John Minahane
Articles by John Minahane
2022
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History
Idols and Good Old Gods
The arrival of Christianity in Ireland and the unhelpful notion of ‘paganism’
2021
2017
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Irish History
Ireland’s Adventure in Spain
During the first few years of the seventeenth century there was a remarkable Irish migration to Spain. The migrants came principally from southwest Cork and…
2014
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Irish Literature
Recovering Princes, Respected Prelates, Reduced Poets
There appears to be some repressive force, almost an enchantment, affecting academic thinking. The experts cannot or will not suspect, let alone address, the crucial…
2013
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HIDING IRELAND
A new history of the English-approved aristocracy of Ireland in the seventeenth century shows remarkable command of official sources but reads as if the other…
2012
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Bitter Truths
A new generation of Slovak poets has rejected the central themes of the communist and Christian past, now seen as lies or illusions. But the…
2011
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Irish Literature
Documents of a Spiritual Resistance
Of the love poems, the two outstanding examples are by an archbishop of Tuam, Maol Mhuire Ó hUigín. One is addressed to a young man…