All wine consumers are faced with this question sooner or later. What makes a good vintage? Are good vintages found in all wine-growing areas in the same year? How can one remember the good years? I suppose the last question is the most important for the average wine drinker and it’s certainly the most difficult [...]
This time of the year– I’ve never known what to call it– is special. I suppose it’s technically spring but every day is promising summer with mega-long evenings and lazy times ahead. I love it. Even as a small child when it shouldn’t matter to you what time of the year it is, I loved [...]
Peter O’Toole’s failure to bag a ‘little god’ at the 79th Oscar ceremony should not take from his outstanding performance in the recent comedy drama, Venus. This film, a meditation on mortality written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Roger Michel, is carried off effortlessly by O’Toole who adds a poignant note to the story. [...]
Property as an investment continues to attract much interest from Irish people both at home and, increasingly, in new markets and recovering markets. Despite the fact that the European Central Bank has steadily increased interest rates over the course of the past year, it is widely predicted that we are now almost at the top [...]
Paraskavedekatriaphobia. Now there’s a word. It’s not in my trusty little electronic Oxford but if you Google it, you get 21,000 hits. Any ideas? Here’s a clue– it’s related to triskaidekaphobia. Here’s another clue– look at the date of this issue. Triskaidekaphobia is extreme superstition regarding the number 13 and paraskavedekatriaphobia is specifically the fear [...]
In 1742, George Frederic Handel, while living in London, received an invitation to come to Dublin to help a charity. He proposed to attend a number of concerts of his music and offered a new work, recently composed, for premiére. Neale’s Musick-Hall in Fishamble Street was chosen as the venue and there, on 13 April [...]
This book on the relationship between art and medicine explores the evolution of treatments, physical and psychological, from ancient to modern times, and records how artists illustrated these advances. Surgical And Medical Treatment in Art is written by Prof Alan Emery, who is emeritus professor of human genetics at Edinburgh University, and has had a [...]
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