Just Ourselves

Erasing or opposing?

People Like Us

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

According to John

Pluralist Ireland and the angry politics of John Waters

A Modern Utopian

Dominic Cummings’s big idea: leave the thinking to the scientists

A Safe European Home

In 2015 Germany and Austria agreed on a policy which resulted in the resettling in Europe of more than a million Syrian refugees ‑ a…

Crossing Jordan

Jordan Peterson argues that inequalities experienced under one political system are likely to be recreated in any alternative. Yet surely human ingenuity makes it possible…

Return of the Nativist

The new nativism claims to be based on common-sense solidarity with fellow citizens. It differs from white nationalism and seems almost to wish to promote…

Slaves to a Myth

The notion that large numbers of Irish immigrants were once slaves has been mobilised by the American alt-right to deflect from historical and contemporary racism…

Ghost Frequencies

Immediately a man dies for what he believes, Robert Lynd wrote after the death of Pearse, everything he has said or written assumes a new…

Not a Woman’s Place

A classic study of the figures who made independent Ireland has been reprised after more than fifty years. Taken together, the books illustrate the main…

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Studies of the erosion of Catholic religious practice among the Irish in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s found that many emigrants very quickly melted…

Partisan reviews

From Pearse and Connolly, through AE, Sean O’Faolain, John Mulcahy and Vincent Browne, a number of specialist periodicals have set out to write against the…

Behind the Erin Curtain

If our economic insufficiencies in the 1950s were obvious, and our attempts to address them obviously inadequate, this might not be because history, or our…

Patrick Pearse Predicts the Future

Writing in 1906, the man who would later be one of the leaders of the Easter Rising envisaged a future one hundred years hence in…