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Maradona’s second goal against England in 1986 was one of the still points among all the chaos
Donald Clarke: Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before
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José Salas Subirat, the eccentric first translator of Joyce’s Ulysses into Spanish
The insurance salesman could not speak English, only read it, and plans for a revised edition sank in a plane crash
The Irish Times view on the joy of books: portable magic
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Bertolucci’s legacy marred by ugly stories about ‘Last Tango’
Oscar winner Bernardo Bertolucci was one of Italy's great post-war directors
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Eighth Amendment needs to be finally uprooted, not fertilised with yet more equivocations
The Library of Babel and the information explosion
That’s Maths: Mathematical concepts influenced the structure and style of many of Jorge Luis Borges’ short stories
‘I didn’t feel like an emigrant leaving, but was an alien coming back’
Coming back to Ireland for good is hard. People tell you this. It is not a secret. But it is still a shock.
Exhibition on tour in Argentina takes literary look at Rising
Letter from Buenos Aires: Joyce and Borges at heart of double commemoration for Irish
It can take a long time to feel 'at home' after emigrating
Ireland isn’t exactly ‘just another place’, but it isn’t home anymore, either
Unthinkable: Is all this remembering such a good idea?
The difference between the reality of the men of 1916 and the way they are being used is ‘enormous’, says David Rieff
Sydney Festival shows the city how it can change and grow
The city’s main arts festival has helped transform a suburb. With a changing of the guard can it also alter its own identity?
Bloomsday 1982: when Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Burgess came to pay homage
Anthony Cronin, begetter of the first Bloomsday celebration in 1954, organised one of Dublin’s greatest literary events to mark the centenary of James Joyce’s birth in 1982
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Michael Smith: September 1st, 1942 - November 15th, 2014
Brought to Book: Jonathan Meades on the trial and execution of Tony Blair
‘Learn the word for everything and remember them. Learn the rules and forget them’
English teacher who planted seeds of curiosity about mysteries of the Amazon
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