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Declan Murphy is one of the few people who has had the strange honour of reading his own obituary. In May 1994, The Racing Post published a front page story with the headline “Declan Murphy Dies After Horror Fall,” recounting in full detail incident at Haydock Park that had claimed the life of the accomplished jockey. The article was accurate …
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Since Paula Hawkins’ psychological thriller Girl on The Train was released in 2015, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, catapulting its author from a life of obscurity to international fame. Paula is now back with a follow-up, Into the Water, just in time for the book to appear on the bestseller list for summer 2017. She was …
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they moved from basic dwellings to mansions, sent their children to study in Europe, hired white servants, and travelled in chauffeured cars. Then, in 1921, the killing began. Over the next two years, …
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Okay, so your friend has just had a baby, you want to get a present, so off you go to the kids’ clothes shops, searching for a nice little outfit, maybe. And well before you put your foot through the door of each of those shops, your eyes are immediately drawn to two very distinct and identifiable groups of clothing. …
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Donal Ryan has returned to his day job in the public service. It’s a headline that did the rounds in recent times in literary, entertainment and cultural circles, with many people lamenting the fact that a bestselling author should be somehow “forced” back to regular, salaried employment, because the income from book sales is so low. On Today with Sean …
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TV and Radio presenter Fearne Cotton joined Ryan Tubridy to speak about her experience of depression, and the book that she has written which charts her journey through the disease. “It was tough to write because obviously it’s very personal, but actually I found the whole process massively cathartic” Fearne admits that she has always dipped in and out of ‘having …
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Author and former undertaker Jeremy Massey spoke with Ryan Tubridy this morning about his view of death from a personal, and professional perspective. Born in to the undertaking business, he was involved in organising funerals from his teenage years and spoke about the intimate nature of such a difficult job. “I don’t even know how many funerals I’ve arranged or …
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The Dark Ages is how historians describe a half-millennium period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire, a description implying some kind of collapse of civilisation entirely. It’s routinely contrasted with The Age of Enlightenment, beginning around the start of the 18th century, when humankind embraced reason and science over dogma and superstition. The Information Age is how many …
