John Duggan

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 »

Joseph T. Stuart’s book holds out the promise of shedding light on the inner workings of a peerless mind. Christopher Dawson’s writings have been enormously important to me in understanding the civilization I inherited and grew up in, the part my homeland (Ireland) played in its construction, . . . . Continue Reading »

St. Patrick’s Day is a new kind of “Ireland Day,” and the celebrations reflect the spirit of the times. Continue Reading »

Catholic Ireland's battle against the de-Catholicizing of her Constitution is coming to an end.
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Recent essays and a Neumann Forum report on contemporary Ireland reveal liberalism does not sit well in the Emerald Isle.  Continue Reading »