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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Journalists invited to ‘walk round’ the giant Ron Yeats – Liverpool’s colossus

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Bill Shankly famously invited journalists to take a …

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7 months ago

Dublin: home of the world’s greatest storytellers

Hindustan Times

James Joyce may have spent most of his adult life abroad, but he was a true-blue Dubliner at heart. James Joyce photographed in 1918 in Zurich Apart from Joyce, Ireland’s capital has produced four Nobel laureates of literature: renowned poets William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney, dramatist George Bernard Shaw and novelist Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett on an Irish postage …

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9 months ago

Daily Quiz | On Chinua Achebe

The Hindu

Daily Quiz | On Chinua Achebe Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /5 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Speaking about the writer, a former President once said, “There was a writer named Chinua Achebe…in whose company the prison walls fell down.” Identify the leader. YES NO Answer : Nelson Mandela SHOW ANSWER …

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9 months, 1 week ago

An Irish writing professor's seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin

BBC

An Irish writing professor's seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin John Piekos/Getty Images Dublin has been home to and produced a disproportionate number of the English-speaking world's most important writers, poets and playwrights Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin's Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, takes you on a tour of literary Dublin, from James Joyce's Martello Tower to a pint at …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Eco-friendly lab-grown diamond, vintage camera, antique book galley among gifts exchanged between Biden and Modi

The Hindu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the U.S. for a three-day state visit, has gifted an eco-friendly lab-grown 7.5 carat diamond, placed in Kashmir's exquisite Papier mâché box, to the U.S. First Lady Jill Biden. PM@NarendraModi ji gifts this beautiful eco-friendly lab-grown diamond, placed in Kashmir's exquisite Papier mâché box to the U.S First Lady @FLOTUS," commerce and industry …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Biden and Irish poets: ‘Hope and history,’ a lifelong love

Associated Press

NEW YORK — When President Joe Biden visits Ireland this week, he will mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, confer with top officials on current issues and honor his Irish ancestors. “Yeats and Heaney encompass so much of the universal catalog of emotions poetry can express and they are the major wells he goes to when he …

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2 years, 4 months ago

A road trip through Yeats country

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The imagery in many of …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Noble Yeats wins 2022 Grand National to give amateur Sam Waley-Cohen 'fairytale' final ride

The Telegraph

And though the horse, a first runner in the race for Mullins, could come back to Aintree many times, he will not do so with Waley-Cohen on board. Delta Work was going pretty well though he was about empty out and Any Second Now, the 15-2 favourite, was staying on ominously strongly on the outside of a gang of nine …

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2 years, 11 months ago

‘The Lost Daughter’ movie review: Olivia Colman revels in haunting tale of motherhood

The Hindu

Elena Ferrante’s slim, 2008 novel is vividly brought to life by Maggie Gyllenhaal in her directorial debut. While initially enjoying her freedom and the gentle attentions of the caretaker Lyle, Leda soon gets increasingly embroiled in a boisterous Neapolitan family, particularly a young mother Nina and her three-year-old daughter Elena. The Lost Daughter Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal Cast: Olivia Colman, Dakota …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Column: Sinéad O’Connor isn’t looking for sympathy with her new memoir, just a little truth

LA Times

On the Shelf Rememberings By Sinéad O’Connor Houghton Mifflin: 304 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Sinéad O’Connor has written a memoir called “Rememberings,” and if you think you know what to expect, you’d best brush up on your Yeats. Now that we …

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3 years, 10 months ago

The detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa

BBC

The detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa Alamy The 1503 painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the world's most famous piece of art. If legend is to be believed, the "treacherous attraction" of Mona Lisa's irresolvable smirk consumed too the soul of an aspiring French artist by the name of Luc Maspero. By situating Mona Lisa inside a "little well", …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Loss of smell or anosmia: This Covid-19 symptom drives survivors to get creative in the kitchen

CNN

CNN — Emergency physician Dr. Alex Yeats had just whipped up what seemed like an appetizing dinner option when his wife let him know she wasn’t having anything to do with it. Anosmia — a condition known as “smell blindness,” or loss of smell — is a common symptom of Covid-19, and can severely impact people’s ability to taste, since …

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4 years, 4 months ago

‘Members of the same club’: Teen offers testimonial for Biden, who helped with his stutter

LA Times

In an evening of testimonials to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, none stood out Thursday quite like 13-year-old Brayden Harrington’s. When he met Biden in New Hampshire during the primaries, Harrington told the party’s national convention, “He told me that we were members of the same club. We stutter.” After a long pause before saying the word stutter, Harrington went …

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Journalists invited to ‘walk round’ the giant Ron Yeats – Liverpool’s colossus

Dublin: home of the world’s greatest storytellers

Daily Quiz | On Chinua Achebe

An Irish writing professor's seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin

Eco-friendly lab-grown diamond, vintage camera, antique book galley among gifts exchanged between Biden and Modi

Biden and Irish poets: ‘Hope and history,’ a lifelong love

A road trip through Yeats country

Noble Yeats wins 2022 Grand National to give amateur Sam Waley-Cohen 'fairytale' final ride

‘The Lost Daughter’ movie review: Olivia Colman revels in haunting tale of motherhood

Column: Sinéad O’Connor isn’t looking for sympathy with her new memoir, just a little truth

The detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa

Loss of smell or anosmia: This Covid-19 symptom drives survivors to get creative in the kitchen

‘Members of the same club’: Teen offers testimonial for Biden, who helped with his stutter