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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Ed McCann

The Last Colony by Philippe Sands: A worthy advocate for the islanders forced into exile

Philippe Sands first came to my attention with the BBC podcast series The Ratline which told the remarkable story of ...

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about 2 years ago
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Ruchira Sharma

Get Rich or Lie Trying is a gut-wrenching exposé of the influencer economy

The Channel 4 reporter's polemic reveals the extreme lengths to which people will go to emulate figures like Kim Kard...

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over 2 years ago
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Tom Bawden

Reading for just 10 minutes a day 'helps transform your well-being, creativity and performance'

From Hamlet to Star Wars, stories are powerful tools - and literature is truly our most powerful invention, says Prof...

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about 3 years ago
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Ed McCann

The Partition – Ireland Divided, 1885-1925: Even-handed history has a familiar feel

In the pantheon of dates in the Decade of Centenaries, the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Northern Ireland ma...

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over 3 years ago
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Barbara Speed

In Having and Being Had, Eula Biss probes the artistic and moral price of a room of one's own

How can you make art under capitalism? In a book that is part-diary, part essay, the writer confronts her own financi...

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over 3 years ago
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Rhiannon Williams

Ready Player Two is a stunningly unoriginal trip back to the future

Ernest Cline's tedious nerd-fest returns for a second incarnation, but fails to answer the deeper questions the autho...

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over 3 years ago
independent.ie

Ed McCann

My Life in Loyalism: Billy Hutchinson gives fresh insights into a murky world

The loyalist perspective on the conflict in the North is one that is rarely articulated and frequently overlooked. Wh...

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