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For one of The Rolling Stones' biggest songs, the band sought to capture its urgent energy by using curiously cheap recording ...

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and ...

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