Philip O’Connor
Articles by Philip O’Connor
2019
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Irish Politics
The Polariser
He was the most important Irish intellectual of the twentieth century, though he got many things wrong, some of them in the pursuit of consistency.…
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Irish History
Crushing Democracy
Probably no independence movement in history, anywhere, enjoyed the overwhelming democratic mandate of the First Dáil, which was suppressed by Britain. Yet curiously the meaning…
2017
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Irish Politics
The Green Island
A valuable study of the treatment of Ireland in sections of the German print media shows an evolution from a reliance on a jumble of…
2016
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Irish Politics
Beyond the Failure Narrative
A version of independent Ireland’s economic history which ignores the unfavourable starting point and then goes on to compare our performance with states whose circumstances…