Frank Furedi, a British emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, prolific author and established social commentator, has mapped the history of what we now call identity politics in his latest book. In it he traces the century long evolution of theory and behaviour that in some ways is also a recycling of perennial issues in […]
Foilsíodh plean cúig bliana le déanaí chun úsáid na Gàidhlig a mhéadú agus an teanga a chur chun cinn i nGlaschú. Is é fís an phlean ná “Faoi 2028 beidh an Ghàidhlig níos so-aimsithe, níos forleithne, níos feiceálaí agus níos ceiliúrtha i nGlaschú ná in aon chathair eile ar domhan. Táthar ag súil go n-éireoidh […]
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Two set dances
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 […]