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Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing fantasy and science fiction, but she was also a poet, essayist, historical fiction...
What does the French regional election result mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the French regional election result mean?

...Le Pen probably won’t be the next president of France, but the regional elections are proving that her Front National has truly become a major player. [Marine LePen at a 2008 event] Marine LePen in 2008 Le Pen’s party has taken 28% of the vote in the first of two rounds to elect regional assemblies. The right wing Republican Party, led by former president Nicolas...
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...les jours. La baguette traditionnelle est bien meilleure lorsqu’elle est fraîche, ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les...
“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta
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“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta

...le leathchéad bliain anuas, nó mar sin. Ach is cur chuige é sin a ghlanann na céadtaí bliain den stair agus den scrios a rinneadh ar an teanga, idir polasaithe agus dlithe coilíneacha fríth-Ghaeilge, den insint reatha oifigiúil. Níor chríochnaigh an Ghaeilge ina teanga ‘mionlaithe’ anseo de thaisme. Dhírigh forsaí leatromacha coimhthíocha ar an Ghaeilge...
David Bowie: identity is creativity
Languages

David Bowie: identity is creativity

...sang of his most famous creation, Ziggy Stardust in 1972. This might explain why the extra-terrestrial (whether human or alien) was an abiding metaphor he returned to from the early days of Major Tom in the song Space Oddity (1969) through his re-appearance in Pierrot costume on Ashes to Ashes (1980) and most recent embodiment in the video to his latest single Blackstar...
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...les vacances. J’ai commencé par faire des études de droit, qui finalement ne m’ont pas plu, donc j’ai fait une faculté d’anglais et puis je me suis rendue compte aussi que ce n’était pas fait pour moi, donc j’ai décidé de faire des études d’infirmière. Et je suis maintenant infirmière depuis deux ans et demi. Pour mes amis, je suis euh le...
How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...Le Pen. How did a man without an established party land the top job?...[A child celebrates Emmanuel Macron's victory in the 2017 French Presidential election] A child outside the Louvre celebrates Macron's victory After a tense and often antagonistic election campaign, Emmanuel Macron is to become the next president of France. The result is, of course, in all sorts of...
Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...sang The Clash on ‘Clash City Rockers’, one of their early militant anthems of punk righteousness – Bowie here was a bit of show off – a poseur unconcerned with the real world issues The Clash purported to address in their streetwise, politicized rock. Many of the articles written about Bowie in the aftermath of his death relay familiar narratives: he was...