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Words from the People

Words from the People

Síle Ní Mhurchú

An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection, by John Creedon, Gill Books, 312 pp, €24.99, ISBN: 978-0717194223 The Schools’ Collection was a scheme initiated by the Irish Folklore Commission in the 1930s whereby children throughout the Irish Free State were instructed to gather lore and local […]

Out of the Doldrums

Out of the Doldrums

Richard Pine

The second Irish cultural revival of the late 1950s and early ’60s

I’m Dangerous, Me

I’m Dangerous, Me

Kevin Power

Shriver’s irritation: a pose that doesn’t add up to a set of ideas

A Surrealist’s Journey

A Surrealist’s Journey

Eoin O’Brien

The life and myriad achievements of scientist and artist Desmond Morris

Artistic Differences

Artistic Differences

Martin Tyrrell

The Fab Two: Lennon and McCarney working with and against each other

Beyond Chatter

Beyond Chatter

Sean Sheehan

Making sense: the ‘antiphilosophical’ philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Spreading Civilisation

Spreading Civilisation

Eoin Dillon

Lecky, liberalism and Britain’s role as world leader

The English School

The English School

Paul O’Mahoney

A defence of the centrality of history to  international relations

A State of Chassis

A State of Chassis

John Fanning

How neoliberalism hollows out liberalism and democracy

Luminous Spaces

Luminous Spaces

David Lloyd

Seamus Deane’s contribution to the formulation of a new republicanism

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