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Arts
fromIndependent
3 days ago

Artist Francis O'Toole: 'I spent a long time in St James's Hospital watching my foot, and lower leg, slowly rot and turn black. I eventually ended up with a below-knee amputation'

Francis O'Toole grew up in Fatima Mansions, Ballymun, Jobstown, Tallaght, and Crumlin with minimal art education, roaming streets, fields, back lanes, and scrap yards.
Music
fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

Tupac's life was 'yin and yang,' writes author of 'Only God Can Judge Me'

Tupac Shakur evolved from an awkward teenager into a magnetic, contradictory artist whose early life shaped his music and tragic death.
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