Public Intellectual: Voltaire
Voltaire (1694-1778) is the self-invented name of François-Marie Arouet, riffed on a childhood description of…
Browsing: History and Economics
Review: Chile in Their Hearts
U.S. citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi were detained and executed in Chile during the…
Public Intellectuals: Leonardo Sciascia
Corruption is worse than prostitution; the latter might endanger the morals of an individual. The…
Public Intellectuals: Charles Darwin
In a court case in Kent recently I detoured to the small village of Down…
Putting the ‘Public’ Back into Enterprise
Part I of this series examined Mario Draghi’s recent proposals for reforming the E.U.’s economic…
The Missing Link in Draghi’s E.U. Plan
This article is the first in a forthcoming three-part series by Cillian Doyle on the…
Ivor Browne R.I.P
It’s hard for those of us who work in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy to…
Responsible Business
The ten principles of the U.N. Global Compact, formed in 2000, sought to realign business…
Fine Dining in Ireland During WWII
Dublin was the second city of the British Empire until end of the eighteenth century.…
The Restaurant Experience
The anthropologist Jack Goody pours scorn on modern dining habits. Solitary consumption he says reverses…
Hitching the Plough to the Stars
Paul O’Brien’s biography, Sean O’Casey, Political Activist and Writer (Cork University Press) is a timely…
Unmasking the Tawdry Yarns
In the essential Boomer text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance one of the…
Voyaging the Kerribrasilian Sea
this is tropical truth this is celtic truth this is Hy Brasil in the Kerribrasilian…
Donal Fallon’s Burning Question
Deities or daimons held strong associations with the cities of Classical Rome and Greece, projecting…
Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish Connections
The life of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, has been celebrated on two primary occasions in…
The Barrington Disconnect
Winifred Barrington, only daughter of Sir Charles Barrington, led a charmed life – far removed…
A Variety of Voices
‘I have never met a man so in love with the written word – provided…
Writing Against the Grain
This is the first of two articles occasioned by the recent publication of Periodicals and…
Lessons from the Great Depression III
Don’t you ever read the papers? Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the…
The Brick Wall: Access to Justice
I’m living in cloud cuckoo land And this just feels like Spinning plates Radiohead, Like…