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She worked within a scene whose promoters, fans, critics and musicians tend to misunderstand the role of the jazz composer
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John McLaughlin: ‘I tell my hands how beautiful they are. Now I have no pain at all’
The great guitarist on arthritis, choosing art over money and working with Miles Davis
The end of open plan: How the pandemic changed home design
‘People want individual spaces – rooms that can be divided with sliding doors or screens’
Period styling gets a modern twist on Royal Dun Laoghaire square for €1.595m
This Victorian mid-terrace has been gradually upgraded by two owners and has some lovely distinctive details
Ulster club round-up: Crossmaglen rack up 45th Armagh title
Armagh kingpins turn it around in second half against Ballymacnab
The Bloody Sunday victims: Their stories and what the 2010 Saville report said about them
Bloody Sunday – January 30th, 1972
Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off
40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town
Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?
St Brendan’s school in Birr has won a Getty Foundation preservation-study grant
Angling Notes: Irish Specimen Fish Committee sounds funding warning
Annual report, first launched in 1955, again makes for splendid reading
Buncrana pier rescuer tells how father shouted ‘save our baby’
Five drowned after car slid on ‘treacherous’ algae on slipway into Lough Swilly
Slaughtneil win fourth Derry title in succession
Champions far too strong for Ballinascreen at Celtic Park
How much fluid should you drink while running?
14 people have died from over-drinking during exercise, none from dehydration
Una Mullally: Urban design is an afterthought in Dublin
Luas Cross City’s messiness proves our planners do not care about visual pollution
Best jazz gigs to see this week
Fireplace Dragon; Chick Corea & Béla Fleck; Tommy Halferty’s Lifetime and Joey Alexander
Donnybrook seminary at €10m may be top residential scheme
Site can be used to build upmarket residential development or hotel
The architects’ pick of Open Houses
Five architects participating in this year’s Open House series select the buildings that they believe have had the biggest public impact
A celebration of Ireland’s Modernist heritage
A new book explores how the State forged its own postcolonial architectural identity
Hello again baby: Bay City Rollers announce comeback
‘We were bigger than One Direction, they haven’t had a mania’
Whose house? Koolhaas puts on a show at Venice Architecture Biennale
From a full-scale bungalow to Arctic landscapes, this year’s fantastically engaging exhibition, under the direction of the Dutch starchitect, shows how countries have been reinvented since 1914
Education by design
Architects bring design skills to Transition Year students learning about home, school and community
Hillside hermitages win Irish architecture’s highest accolade
The RIAI has awarded its Gold Medal for the exquisite retreat cabins designed by Bates Maher – a now disbanded practice – for the Rosminian order at Glencomeragh House, in Co Tipperary
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