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Bob Dylan at 80: There is dark, sly laughter behind his most puzzling lyrics

You would need to be an awful nitwit to let yourself be irritated by Dylan’s attempts to sound deep.

By Colm Tóibín

Bob Dylan at 80: There is dark, sly laughter behind his most puzzling lyrics

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Romancing rebellion: the culture that spawned the Irish rebels of Easter 1916

Despite the wealth of sources on this subject, a puzzle remains: not only about the effect of the rebellion…

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