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This Is Who He Is

This Is Who He Is

John O’Brennan

The West has no reason whatever to be surprised by Putin’s invasion

In the Dirt Lay Justice

In the Dirt Lay Justice

Hugh Logue

Derry’s Bloody Sunday and the long fight for justice and accountability

Getting Even

Getting Even

Clare O’Dea

A personal history of the new Irish feminism of the 1970s

Making Israel Unreal

Making Israel Unreal

Donal Moloney

Opinion: The faulty thinking of the boycott and divestment campaign

Killing Bad Guys

Killing Bad Guys

Farrel Corcoran

Lara Marlowe’s memoir of her years with Robert Fisk in love and war

Cometh the Day

Cometh the Day

Richard Humphreys

The case for the union, and the case for respecting law and democracy

The Smartest Boy

The Smartest Boy

Michael Heney

The moral failings and deep hypocrisy of an unusually able Taoiseach

Sweating the Asset

Sweating the Asset

Sean Byrne

The rise of private monopolies in the wake of the Thatcher ‘revolution’

The Pathfinder

The Pathfinder

Tom Hennigan

The megalomania of the leader of Peru’s genocidal Maoist revolutionaries

People Like Us

People Like Us

Bryan Fanning

Progressivism’s dirty secret: the left intellectuals abolish the poor

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