The first visit to Northern Ireland by the legendary Berliner Ensemble theatre company and world premieres of productions by Sophie Hunter, Adrian Dunbar and Max Stafford-Clark are among the highlights of Happy Days, the fifth international Samuel Beckett festival held by, and frequently in, the Fermanagh lakes at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
He was born in 1821, which made him a good seven years older than Rossetti, Hunt and Millais (Rossetti, indeed, had first made contact by asking whether Brown might take him on as a pupil).
Stevens reckons the fact that hunters (or, if the law is being observed, pseudo-hunters) are now more likely to be professional people who have moved to the Cotswolds than farmers who were born there has changed the nature of hunting.
Birmingham born and bred, he went to the city's King Edward School and is an Aston Villa fan.
The council had been asked to rule on the case of Ahmed Sahnouni, a Moroccan-born man naturalised in 2003, who was convicted and given a seven-year prison sentence in March 2013 for "association with criminals in relation to a terrorist plot".
Earlier this week, Valls said the removal of a person's nationality "is a legitimate question that arises regarding the consequences to which a person exposes themselves when they decide to attack the nation to which they belong because they were born there or have been accepted there".
Petrolhead sci-fi romp Mad Max: Fury Road and love story Carol are the movies currently picking up the most social media attention from the Cannes film festival, according to new research.
That's often the brilliance of a thought, that people put their own meaning in to it," says Hegarty, one of the founders of the BBH agency, recalling his trip 30 years ago to the Audi workshop during which the genus of the idea was born.
The work that Snow, who was born 200 years ago last Friday, undertook to prove his case remains a classic of medical detection and reveals Snow as one of the founders of epidemiology, a science that has since helped unravel the causes of a host of illnesses and saved countless lives.
When Brooke was first born, Lewis couldn't claim benefits because they considered him a dependant on his girlfriend's student loans; but she couldn't go to college because she was busy having a baby.
The basics are right: Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff and called Ginty by her family; her father, Travers Goff (Colin Farrell), was a heavy drinker and a fantasist; she never got over his premature death and romanticised his brief, hapless life (and took his first name as her surname).
