Society & Culture September 24, 2021 0 Where is Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World? For Christmas two years ago, my mother bought me a copy of Sally Rooney’s novel…
Society & Culture September 12, 2021 0 Cuban Love Songs Launch In a rousing introductory speech, retired diplomat Philip McDonagh described the publication of Cuban Love…
Society & Culture August 19, 2021 0 Shakespeare’s Wisdom in Troubled Times As a barrister I am given to quoting from Shakespeare’s plays in closing speeches. This…
Society & Culture July 15, 2021 0 A Grá for the Language An grá is an gráin, say these two words out loud, say them out loud…
Society June 5, 2021 0 Our Barmy Bread The appeal of exotic cuisines and esoteric diets has done little to diminish bread’s status…
Culture May 20, 2021 0 Thrills & Difficulties: A Marxist Poet in Ireland for Susan Millar DuMars More than a quarter of a century ago a man-child called…