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The evolution of Martin McGuinness – from high school dropout and IRA man to political leader seeking an end to violence and, finally, his emergence as Northern

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Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 06.29 EDT Lucifer Takes a Break transluce. He rolls a cigarette, crimping a white tip and dark tobacco carefully within the rustle of thin paper and remembers, as he snaps a match lit, a time before: just an instant. There was darkness there, but warmth. Yes, gorgeous warmth … a ‘shh’ pressed to his lips before he was handed down. The whisper of white noise … voices? He remembers, how long the fall was, how sheer, how short. He sips the coffee, thankful ...

This classification of Dylan as a political troubadour is borne out as recently as last year’s Murder Most Foul, his rumination on the Kennedy assassination and what he sees as its ripple effect on America up to the present day. This epic narrative may be driven by Dylan’s apocalyptic account of the JFK killing but the state of the nation almost 60 years later in the Trump era is its bubbling subtext. America, its history and sprawling geography, has been central to Dylan as poet and ...

25 Dublin restaurants offering outdoor dining in June as Ireland set for further Covid-19 lockdown ease Updated: 18 May 2021, 17:55 Invalid Date, IRELAND will continue to exit Covid-19 lockdown over the coming weeks - as outdoor dining resumes from June 7. 8 Outdoor dining resumed in the North at the end of AprilCredit: Getty Therell be a limit of six people per group as orders are dished up for the first time after months of takeaway and click and collect services only. Weve got a full list ...

  In 1939 Patrick Kavanagh came to Dublin to work full-time as a writer. A daunting task at any time, in 1940s Dublin this was almost impossible. Kavanagh observed that “poetry is a luxury trade… a man has no business adventuring into it unless he has buckets of money”. Despite many war-time shortages, jealousy and petty snobbery were in plentiful supply. The big raw-boned Monaghan man striding Dublin’s streets drew sneers from city slickers. (On observing a man driving a m...

Monday May 3rd, 2021 8:00am (Photo Notre Dame Athletics) Conference tournaments take center stage this week as eight leagues will hand out AQs and a trip to May Madness. The NCAA Tournament will also welcome eight at-large selections. The ACC will grab five of the eight at-large bids. That leaves three open spots for teams that fail to capture their league crown. It’s as easy as 8-8-5-3. Runners-up with resumes from the Patriot, Big East and Big Ten are likely to receive those three last bids...

21 min read What did The Irish Times first say about some works of literature that turned into classics? We trawled the archive to find out The Irish Times was founded in March 1859 and, more than 160 years later, is recognised for the quality and the quantity of the pages it devotes to Irish and international literature. Its deep engagement is reflected in the authors who have written columns for it over the years, among them Brian Friel, Kate O’Brien, John Montague, Maeve Binchy, Dere...

  Fable has it that Guy de Maupassant lunched every day in the Eiffel Tower restaurant as it was the only place in Paris he did not have to see it. Irish writers have a similar fixation with place. Amongst others, Edna O’Brien and James Joyce breathed easier in less prescriptive climes than Catholic Ireland, but instead of extinguishing their view of it they sharpened it. Eavan Boland’s work was less concerned with visibility and more with what fell outside of it. Given that the mar...

From a 19th-century table that inspired a lament to the work of a modern craftsman Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale features two tables by Cork men 150 years apart about 7 hours ago   Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale, which will be held in a live online auction on April 28th and April 29th lists two important tables. Both were designed by Cork men but created almost 150 years apart. They could not be more different – from a profusely carved 19th-century piece with a nationalis...