One of my favorite things about being a dad is getting to introduce the books I read as a boy to my own children. Just recently, we’ve read through Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and Heidi with our four-year-old, and with the exception of the moment where Peter the goatherd smashes Clara’s wheelchair, which […]
Was Smith right to be angry? Sure, he was.
In Dublin this year
An exhibition presented by the National Archives – The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives – will tour Ireland following a four month stint at Dublin Castle, where the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 went on public display for the first time in the history of the State. Following the success of the exhibition, the National Archives, in […]
Rugadh é ar 10 Bealtaine 1884
Cúil Aodh
Alas, an event like this is bound to be a let-down: After all, it couldn’t possibly be as insufferable as it sounds.
A painting by Dudley G. Summers depicts the Four Chaplains in prayer together on the deck of the torpedoed USAT Dorchester Feb. 3, 1943. Seventy-Five Years Ago, Four U.S. Army Chaplains Made the Ultimate Sacrifice at Sea In the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester was steaming across frigid, U-boat-infested waters in […]
Steven Pinker is a professor of Psychology at Harvard but is perhaps best known for his attacks on religious belief. He is part of a small self-styled intellectual elite who call themselves ‘the Brights’. Best known among them are Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. It is hardly surprising that […]
The Irish State funds this kind of thing because it reflects the view that Irish civil servants and decision makers have of themselves, and the country: A bit of a cut above.
“We can now only avoid Socialism by a change as vast as Socialism”
Patrick Jake (PJ) O’Rourke would not be too well known in Ireland because he would not be the right kind of journalist or political commentator to be celebrated. He died from lung cancer on February 15th, aged 74, with little more than a notice of his passing. He is slightly too much to the right, […]