Society

Are Irish schoolbooks antisemitic?

A recent report claims that Irish school textbooks misrepresent Judaism and minimise the Holocaust. But do these charges stack up?

Irish History

The Queen’s English

Language shift in Ireland has usually been seen as deriving from integration into the British economy and the resulting pragmatic choices made by peasants. But…

Irish Art / Culture

Gaelic and Catholic?

The coincidence of an enthusiasm for Gaelic culture and devout Catholicism in many of the revolutionary generation, and later in the official ideology of the…