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Schools of rock: Denis McClean on the fifth member of U2 â the fans (opens the original)
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If I had been expelled from St Paulâs College, Raheny, I might have gone to the newly opened Mount Temple Comprehensive School on the Malahide Road, and it would have been a shorter walk from our house on Castle Avenue in Clontarf. No nonsense there about being âsentâ to the dean, a Vincentian priest, with a docket stating your misdemeanour then taking as many as six stinging hits with a leather strap and waiting for the deanâs signature before returning the docket to the teacher concern
At the âArt Olympicsâ in Venice, the horrors of Gaza have not been forgotten (opens the original)
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On my way to the Venice Biennale, I was standing on the port side of the crowded vaporetto as we passed under the Rialto Bridge. I recognised ahead of me the imposing facade of the Mayor of Veniceâs office on the Caâ Farsetti. It was a reminder that on my last trip to Venice in April 2014, I had interviewed the then mayor, Giorgio Orsoni, in his lovely office overlooking the Grand Canal some weeks before he was placed under house arrest. The furore over the cost of the national childrenâs
A leisurely visit to the Bayeux tapestry when it was still in Normandy (opens the original)
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Normandy has declared 2027 the Year of the Normans, and it has roped in Ireland, the UK and other territories to ponder the question: what did the Normans ever do for us? Expect lots of events in Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Dublin, in particular. The hook is William the Conquerorâs millennium birthday celebrations â and the stand-out happening must surely be the decision of the French to loan the 900-year-old Bayeux tapestry to the British Museum until July next year. The much-prized me
1943 apology letter a stunning glimpse into the chaos faced by Irish railway workers (opens the original)
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How many of us would like to see Dublinâs busy Heuston Station revert to those gentler times in the 1940s when it was still known as Kingsbridge and customer service consisted of a staffed cloakroom equipped with a telephone? A letter drafted in response to a complaint, dated August 25, 1943, has come into my possession from the CIÃ archives which gives a fascinating insight into the pressured life of a Cork man working in the Kingsbridge cloakroom that Wednesday morning. It was composed just
All that jazz: Denis McClean on a unique project in Sligo that hits all the right notes (opens the original)
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Forty years ago, Those Nervous Animals were strong contenders to be Irish rockâs next big thing, sharing the stage with U2, The Boomtown Rats and The Pogues at the Self-Aid concert in depression-era 1980s Ireland. It was a blessing in disguise for countless young musicians that stardom passed the band by and that their bassist Eddie Lee went on to find his true calling in life â which was to turn his native Sligo into a hotbed of emerging jazz talent. Under Leeâs guidance, the Sligo Jazz P
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