Irish Literature

A Little More Than Religion

Catholic and Protestant are routinely employed in Northern Ireland as labels denoting ethno-nationalist divisions which date back centuries. But the divisions have little enough to…

Crème de la Crème

A third of Britain’s land still belongs to her aristocracy, nearly half of Scotland is in the hands of 432 individuals and companies and more…

World History

King Cotton

Three elements - imperial expansion, expropriation, and slavery - became central to the forging of a new global economic order that eventually led to the…

Ill Prepared

From the early months of the Influenza pandemic – in Ireland as elsewhere, attempts were under way in universities and laboratories in pursuit of a…