EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Requiem for Dublin street traders
EXISTENTIAL THREAT: The closing of marketplaces and the eradication of traditional street traders
[Pic: D Speirs/On and Alive Alive O]
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
OVER the years the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith has presented many films by Ireland’s celebrated, documentary filmmaker Se Merry Doyle.
In this double bill Looking On and Alive Alive O – A Requiem for Dublin it is showing two of his most powerful films, which complement each other. Both focus on the destruction of Dublin’s inner city and the demolition of hundreds of homes and tenement dwellings.
Looking On was Merry Doyle’s first film, made in 1982. Forty years later it still stands as a vital voice for the people of Dublin.
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