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Comedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’
Comedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’www.irishtimes.comComedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’
Comedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’www.irishtimes.com‘We had to bring a live rooster to the healer. She used its blood to make a poultice’
‘We had to bring a live rooster to the healer. She used its blood to make a poultice’Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: The Curing Line, Michael Gallen’s new opera, has grown out of his study of Irish folk cureswww.irishtimes.comNetflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in August
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in AugustYour guide to streaming, including Alley Cats, Lioness, Dark Matter, The Shards and the return of Ted Lassowww.irishtimes.comYour husband is in an office wearing clean clothes and you are on a bus to Donegal wearing a nappy
Your husband is in an office wearing clean clothes and you are on a bus to Donegal wearing a nappyAmateur Breeders is a new short story by Alice Ryanwww.irishtimes.comSunny start to bank holiday weekend may turn to cloud and rain
Sunny start to bank holiday weekend may turn to cloud and rainTemperatures will remain comparatively high as unsettled weather spreads on Sundaywww.irishtimes.comMarilyn Monroe: a life of endless mystery and metamorphosis in books
Marilyn Monroe: a life of endless mystery and metamorphosis in booksAs a foster kid who became a princess, the screen siren who would now be 100 is the embodiment of the American dreamwww.irishtimes.comJan Morris – A Life by Sara Wheeler: Biography races through writer’s contradictory 94 years
Jan Morris – A Life by Sara Wheeler: Biography races through writer’s contradictory 94 yearsRather than tackle all of Morris’s books, author summarises just one-third of total collectionwww.irishtimes.com‘Build up an extreme well of confidence’: Daniel Kraus on getting in the writing zone
‘Build up an extreme well of confidence’: Daniel Kraus on getting in the writing zoneIn Angel Down, the author adopted a single-sentence structure to reflect the uncertainty of warfarewww.irishtimes.comA Chorus of Ears by Denise Riley: Enjoy the company of an egregiously intelligent companion
A Chorus of Ears by Denise Riley: Enjoy the company of an egregiously intelligent companionRiley is one of our clearest thinkerswww.irishtimes.comProust by Samuel Beckett: A fascinating glimpse of a Nobel laureate ‘in the making’
Proust by Samuel Beckett: A fascinating glimpse of a Nobel laureate ‘in the making’Beckett’s youthful study illuminates the intellectual development of one of Ireland’s most formidable literary talentswww.irishtimes.com