This recent, short book focuses on one of the least-known periods of Samuel Beckett’s life. The Irish writer had just returned from Paris to teach in Dublin, but had not yet written his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Rachael Burrows, then aged nineteen, was a student in Beckett’s class when he lectured [...]
Berna Cox ends up with helmet hair and stripey legs after a three-day ‘pampering’ session and decides that with all the stress, time and money involved, it’s just not worth the hassle I don’t think I’m a very good girl. What I mean is, I don’t think I’m too good at being a girl. I [...]
Dr John Wallace looks at the early years of women’s participation in third-level education in Trinity College Dublin, when women were perceived as being ‘a danger to the men’ A book called A Danger to the Men?, edited by Susan Parkes, looks at the struggles and the achievements of women in third-level education in Ireland. [...]
Conor White outlines the benefits of establishing self directed retirement portfolios, which allow professionals to have an effective tax management plan in place for minimising tax on earned income. A self-directed retirement portfolio allows medical and other professionals to accumulate an investment portfolio for retirement in a very tax-effective way, and with wide investment flexibility. [...]
Berna Cox writes that although society finds it acceptable when a widower remarries, it’s a different story when a woman marries again — but she doesn’t intend on going anywhere for quite a while. Recently, I met a woman from my home town and all but took her hostage for a few hours to catch [...]
Dr Stephen McWilliams plots the links between literary figures and detective novels — some with a strong medical influence — and investigates the possibility of writing his own sleuthing novel. If the shelves of my local bookshop are to be believed, most 19th-century literary figures were super-sleuths in their time. Indeed, any prominent child of [...]
Eighty years later, the number of cafés multiplied and they were often used by the leaders of the Revolution, such as Danton and Robespierre. Indeed, it was the chefs of those aristocrats who lost their heads who set up many of the great restaurants and bistros of Paris. The 1800s marked the age of the [...]
Terence Cosgrave recommends a new book on the history and archaeology behind Newgrange, Ireland’s finest historical site. It’s rare that an academic book retains its scholarship, while also being a page-turning read. Most academic books that have a high degree of scholarship tend to be written by and for academics, and those with a deep [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that we may need to reconsider our views on ‘bottling’ wine in cardboard containers and also looks at reasons why Prosecco has grown in popularity in recent years. I suppose we are all creatures of habit, to a greater or lesser degree. Wine bottles have been around for so long that we [...]
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