Preventing Mam from accepting a hug from a friend at my sister’s funeral will haunt me forever
Gestures ubiquitous at Irish funerals before the pandemic ravaged the world were no longer allowed during the most surreal period in a generation
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch’s artistic outlook: ‘There should be pictures of real people who breathed, who suffered, felt, loved’
Berlin’s state gallery has pulled out all the stops for the city’s first Munch exhibition in 30 years
Johnny Watterson: Are green and orange equal in NI soccer or is one of them just not worth it?
O’Neill rightly pointed out that God Save The Queen doesn’t represent team’s diversity
Strong currents: the pull of the sea, from Mayo to Oslo, in Amanda Bell’s Riptide
Tracing the power of water and art in a poet’s work, from Donald Teskey to Edvard Munch
Shakespeare wrote King Lear in lockdown. What did you achieve?
An Irishwoman’s Diary on auditing your lockdown goals
Art online: Prize-winning portraits and little-known Mondrians
The National Gallery is offering online exhibitions as the public stays at home
The art of medical observation
First-year medical students learn to observe intensely by dissecting paintings
Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives
The Room to Improve sun god has enlisted them to build his Great Pyramid of Giza
David McGoldrick so exceptional his goal drought can be forgiven
Sheffield United’s Irish forward yet to score in Premier League but is central to club’s success
Time not on Solskjaer’s side as Manchester United face into a tricky period
A home defeat to Liverpool would pile added pressure on Old Trafford boss
Strong prices for Waterford Crystal and U2’s first press pack
Auctions, results and fairs dates for your diary
So Much Longing in So Little Space review: Knausgaard’s Munch analysis is like a secular Bible
Author’s egotistical diversions can be forgiven for this intriguing inquiry in to the painter
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices