A peace vigil will be held in Dublin's city centre on Sunday 11 September to commemorate the victims of the New York, London and Bali terrorist attacks, as well as those who died in the "War on Terror" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Millions of words will be written about this year's events in the peace process in Ireland. Maybe millions of words have been written already. Certainly a million times that amount have been spoken. Sometimes in anger. Or with scepticism. Or disappointment.
Billy Leahy looks at the new Desmond Shortt exhibition at the RHA: a collection of dreamlike landscapes which, upon further examination, reveal a more sinister and dangerous air
You'd think the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, at 8.15am on your average work morning would be finishing a toasted bagel, thinking of getting out of the old Bruce Springsteen t-shirt and boxers, marking his page of Plato, switching off Lyric FM, and getting in to the Department to maintain – or some might say establish – justice, equality and law reform.
A jockey struggles with his weight in Health Squad; Jack shows the different directions in which our lives can turn and TG4 weighs in with two great short films. By Dermot Bolger
Colm Toibín reviews a
new book about America's most respected literary critic, Edmund Wilson
Like any child of our times, Village loves a good competition – from Best Film Ever Made to Worst Number One of the Century, you can consider us ready and willing to voice our opinion. When it comes to polls of books, Village is never happier than when elbow-deep in Man Booker longlists or Waterstone's vote for the 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. However (and we blame Channel 4) round about the turn of the century, some lazy marketing executive or salesman changed the rules, and took all the fun out of these polls.
In the same way as the excerpts from John McGahern's Memoir in two Saturday newspapers surely refreshed eyes and spirits tired of summer silliness, the author's reading on Book on One restored appreciation of the power of radio to make us listen and be moved and stunned and to emerge feeling a little bit kinder about the human race.
Colin Murphy is seduced by the music, words, bawdiness and fun of The Midnight Court in Feakle, Co Clare