Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Luminous Spaces
Seamus Deane’s contribution to the formulation of a new republicanism
Usuns, Themuns, Others
The complex lessons of the Northern Ireland population census
The Primacy of Politics
The thinkers and thought that underlay the War of Independence
A Classical Education
Enda O’Doherty writes: “Sorry,” my friend said. “I didn’t get that.” “Get what?” “What you said just now. Something in Latin I think … Not all of us, you know, had the benefit of a classical education.” I can no longer remember what the offending tag or reference was but I doubt if it…
Greed or Good?
Business and politics: two views on how they should interact
Writers United
The pros and cons of bringing writers together in a corporate body
Full Throttle
Dark but exhilarating stories of surreal events and parallel universes
For Your Discomfort
Lullabies, but not the kind you’d want to sing to your baby
A Model for Everything
Maths, microeconomics and ‘losing sight of the bigger picture’
The Irish Reach
The influence of Gaels and Gaelic tradition on Old English poetry
Against the Tide
George Berkeley interprets the mysterious language of God
Flowers of Orwell
Putting economic and social justice at the heart of the ecological project