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Dublin crowds bid farewell to Shane MacGowan
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» DUBLIN - Crowds lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to their pay respects to the Irish songwriter Shane MacGowan, who died last month at the age of 65.
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Ireland bids farewell to Sinead O'Connor
AFP, Published on 08/08/2023
» BRAY, Ireland: Mourners and fans gathered Tuesday in the Irish town once home to singer Sinead O'Connor to pay their last respects ahead of her burial.
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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor dies
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» DUBLIN: Irish pop singer Sinead O'Connor, who shot to worldwide fame in the 1990s, has died at the age of 56, Irish media reported on Wednesday.
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$6m raised to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home
AFP, Published on 24/05/2023
» NEW YORK: An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly US$6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organisers said Tuesday.
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Van Gogh's frenzied final days highlight of new show
AFP, Published on 11/05/2023
» AMSTERDAM: Vincent Van Gogh's feverish final months in a French village, when he churned out masterpieces even as he spiralled into despair, are the subject of a one-off exhibition opening this week in Amsterdam.
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Kandinsky masterpiece sells for record $45 million
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» LONDON - Wassily Kandinsky's masterpiece "Murnau Mit Kirche II", recently recovered by the descendants of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $45 million on Wednesday, a record for the artist according to auctioneers Sotheby's.
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The Dutch art detective who recovered the 'Blood of Christ' relic
AFP, Published on 12/07/2022
» AMSTERDAM - It was 10:30 pm on a Friday when Arthur Brand got the delivery he was nervously expecting.
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Dublin celebrates 'Bloomsday' as Joyce's 'Ulysses' hits 100
AFP, Published on 16/06/2022
» DUBLIN - One hundred years ago, a wandering Irish writer emerged from the ashes of World War I with a reworking of Greek myth that still retains the power to shock, to confound and to intrigue.
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Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France's Pantheon
AFP, Published on 22/08/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.
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Musical legend Josephine Baker to enter France's Pantheon
AFP, Published on 22/08/2021
» PARIS - The remains of Josephine Baker, a famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who also fought in the French resistance during WWII, will be moved to the Pantheon mausoleum in November, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday.
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