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Music | Zohra, the Afghan women’s orchestra

Pauric Keenan/April 20, 2017March 16, 2018

Hailing from a variety of towns and regions in Afghanistan, Zohra isn’t your average orchestra – in fact one would…

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Insight | Misrepresented fundamentalism and the war on political correctness

Rob Barnes/March 3, 2017February 2, 2018

During the second and third US Presidential debates last year, the then Republican nominee and current President Donald Trump raised the…

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Opinion | Elite origin of the Irish language revival is hindering learning

Ciarán Weafer/November 7, 2016March 15, 2018

On the 25 November 1892, when Douglas Hyde – he who later became the first president of the Irish Republic…

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Opinion | Dylan’s win reboots the Nobel Prize for Literature

Graham Mooney/October 14, 2016February 2, 2018

Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Validation at last for the voice of a generation; another trophy in…

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