Pat Carty
Arts Journalist at Freelance
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4 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Pat Carty
In The Irish Times in 2023, Dubliner John Boyne, a multimillion selling author thanks to 2006’s The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, wrote about how he was sexually assaulted while in school. Facing up to this trauma, and reporting it, inspired him to write a quartet of novellas to, in his own words, “focus on sexual abuse from four different perspectives”. Consequently, Water, Earth and Fire, all published over the past two years, made for uneasy reading.
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1 week ago |
hotpress.com | Pat Carty
Bono talking. That familiar voice opens over a blank screen. “It is preposterous to think that others might be as interested in your own story as you are.” Is he being disingenuous? Surely Bono knows better than anyone that people are interested in and even fascinated by his story – and that’s probably as true of the league in the wings with slings and arrows at the ready as it is for admirers.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Pat Carty
The band drops out and Keith Scott, Bryan Adams’s guitar man since 1976, plays that four-chord riff at the centre of Run To You, instantly transporting the majority of his audience back to stonewashed denim, school dances and early amorous fumbles. Reckless, the album Adams released in 1984 on his 25th birthday, is a stone-cold classic and impervious to the passing of time.
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3 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Pat Carty
★★★☆☆Queen rule and those who claim to disagree are only fooling themselves. Sadly and for obvious reasons we won’t see them again, although what remains of the band played a great Marlay Park gig in 2018, so their beloved music is perfect tribute band material. As the Bootleg Beatles, mop topping for forty-something years, and others have proven, there’s plenty of interest in this sort of thing if it’s done right.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Pat Carty
Non-fictionOn December 19, 2004, Chris Ward was watching football in his Belfast home when the doorbell rang. Three men barged in and ordered him upstairs to collect his work uniform for the cash centre of the Northern Bank. He was then taken away while his family were made to swear cooperation over a holy picture. Ward was driven to the home of the cash centre’s assistant manager Kevin McMullan in Loughinisland, about 34 kilometres from Belfast.
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