Person: Susan Sontag

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p> Former president Mary McAleese with Patrick Kielty on the first episode of the 61st series of the Late Late Show. Picture: RTÉ</p>

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Letters to the Editor: Nothing new in Mary McAleese's comments on the Church

One reader challenges Mary McAleese's comments about the Catholic Church, while others consider issues including the conflict in the Middle East

Suzanne Harrington: Hag hate and the stubborn belief that age only happens to other people

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The people have failed politicians, who are just trying to appease us

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What's our obsession with anti-aging?

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Book review: The Violet Hour — Great Writers At The End

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Book review: Multitudes

Let’s see more support for those managing depression

Let’s hope that we can start now to focus on building ‘a proper constituency of support’, as Olivia O’Leary put it, for people with mental health difficulties, writes Clodagh Finn

Sat, 07 May, 2016

Four horsemen of New Camp

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, if they have been named, have never been described. — Susan Sontag.

Mon, 28 Mar, 2016

Grey hair is the 'in' colour and they've found the gene that causes it

Grey hair is hot as hell and we should embrace it says Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 07 Mar, 2016

Killing time with the last of the Beats

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

Fri, 21 Feb, 2014

Lenihan subordinated his illness to try and put Ireland’s finances in order

THE prognosis — that he would quickly die of his diagnosed heart disease — was not the worst problem Norman Cousins faced.

Mon, 13 Jun, 2011

When it comes to the task of dying, ordinary people get the better deal

Not so long ago, cancer sufferers pretended they didn’t have the disease. Neither they nor their families acknowledged the Big C. Now, it is an occasion for exploration in books, newspaper columns, blogs or – in the case of Farrah Fawcett – a TV documentary

Mon, 29 Jun, 2009

Susan Sontag dies

Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined “zealot of seriousness” whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died in New York today. She was 71.

Tue, 28 Dec, 2004