Since the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising the men and the words that inspired the eventual founding of the Irish Republic are thankfully being given a prominence by at least some people in the public arena – in places such as the voluntarily restored monument of Kilmainham Gaol. There are two facets to Kilmainham […]
Taxation to make life a little more difficult: it feels like the divine right of kings revisited.
Oregon, the first American state to permit assisted suicide, has abandoned a key safeguard in its ground-breaking legislation. Its 1997 Death With Dignity Act stipulated that a person who receives a lethal prescription must be a “resident of Oregon”. This makes it more likely that the person’s doctor will be able to assess his eligibility for assisted suicide – […]
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Births are rising during the tormented country’s fragile peace
The famous philosopher died in January
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant. The estate was massive and included lands in Leitrim, Donegal, Kildare and Galway. Lord Leitrim was obsessed with improving land productivity. He evicted families or sometimes paid them to […]
It was estimated that more than 400 people died at Doolough
In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made
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‘I’m not a biologist,’ says Ketanji Brown Jackson
A Kenyan argues that the new style in newspapers is just virtue-signalling