Politics

Too much too soon

The unconsidered perils of the nationalist rush to Irish unity

Irish Politics

Ireland Out of England?

It has been suggested that a second New Ireland Forum should be convened to help dispel unionist fears of the inevitable united Ireland. Perhaps we…

World Politics

Morbid symptoms

The Western literary canon is only one casualty in North American departments of English, superseded by courses designed to redress the sins of white male…

Irish Politics

What’s Hecuba to Him?

In his polemic on Brexit, Fintan O’Toole offers a biographical caricature of a political decision as a man ‑ a white man, a middle-aged or…

World Politics

Your Tribe or Mine?

Multiculturalism has encouraged a rollback from frank discussion, substituting carefully monitored speech in which the identity of the speaker, not the truth-value of what is…

Irish History

An Angry Wind

A new biographical study liberates us from the Yeatsian image of Maud Gonne most of us have lived with, springs her from long existence as…

Irish Art / Culture

Man of Aran

Many cultural commentators and analysts have overlooked Tim Robinson’s many-faceted significance. Matters are now being rectified with three ambitious sets of essays, on his cartography…