Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish Connections
The life of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, has been celebrated on two primary occasions in…
Browsing: History and Economics
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…
Lessons from the Great Depression (II)
Ger-mania… Extraordinarily, Germany appears on the brink of following the lead of Austria in mandating…
Lessons From the Great Depression (I)
This is the first instalment of a three part essay on the legacy of the…
The Grandfather Clause
‘Where DID we come from?’ Coincidence? The Sahara was not always a desert. As evidenced…
The Significance of Religion in the World
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For…
Housing: A Banker Speaks Out
It is often said the current Irish housing crisis is mainly the result of a…
Reviving Martin Heidegger’s Dasein – Be-ing
Before a recent online poetry reading I was invited to meet with other international participants.…
Irish Housing: Historic Roots of a Crisis
As a UCD undergraduate I recall Professor Tom Bartlett likening Irish history to a pint…
Corporate Social Responsibility
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business” Henry Ford.…
Post-Pandemic Marketing Strategies
Contemporary marketers must simultaneously think global, local, and glocal factors in order to stay ahead…
COVID-19: Virtual Work a Bridge Too Far?
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by…
Public Intellectuals: Hannah Arendt
A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that…
Chambí’s World: Martín Chambi (1891-1973)
Before Ireland’s third pandemic lockdown began, in December 2020, I paid a visit to my…
Tales from a Fourth Industrial Revolution
Back to the Future in search of ‘Green’ Conversations, perceptions and priorities change over time.…
Recalling W.G. Sebald
The attention in W. G. Sebald’s writing to the fascist era in European history anticipates…