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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler: A fascinating indictment of incurious scholars
The journalist was slated for daring question whether the plays attributed to Shakespeare could have been written by a woman
Maureen Dowd: Don’t ditch literature as Frankensteins are on the march
The humanities are faltering, but, amid the rise of artificial intelligence, we have never needed than more than we do now
Clare Dunne: ‘Let’s stop being obsessed with getting everything by the time you are f**king 30’
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Lyric Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s doomed romance emphasises the contemporary at expense of the universal
Government considers €60m windfall tax on energy companies as bills soar
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World records for Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife and Hone’s Composition
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Former Ireland winger’s Shelbourne appointment warmly greeted all round
Donald Clarke: When is a new take on a movie not a remake?
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Leaving Cert diary: ‘I just wish I could scoop up the books and head outside’
I wanted Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney to come up, with Paul Durcan as back-up. All three came up!
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Patrick Freyne’s favourite art: Things that should be trash but are actually brilliant
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Planet Business: The times they are a-changin’
David Mitchell: ‘The internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation’
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Trinity College seeks female nominees to join collection of 40 male busts
Provost says it is time for sculptures in Long Room library to better represent diversity
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Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X
Fintan O'Toole: The Tory lunatic fringe of 2016 is now at the centre
Brexit is, in its own mad way, a version of that great British tradition, heroic failure
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International away trips are being co-opted but football has resisted before
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Delirium has often been dismissed as simply ‘the patient is just confused, it will pass’
Sale of the centuries in Wicklow big house
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Sherlock Gnomes: Fun film, pity about Johnny Depp
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Shift work: bad for your diet and sleep, and raises your cancer risk
Dr Muiris Houston: A body of evidence links shift work with diabetes, heart disease and cancer
Steven Spielberg: ‘I didn’t think anybody would go to see ET’
His new film ‘The Post’ neatly captures the Trumpian zeitgeist. But the director worries that ‘four-quadrant superhero franchises’ will drive these old-school films out of cinemas
Fintan O’Toole: In humiliating May, DUP killed the thing it loves
The DUP’s brinkmanship and manoeuvring have exposed Britain’s powerlessness
Denmark at full strength as they prepare to face Ireland
Danish newspaper has suggested that Eriksen is worth more than the full Ireland team
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Ireland’s image as rebel nation where each Catholic suspected of treason persisted for hundreds of years
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