The Dead brought to life: how James Joyce’s celebrated short story is being re-created as an immersive experience
Featuring Marty Rea, Maeve Fitzgerald and Marie Mullen, Louise Lowe’s re-creation is taking over Newman House, on St ...
Irish postpunk band Gurriers: ‘Everyone asks about the Dublin music scene. It’s not just Dublin any more, it’s everywhere’
The Irish postpunk band talk about playing Jools Holland, how Glastonbury lost out to Armagh and why Ireland’s music scene is ...
How to pack up your plants when moving on
It’s not, after all, like moving house where we can box up all our favourite belongings and pop them into the removal van to ...
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Which house plants are best for students?
My daughter has just started college and has moved into student accommodation on campus. I want to give her some indoor ...
A call to climate action
What needs to happen to save ourselves, our species and planet? Eight climate-conscious individuals offer their take ...
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A nocturnal creature stole 40 standard golf balls but no hollow plastic ones. Why?
Occasionally I practise golf in my back walled garden with old golf balls and plastic balls. I take them in at night-time. A ...
The Guide: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nas and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
Eighteen albums in 40 years is pretty productive, but when it comes to Nick Cave nobody expects quantity to outweigh quality.
Jonathan Coe: ‘The morning after the election felt like waking up in a safe room, having been in an abusive relationship for 14 years’
Following the release of his latest novel, The Proof of My Innocence, the author discusses his ‘stylistic homecoming’, the ...
Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Like everyone who lived through 1980s Ireland, I have mixed feelings about the experience. Yes, life was a little simpler ...
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Asian art: Arm yourself with knowledge of Japanese Kobudō before Adam’s sale
From the porcelains, jades, snuff bottles and paintings of China and the Himalayas, to the dynastic art of Vietnam, to the ...
Rita: A Memoir by Rita O’Hare; At the End of The Day by Jimmy Kelly; Until We Fall by Helena Sheehan
One day, Helena Sheehan was asked by a group of DCU students recording a vox-pop, “What is the most important lesson you have ...
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Once feared extinct in Ireland, the secretive nightjar calls again
Colin Travers’s day job is in McGovern’s pub in Gorey, Co Wexford. By night he searches remote areas across the county for a ...