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Shane MacGowan turned 65 on Christmas Day last year.

Shane MacGowan turned 65 on Christmas Day last year.

‘Lesbian Chic: A Contradiction in Terms’. That was the title of a tongue-in-cheek column that Janis Ian wrote for American LGBTQ+ magazine The Advocate in the early 2000s. It hit the newsstands when the singer-songwriter and her wife Patricia Snyder were on vacation in Provincetown.

Legendary Cork figure Sean French is remembered in a new book

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As befits a man whose backing band is an orchestra, André Rieu’s home is a castle.

Late 1974, 16-year-old John O’Neill and younger brother Vinny were playing no-frills songs on guitars in their front room at No 22, Beechwood Avenue on Derry’s Bogside. They soon formed what could be loosely termed a band, with friends Billy Doherty and Mickey Bradley from the Creggan estate, on drums and bass respectively.

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Zoë Rocha’s first memory is of being in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, at five years of age with her grandparents, Michael and Kathleen Doolan. On a walk by the river, the child leaned over to have a better look. Her beret tumbled in. Panic ensued. “I managed to fish it out eventually,” she remembers. “I don’t know why that stays with me, but I’ve never forgotten that day.” An amateur psychologist might, perhaps, speculate as to the significance of a lost hat to the child of two fas...

In 2019, sleep stopped being a balm for Julie Hough. She took anxiety to bed with her. She would sleep badly, and wake up at four in the morning. This became her routine for the last six years. She realised she had to figure out the things that were “so destructive they were keeping me awake at night,” she says.