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THIS retelling of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon narrative poem, is a vehicle for a father to communicate with his nine-year-old son.

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William Burroughs’ centenary occurs this month. The West Cork-based photographer John Minihan recalls meeting the controversial author in London

Last Tuesday was a mixed bag for grapplers.

It is a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs’s iconic creation appeared in print. Richard Fitzpatrick looks at the evolution of oneof the most famous fictional characters of our times

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

Since Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 'A Princess of Mars' was published nearly 100 years ago, his otherworldly tale story has been subsequently been reworked and riffed on by nearly every sci-fi book or movie to follow.

George Whitman offered refuge to writers and readers at his unique bookstore in Paris, writes Carl Dixon

IT’S a reflection, presumably, of our uncertainty about the world’s immediate future in these times of economic recessions and global warming, but Another Earth (12A) is the second film this year, after Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, to feature a new planet appearing in the solar system.

Gardaí in Co Laois have today appealed for anyone with information in connection with the death of Diane Burroughs to come forward.

GARDAÍ were questioning a man as part of an investigation into the discovery of a woman’s body in a small town in Co Laois.

Seven children who had been adopted by a single family were killed in a fiery crash when their car was crushed between a lorry and a stationary school bus in rural Florida.