Much as some engineers would like to ignore politics, it’s irresponsible to do so. I’m not saying you have to be a political junkie, but an awareness of the ultimate purposes and effects of the organisation you work for is part of being a responsible engineer. Writing in the Human Life Review, bioethicist Wesley J. Smith […]
A review of the 2018 Irish abortion legislation is scheduled for 2021. In a sane society, evidence for such a review would be routinely collected from the medics providing the abortion. In other countries, that is indeed what happens. There is some variation among these countries in the amount of data collected. But information about […]
Of all the writing where Pearse elucidates his revolutionary conscience, his poem ‘The Rebel’ is clearest. There is a searing sense of righteous pain in its lines, arising from the sense of a denial of destiny -a betrayal of the dignity of humanity formed in God’s image. It harkens back to Robert Emmet’s speech from […]
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days. These illustrations were by Brian O’Higgins, also known as Brian na Banban, who was an Irish writer, poet, soldier and politician. He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers […]
Dublin’s O’Connell Street locked down on Easter Sunday Photo credit: Krzysztof M
Easter is perhaps the most important time of the year to remember those who fought for our freedom, and by commemorating the past, we look forward to the future. We celebrate the various battles in the fight for Irish Freedom and recall with pride the ultimate price paid by many of those involved. For Christians, […]
Fr. PJ Hughes was fined 500 euro and threatened with arrest for saying Mass to a handful of parishioners in Co. Cavan yet in Knock, over the Easter weekend, a greater number were present in the Basilica for the Good Friday solemnities yet there was no word from the Gardai. The presence of RTÉ transforms […]
Barcelona has just rolled out a pilot program where carebots will be deployed to assist in the homes of the elderly living alone. The seniors will be closely monitored in their overall wellbeing before, during, and after the carebots’ stay, and findings will be used to fine-tune the carebots’ programming and use. Around 90,000 elderly […]
Good Friday Procession in the Phoneix Park Photo credit: Krzysztof M
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 […]
The Decade of Centenaries Programme that was initiated in 2012 and which is set to end in 2023 has allowed us to revisit and to celebrate some of the great milestones of Irish history. These include the foundation of the Irish Volunteers, the Home Rule and Land Bills, the 1913 Lockout, the 1916 Rising, the […]
A report from the Roman Province of Judea “I, Lucius Tacitus, write from the Province of Judea in the month of Aprilis, the XIX year of the reign of the August Caesar Tiberius. Events have come to pass in the Province this past month which must be brought to the attention of the August Caesar, Tiberius. The Province has long been an […]