I at the Olympia will bother with such questions, it is nevertheless instructive to…Tue Jan 09 1996 - 00:00
Patients must have the right to see their own filesON WEDNESDAY, a funeral cortege stopped outside the Department of Health headquarters in DublinFri Jan 05 1996 - 00:00