Lessons from the Great Depression III
Don’t you ever read the papers? Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the…
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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…
Jack B. Yeats: Painting and Memory
Often overshadowed by his elder, Nobel laureate, brother W.B., Jack Butler Yeats occupies an exalted…
The Significance of Religion in the World
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For…
Love and Literature in Numbers
Whenever I think about Literature I think about Love. Both are written with big Ls.…
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.…
Czech Intellectuals: Kafka and Kundera
I was briefly a Professor of Law and International Relations at the Anglo-American University in…
Post-Pandemic Marketing Strategies
Contemporary marketers must simultaneously think global, local, and glocal factors in order to stay ahead…
Ireland and Colombia: the Coal Connection
Most Irish people could not imagine what links their country with Colombia, or even the…
Iconic Documentaries About Guitarists and Guitars
Watching documentaries about music and musicians is a great way to entertain yourself and learn…
COVID-19: Virtual Work a Bridge Too Far?
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by…
A Few Good Men and Women
In the wake of the murder by a police officer of the unfortunate Sarah Everard,…
The Dogs and Deer with Fionn mac Cumhaill
We’ve lost Fionn and his Fianna, the stories that were told for hundreds, thousands of…
Plagues of Prejudice
In December 1899 Honolulu-based physicians attributed two deaths to bubonic plague, and a local paper…