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John Duggan
The overwhelming rejection of the attempt to remove “mother” from the Irish constitution shows that barriers will occasionally fly up when liberalization encroaches. Continue Reading »
The proposed changes to the Irish constitution seem to be inviting Ireland to advance further into an era of cognitive dissonance about motherhood. Continue Reading »
The medieval outlook on life and the cosmos still has contributions for the modern age. Continue Reading »
There is an eerie precision to Paul Lynch’s portrayal in Prophet Song of what religion in an Ireland of the near future will be like—indeed, what it is already like. Continue Reading »
Kennedy, de Gaulle, and de Valera shared the experience of kneeling before Catholic altars, and this orientation made its way into their own visionary reachings. Continue Reading »
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is perhaps intended to be a signal directed at conservatives with political power that they now have an expectant, well-resourced, and high-status movement at their backs. Continue Reading »
This year’s biggest Electric Picnic controversy concerns a folk band called the Wolfe Tones, whose members have been writing and singing Irish rebel songs for decades. Continue Reading »
As a result of Catholicism's demise, are the Irish no longer governed by a firm, inherited sense of right and wrong? If the answer is “yes,” then Ireland cannot claim that it wasn’t warned. Continue Reading »
Recently, while reading Sally Rooney’s hugely acclaimed novels for the first time, I messaged a friend to say how bleak I was finding them. He replied that his impression of the books was different. In a way, we were both right. On the one hand, the novels have shafts of light and humor; . . . . Continue Reading »
There is one critical outcome that liberal individualism has completely failed to deliver and that is babies. Continue Reading »
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