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"In the last few weeks,” the theologian Jacob Phillips recently remarked, “I’ve spoken at various Catholic events which were full to the brim with recent converts in the 18-30 age range...

Catherine Connolly is Ireland’s new president. Connolly, who was backed by the hard-left parties, received 63 percent of the vote, the highest percentage for any presidential candidate in Ireland’s...

In the year 1075, under the leadership of Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury, an Italian, the Synod of London decreed that marriages with first cousins, sixth cousins, and any cousins...

It has long been a custom among commentators that, when looking for a comparator that will blacken any reputation, cloak your own judgement in righteousness, and win all arguments,...

The findings of a recent survey commissioned by Ireland’s Iona Institute for Religion and Society have shed new light on attitudes there toward religion and the Catholic Church. The...

One hundred years ago today, W. B. Yeats, poet, senator of the Irish Free State, and proud member of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, rose to his feet on the...

The fictional Netflix drama series Adolescence is making TV ratings history in the U.K. Jamie Miller, a thirteen-year-old English boy, is arrested for stabbing a girl from his school...

Until 2023, the library at Trinity College in Dublin was named after George Berkeley, one of the great names of eighteenth-century philosophy. Berkeley studied and taught at Trinity. He...

I grew up in Ireland in the 1970s and eighties. The parents of my friends, neighbors, cousins, classmates, and so on, mostly had intact marriages; only a tiny number were separated or divorced.

The War Against the Past: Why The West Must Fight For Its Historyby frank furedipolity, 240 pages, $29.95 About halfway through Frank ­Furedi’s The War Against the Past, the...

Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching edited by dale ahlquist and michael warren davisrn sophia institute press, 240 pages, $21.95  How often do politicians talk about love of...

Neil Jordan is Ireland’s greatest and most successful film director. His 1992 movie The Crying Game was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, which Jordan won. Michael...

The people of Ireland have voted resoundingly not to remove the word “mother” from the Irish Constitution. This week, the results of a double referendum were announced. The first...

Ireland is holding a referendum on March 8—International Women’s Day—which, if the governing parties have their way, will mean the word “mother” is removed from Bunreacht na hÉireann, the...

It is sixty years since the posthumous publication of The Discarded Image by C. S. Lewis. (Its author had died in November 1963, on the same day as John...