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Maeve’s Times

On Maeve Binchy’s first outing as a journalist with The Irish Times she reported on the wedding of Prince Charles’ sister Anne to Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey. Rather than the po-faced royal family treatment, Maeve went all out […]

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Films

Films

Showing in Irish cinemas from October 4th, Alex Fegan’s documentary takes a wry look at that great national institution – The Irish Pub. Many film-makers tackling this subject would likely focus on the history of such establishments and their place […]

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The Poetry Place

Last Days In those last days you were drifting away from us more quickly than any of us realised, you made child-like by illness and morphine as I got you a cigarette after your jelly and ice-cream. I sat with […]

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But isn’t science boring?

But isn't science boring?

If you think science is boring you must have never visited the Science Gallery on Pearse Street. It is a public science center, ‘where art and science collide’. Exhibitions are represented by diverse fields of study from ìgeneral nerdinessî to […]

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Artist Profile – Pete Hogan

Artist Profile - Pete Hogan

After 44 days at sea Pete arrived, on his boat the ‘Molly B’, at the Aran Islands. From there he rang his Dad (from a telephone box) who rushed over from Dublin to see him and buy him a decent […]

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