There is a difference between the history and the stories we tell ourselves. Historian Mike Cronin talks to Dion Fanning about how altering the stories will take generations, and being an English academic writing on Irish history.
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan getting the screen treatment in recent months are just the latest incarnations of an increasingly popular genre that has featured such diverse geniuses as Mozart and Johnny Cash.
Once a capital city where Irish people struggled to punctuate meaning, impact and influence, London now boasts an Irish cultural calling card. But what’s behind the change?
Listening to Michael Parkinson that evening, journalism, radio, and television in the England of the 1970s appeared to reflect an emerging dynamism, free-spiritedness, or even bolshiness of younger generations in northern England.
Maybe I want to read books written by three-legged weirdos who have never heard of Elon Musk and aren’t on Twitter. God forbid. Maybe I don’t want to buy badly designed handbags with PHARRELL written across them for $800; I rather like my Foreign Affairs bag that I got with my subscription for free.
Once upon a time, salary and status were what attracted young people to a company. Now, a new matrix of criteria has formed, pushing the boundaries of how companies can recruit.
IMMA Director Annie Fletcher reflects on a turbulent year and why challenging the historical idea of a museum is key to its survival.
Ireland's tastes have gotten fancier: in the five years after 2013, the number of speciality coffee shops grew 56 per cent. What is it about expensive coffee shops? And will they survive the crisis?
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