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 […]
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”