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Lifestyle: Literature
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James Joyce and the art of everyday living
Dr John Wallace | 09 September 2009
With the recent publication of Prof Declan Kiberd’s commentary on Ulysses, Dr John Wallace reflects on the development of the book that revolutionised the modern novel... Read more
Tips on writing your medical autobiography
Dr Charles Dupont | 26 June 2009
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
Reclaiming the American Dream
Kealan Flynn | 08 April 2009
Kealan Flynn writes that a new book outlines Barack Obama's vision for America and his plans to fix a broken country. Every US presidency brings a mixture of hope and trepidation — and the traditional avalanche of books about the... Read more
Beckett – the reluctant lecturer
Dr John Wallace | 31 October 2008
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... Read more
Trinity: life in splendid isolation
Dr John Wallace | 24 June 2008
Dr John Wallace looks at a new book on the distinguished and flamboyant don, Prof R.B. McDowell, and his charmed existence within the halls and squares of Trinity College Dublin. Born in 1913, Robert Brendan McDowell entered Trinity College Dublin... Read more
Memories of a charismatic minister, Donogh O’Malley
Dr John Wallace | 29 May 2008
Dr John Wallace looks at the spectacular but short-lived political career of Donogh O’Malley —the Minister who introduced free secondary education to Ireland in the 1960s. Donogh O’Malley died suddenly, aged 47, on 10 March 1968. Historian Roy Foster regards... Read more
Tragic hero of the Russian Revolution
Dr John Wallace | 21 April 2008
Dr John Wallace looks at the background to the epic film Doctor Zhivago, which was adapted from the eponymous book about the surgeon and poet, written by banned Russian writer Boris Pasternak. Told in flashback by Alec Guinness, the intimate... Read more
Grace Kelly: an enduring style icon
Dr John Wallace | 25 January 2008
The past year has seen a number of events celebrating the life of Grace Kelly, who died in 1982. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of her death, Prince Albert, Grace Kelly's son, opened the palace archives in Monaco to provide... Read more
The devil-may-care doctor and writer
Dr Patrick Rowan | 19 October 2007
Like many before him and after him, Charles Lever qualified as a medical doctor in early life but later forsook medicine for writing. His lively devil-may-care stories enthralled the public and in his day his novels were as popular as... Read more
The story of your life
05 October 2007
Introduced by Maeve Binchy, LifeStory is a unique book which has been created to enable Irish families, couples and individuals to begin the process of compiling and writing their own life histories. It was launched by television and radio presenters... Read more
A doctor, writer and poet
Dr Micheál Fanning | 29 June 2007
Literature deepens our understanding of birth, life and death, but they are also components of our existence touched upon every day in the engagement of medicine. Medicine and literature weave inextricably together in the work of body, mind and soul.... Read more
A good book can be an invaluable aid to help parents and children
Dr Nuala O’Farrell | 08 June 2007
Before I ever had a child, patients used to ask my advice about their children. About parenting. About why baby Chloe would never go to sleep in her cot and spent the night kicking her mom and dad in the... Read more
Oliver Goldsmith: A wonderful writer, but a pathetic physician
Dr Patrick Rowan | 04 May 2007
Oliver Goldsmith ambled through much of his life without achieving any great success until he started writing. Then everything changed for him. He became famous but in many ways remained the irresponsible person he was during his childhood. Oliver was... Read more
Medical advances over centuries explored in artistic masterpieces
Dr John Wallace | 06 April 2007
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... Read more