The Library of Trinity College Dublin makes a 13th century masterpiece globally accessible
In Tandem spotlights the Story of the Milwaukee Chef and Restaurant’s Innovative Approach to Lowering the Unemployment Rate in a Struggling Community
Armed with poles and boiling water
We have no problem recognising that alcohol, tobacco, and gambling are bad for us. And yet in not one of those pursuits is a young person violently humiliated for the entertainment of others.
Three former contestants have died by suicide.
Paddy O’Brien, Séamus Connolly, Charlie Lennon
For such a small island, Ireland certainly punches well above its weight in many fields. And one of those fields just so happens to be innovative, world-changing inventions. Here are just ten. Sudocrem Sudocrem is a remarkably popular product around the world, with almost 35 million pots sold each year. Part of its popularity is […]
For my wife’s birthday several years ago, I tracked down a copy of Harper’s Weekly from May 16, 1857. It was filled with gossip from the royal houses of Europe; news from various mission fields and Bible societies (including an update on The Reverend Mr. Spurgeon and the state of the Metropolitan Bible Tabernacle), a few long […]
The ‘religion of antiracism’
The real caped crusader.
It is 70 years since Whitaker Chambers’ Cold War classic, ‘Witness’ was first released a few years after the famous trial in the United States where Alger Hiss was accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Described as part literary effort, part philosophical treatise, the autobiography of a former […]
On this Day: 8th May 1916, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Seán Heuston and Cornelius Colbert were executed. On Sunday, 7th May, 1916, Éamonn Ceannt was informed at 4 p.m. that he was to be shot at 3:45 a.m. the following morning. Upon receiving this news Ceannt requested writing materials, and wrote his last words to […]