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1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Tom Lordan

   Saving for a Helicopter at Dublin Fringe: Powerful one-woman account of hereditary illness (opens the original)

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   Illness, both chronic and mortal, has emerged as a recurring theme at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival, appearing in several productions. It is hardly surprising. We live in the aftermath of a global pandemic, which haunts us all the more as we try to suppress its memory. British philosopher Havi Carel’s 2016 book, the Phenomenology of Illness, distinguishes between the objective body, which medical science diagnoses and treats, and the lived body, through which we inhabit the world. For C

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2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Tom Lordan

   Chronically Hopeful at Dublin Fringe: Exploration of long-term illness that feels reductive (opens the original)

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   Chronically Hopeful is an interdisciplinary production from Musici Ireland exploring the experience of long-term health conditions and disability. Founded in 2012 as a classical chamber music collective, Musici Ireland has since expanded into hybrid theatre, including 2023’s A Mother’s Voice, which tackled Ireland’s mother and baby homes. An equal combination of theatre and musical performance, Chronically Hopeful’s ensemble comprises violinists Jane Hackett and Siobhán Doyle, violist B

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3. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Tom Lordan

   Proust by Samuel Beckett: A fascinating glimpse of a Nobel laureate ‘in the making’ (opens the original)

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   Eimear McBride recounts in her preface that, at the time he was commissioned to write a monograph on Marcel Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, the future Nobel laureate had not read a single page of the multi-volume work. Undaunted, “Beckett readily accepted and spent the stormy summer of 1930 immersing himself in Proust’s capacious masterpiece”. Only 24, Samuel Beckett would soon return to Dublin from Paris, having spent two years teaching at the École Normale Supérieure. His li

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