A new, dystopian order.
In his slim 1977 volume Christ and the Media, Malcolm Muggeridge describes a scene instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with political protest in our TV age. He was in Washington, D.C. working as a correspondent and came across a group of protestors moping about, holding slackened signs, chatting. Bored police were also present. What were they […]
The Táin Bó Cúailgne –sometimes translated as The Cattle Raid of Cooley- is the longest and most significant tale of the Ulster Cycle. It has come down to us in three main recensions, with the earliest extant copies of these being transcribed around the 11th Century. These different recensions overlap in many details and sequences […]
For years, the history of abolitionism has been one of my keenest interests, especially as it has informed my work in the pro-life movement. The first chapter of my 2017 book Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion detailed the tactics used by abolitionists to confront the public with the truth about […]
Rugadh agus tógadh Giolla Phádraig Ó Luchráin sa cheanntar Domhnach Mór i dTír Eoghain sa bhliadhain 1577. Ba ‘s clann cléireach é fosta, ‘gus tháinig sluagh an-mhor as Clann Luchráin chun san Eaglais Gaedhealach gan sos agus gan stad eadar bliadhanta 1389 go 1543. ‘S Clann Ua Luchráin cuid ‘s mó na Leabhar Domhnach Mór […]
The annual traditional music school, Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy, has been moved online for a second year in a row due to Covid restrictions but amongst the online classes, concerts and presentations on offer is a feature of special interest to singers, historians and anyone with a grá for Ireland’s freedom. Who Feared Not the […]
Conchobhair Ó Duibheannaigh: Easpuig Beannaithe ‘gus fíor Mairtír na n-Gaedheal (1532 go 1612) Rugadh Conchobhair Ó Duibheannaigh sa cheanntar Droim Caoin sa Thír Chonaill Thuaidh sa bhliadhain 1532 nó faoi sin, agus togadh é sa cheanntar sin fosta gan amhras nuair a ba h-óig’ air. Bha fear dochreidte é fhéin fosta gan amhras mar rinn […]
PODCAST: John Aidan Byrne interviews Jarvis Rockwell on his father Norman’s legacy as a painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Author Stephen Haggerty, who writes under the name, ST Haggerty, has spent his summers in Arlington, Vermont since he was a toddler so, not surprisingly, the history and folklore of the rural Vermont hamlet is steeped in […]
Recently, I spent some time on the phone with Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian and Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, for a review I was writing of his latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In the first chapter, Ferguson refers several times to religion as “magical thinking,” and I asked him if he […]
Like most truly terrible ideas, the notion that companies, state agencies, and other institutions should proactively discriminate in favour of people from minority backgrounds and races is built on a foundation of good intentions. It is important, after all, to recognise that most people, most of the time, are trying to do good things, and […]
Idir 1937 agus 1946, bhí an scríbhneoir Máirtín Ó Cadhain ag obair faoi scéim de chuid An Gúm ag bailiú focal agus leaganacha cainte as Gaeltacht na Gaillimhe. Le linn na tréimhse sin, chuir Ó Cadhain breis agus aon mhilliún focal d’ábhar chuig An Gúm, agus sin in ord agus in eagar faoi bhreis agus […]
PODCAST: John Aidan Byrne interviews Author MARK HENICK, a TEDx talk sensation, on stranger who saved his life from a teenage suicide attempt; his mental illness growing up, his remarkable recovery and distinguished mental health career By age 15, depression and anxiety had taken their toll on Mark Henick. Clinging to an outside girder […]