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Paul Muldoon
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Maurice Hayes: Brian Lenihan knows where the line is and which side he is on -- and that he must hold firm
Monday November 02 2009
IN an early poem, Paul Muldoon describes a man looking at a line across a country lane, drawn by a summer shower, as if a wall of glass had tumbled over. He stood there for some time wondering which side, if any, he should be on.
Unsavoury sex smear campaign takes poetic licence just too far
Sunday May 31 2009
I belong to The Academy, a Soho club founded by the late lamented Auberon Waugh, which bans poets from membership. The kindly, genial Bron was implacable: poets were egotistical nuisances who spread trouble and disharmony wherever they went. It would have been no use bleating to him about the delightfulness of Brendan Kennelly: in Bron's world, exceptions proved the rule.
Boldly going where no fiddler has gone before
Saturday May 23 2009
I was sitting on the hard pews of the Unitarian Church on Dublin's Stephen's Green when I first heard Caoimhin O Raghallaigh play live. Playing in near darkness -- he was bathed only in the faintest blue light -- the fiddler wrung the most extraordinarily haunting sounds from his five-string viola.
Emotional Liam finally gets his degree
Friday May 08 2009
He took the circuitous route, via Hollywood, but Liam Neeson got there in the end.
RTE goes a bit ott in praise of Heaney
Saturday April 18 2009
Much as some of us cherish the poetry of Seamus Heaney, RTE's celebration of his 70th birthday seemed just a teensy bit over the top.
CrashWednesday, RTE1, 9.30pm The Podge & Rodge Show Monday, RTE2, 10.50pm Doctor Who Tonight, BBC1, 6.45pm Seamus Heaney: Out of the Marvellous Tuesday, RTE1, 10.10pm Munster v Ospreys Sunday, Sky Sports 1, 12.45pm
Saturday April 11 2009
Sometimes, a few years after a film has wowed the critics and won everything come Oscar time, you begin to ask yourself if it was really as good as everyone seemed to think at the time. At the 2004 Academy Awards, Paul Haggis's Crash won Best Picture, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay, while Matt Dillon was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Here lies NOF ... beloved of
Sunday July 06 2008
ONE day in April, John Low-Beer dropped off his partner, the late author Nuala O'Faolain, with her old friend, the broadcaster Marian Finucane in Galway.
