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From prizewinning poetry to bestselling thrillers, D-day to the credit crunch, Wolf Hall to a picturebook about a dying duck, our writers and guests pick the best of 2009 Julian Barnes Laura Cumming's A Face to the World...
Joseph O'Connor salutes the achievement of a master storyteller This handsome, slip-cased, double-volume set of short stories contains more than 1,000 pages of William Trevor's prose, superseding his Collected Stories published...
Once, the Christian Brothers wielded extraordinary power – not only over the lives of the hundreds, if not thousands, of children they abused, but over Ireland itself. Today there are only 250 people left in the Irish order,...
The Leinster full-back believes Ireland are a step away from greatness, and they can edge closer with victory over South Africa today Payback time has finally arrived. Even five months ago Jamie Heaslip, sitting in the Lions'...
Letters: Management of 'new universities' Fatal flaws in the managements of 'new universities' It is extraordinary that HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) should ask for the resignation of the entire...
As told to Sebastian Gibson Emma Hall, 34, moved to Ireland three years ago after deciding the urban existence of London was no longer congenial to family life. She lives with her family in an old stone cottage in County...
Terry Eagleton on the corruption and bungling that have led to Ireland's economic woes The luck of the Irish has finally run out. Having roared away lustily for a decade or so, the Celtic Tiger has now rolled over on its back,...
As a sporting nation so recently united by profound injustice, Ireland need something spectacular to take their minds off Thierry Henry and that handball. Today's 'battle of the hemispheres' ought to do the trick. Croke Park...
HOMESICK X Factor twins Jedward don't plan on staying in London to enjoy their new stardom - because they miss Ireland. John and Edward Grimes, 18 - who got booted out of the talent contest last week - are currently in a swanky...
Published Date: 28 November 2009 A SENIOR academic has argued that Scotland lacks an understanding of its own history and culture – and believes that centres of Scottish studies should be created across the world to address...
