Just Kids – Patti Smith – A Review
I’ve just finished reading Patti Smith’s memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids, and I miss the two of them. It’s a great read: all the energy of late 1960’s and early 1970’s...
View ArticleReview: Best Coast – Crazy For You
Best Coast is Bethany Cosentino’s celebration of all things Californian. This LA girl writes “songs about summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep.” Her debut album Crazy For You is out...
View ArticleReview: ‘Beautiful Kate’
The familiar plot motif regarding an adult child returning to the family home after a long absence found its commercial and critical success with “On Golden Pond,” a film which garnered three Academy...
View ArticleREVIEW –‘ROOM’ BY EMMA DONOGHUE
Emma Donoghue is the author of 10 novels, including the bestselling Slammerkin (2000). Her latest novel, Room, has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was born in Dublin in 1969, and has been...
View ArticleSofia Coppola’s Lady Problem
Back in 1999 praise for Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut The Virgin Suicides heralded a budding young talent, an indie force to be reckoned with, a woman with an intuitive understanding of the nuance...
View ArticleFirst Lady of Fleet Street
A few weeks ago I met a delegation of Swedish journalists on a visit to Dublin. Fresh from a visit to the Irish Times offices, they remarked on the fact that there seemed to be very few women in the...
View ArticleAirswimming
Back in 1997 actor Charlotte Jones, tired of sitting by a silent phone and frustrated by the lack of decent roles for women, took matters into her own hands and wrote her first play. The result was...
View ArticleJuno and the Paycock at the Abbey
Juno and the Paycock – poster image Watching Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, about the Boyle family in Dublin, was often a little like watching my own family in full flight. The hilarious...
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