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Jem Finer of the Pogues: a millennium in music

What makes a piece of music timeless?

By Colm McAuliffe

Jem Finer of the Pogues: a millennium in music

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Life after addiction: John Doran on music and other drugs

“Alcoholism is a self-inflicted leisure injury. . . I refuse to portray myself as this helpless victim. I sound…

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Tracing the aftershocks: the explosion in Kent that was felt in East Anglia

The story of an obscure munitions disaster during the First World War meets a fragile form of biography.

By Colm McAuliffe

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