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Lifestyle: June 2009

Changing seasons and eras at Trinity

Dr John Wallace | 28 June 2009 | Culture and society

Dr John Wallace looks at a new book on Trinity College Dublin and its progression through the acdemic year. Its history goes back much further, however, to 1166. The Trinity Year is a tribute to Ireland’s earliest university. Trinity College,... Read more

Festival offers food for thought

Niamh Mullen | 27 June 2009 | Food

Foodies braved the threat of bad weather to sample what Dublin’s best restaurants are offering at the Taste of Dublin festival, writes Niamh Mullen. Food heaven is the best way to describe the Taste of Dublin festival. Now in its... Read more

Tips on writing your medical autobiography

Dr Charles Dupont | 26 June 2009 | Literature

Dr Charles Dupont offers some helpful hints that you should bear in mind, if you are considering recording your memoirs for posterity. When a reporter once asked Noel Coward, ‘Is it true that you drink champagne for breakfast?’, he replied,... Read more

Life from the bottom of the barrel

Giovanni Morelli | 19 June 2009 | Wine

Giovanni Morelli writes that Diogenes, who spent his days living in a barrel, reminds him of a novel scheme where customers can buy barrels of their own wine ‘What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others’... Read more

Southern views on display from accidental artist

Niamh Mullen | 19 June 2009 | Art

Niamh Mullen speaks to Prof Colin Bradley, whose photographs are on exhibition in UCC, along with those of Dr Colman Casey and Dr Frank van Pelt Accidental artist Prof Colin Bradley’s first exhibition of photography runs at the Jennings Gallery... Read more

Don't waste your time and money at the checkout

Berna Cox | 19 June 2009 | Culture and society

Berna Cox says that she used to be a loyal shopper but she now sees the value in being able to go anywhere and buy anything without 'thrift guilt'. A couple of years ago, I was doing my supermarket shopping... Read more

Tragedy in a landscaped paradise

Dr John Wallace | 15 June 2009 | Art

Dr John Wallace looks at the major exhibition in Dublin of the work of the short-lived Wexford painter Thomas Roberts. Roberts is considered to be a painter of European significance — despite being virtually unknown outside of Ireland. Thomas Roberts,... Read more

Weather is usually the best gardener

Shirley Lanigan | 15 June 2009 | Gardening

Shirley Lanigan writes that now is the time to really get busy in the vegetable garden and you will soon see the fruits of your labours... literally! Ornamental gardens are generally at their best at this time of year. This... Read more

Sometimes it's hard to be either a man or a woman

Berna Cox | 08 June 2009 | Life itself

Berna Cox on the spate of books that asks women to return to the model of the perfect housewife that existed in the 1950s — which is just not on in the modern world, she says. Sometimes it’s hard to... Read more

It's still not too late to get planting

Shirley Lanigan | 02 June 2009 | Gardening

Shirley Lanigan says that now is the time to get planting beans, courgettes and pumpkins and offers some tips for getting the most out of these plants this year While many of the vegetables that we can grow outside are... Read more