Frank Callanan
Articles by Frank Callanan
2020
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‘Staunch Fine Gael’
Garret FitzGerald, who had voted Fianna Fáil in 1961, believed his own thinking to be closer to Labour and he and other party liberals positively…
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The Right People
It is offensive to regard true democratic values as the exclusive possession of classic liberalism. But perhaps we should all audit the prejudices we derive…
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World Politics
Ourselves Alone
As the scale of Labour’s defeat became clear, a succession of Corbynists emerged to insist that the voters’ rejection of their policies was not a…
2019
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Irish Politics
The Polariser
He was the most important Irish intellectual of the twentieth century, though he got many things wrong, some of them in the pursuit of consistency.…
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Irish History
Beyond Tweedledum and Tweedledee
The thesis that there are no real differences between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael does not hold water. The two parties have significant differences of…
2017
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Irish Literature
Reasonable Doubt
A study of Joyce’s literary use of the law by the late Adrian Hardiman stresses the writer’s ‘persistent assertion of the need for philosophical and…
2016
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Irish History
Sins of the Advocate
The Irish-American lawyer John Quinn defended Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap of the ‘Little Review’ from prosecution for publishing extracts from ‘Ulysses’. The prosecution led…
2015
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Irish History
A Necessary Correction
Arthur Griffith: the most misunderstood major figure in modern Irish history
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Irish History
The Turn of the Wheel
The story of John Redmond’s final rise and fall is by no means an easy one to tell, but a new study has given shrewd…
2013
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Irish Politics
The Road to Partition
At times the Irish question in its final parliamentary phase resembles a vast deserted asylum whose last inhabitants are its historians, who begin to fear…
2012
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The Thing That Never Was
The casting of John Redmond in the role of scapegoat was not without functional advantage in Irish politics. That partition could in some degree be…
2010
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Minority Report
In August 1880 Parnell acted as Michael Horgan’s best man at his wedding. When he came to fetch the groom he thought him nervous and…