John Horgan
Articles by John Horgan
2021
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History
They Heard the Call
A history of Ireland’s main Catholic seminary has a much wider focus than the merely institutional
2019
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Irish History
Protestant and Irish
Three historians discuss issues raised by a new anthology outlining the varieties of Protestant experience in independent Ireland. Topics touched upon include religious segregation in…
2018
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World Politics
Saving Democracy
The most radical critics of our contemporary political systems offer solutions that sound more like symptoms of the illness than any possible cure. Surely there…
2017
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Irish Politics
The New Souperism
Irish parents are often forced to have their children participate in a form of religious observance in which they themselves do not believe in exchange…
2016
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Irish History
Out of the Rut
The 1960s saw Ireland escaping for a few years from the glumness of the previous decade before crisis returned in 1973. It was a happy…
2015
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Irish History
Death by Respectability?
The discussion group Tuairim, active in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s, made many thoughtful contributions to intellectual debate, but it is another matter to…