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Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature
After decades of campaigning by the suffragettes, a 1918 Act gave a limited cohort of women the right to vote in parliamentary elections
A year after the Harvey Weinstein revelations, a professor decided to do some deep reading
Film director most well known for ‘Shoah’ which he spent 12 years making
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Housing, shame and isolation among concerns in ‘Ethical Stakes of Ageing’ report
Long after existentialist philosopher’s death, simmering rivalry links protagonists
Patrick Freyne: This is where the experiment in democratic self-governance has led
Terminations and related expenses are covered by state with 211,900 performed in 2016
Paris Letter: France mourns Jeanne Moreau, an actor of fierce intelligence
Unthinkable: Examples include ‘women being pressured – not quite to the point of outright coercion – to have sex, or to have sex without contraception’, says philosopher Ann Cahill
Sometimes it just takes a little role-play to ensure you end up with the desired result
'No beige', says Carleton Viney, who has been asked to redesign the next US ambassador's Phoenix Park residence
When truth becomes wholly disposable we are endangered beyond measure
Irish governments have been slow to draw on philosophers, argues Joseph Mahon
You’ve met a kind, loving person but you don’t want them, you want the broody narcissist: why?
Evelyn Conlon: ‘Art allows us – dares us – to let the imagination take the reins, wander to the edge of time or wherever suggests an answer ... to lift us out of the political maelstrom’
Deadliest violence to strike France since 1945 was probably the mass killing of Algerians by Paris police in 1961
Satirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his style
The City of Lights changes, but the Left Bank has retained its classic old-school charm down through the centuries
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Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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