A Variety of Voices
‘I have never met a man so in love with the written word – provided…
Browsing: history
A Brief History of My Father
In 1960 when I was seven, before TV, Radio Éireann was our window on the…
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…
Plagues of Prejudice
In December 1899 Honolulu-based physicians attributed two deaths to bubonic plague, and a local paper…
Confronting ‘the Russia in Ourselves’
The Russian bear looms in the English-speaking imagination as savage and barbaric, but with a…
History’s Dead Hand on the Middle East
Last month’s opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem served to re-ignite Palestinian rage against…
Twosome Twiminds in Casement and Joyce
Where to begin the story of Roger Casement, humanitarian crusader, knight of the British realm,…