It made for a bold headline when the Boston Globe published an…
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Some thoughts on Tuam
Introduction The controversy that has erupted over the Tuam mother and baby…
Leave morality out of lawmaking and you’re left with what?
At a recent debate on abortion in NUIG, a professor of Law…
Fatima: one hundred years on
This month sees the centenary of the first of the apparitions of…
Book review: Abbey Girls
The authors are both scientists. Valerie has a PhD from McGill and…
Film review: The Promise
The relatively little-known genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Turks…
Ireland’s historical amnesia
“Who controls the past controls the future” George Orwell wrote in Nineteen…
Death of a father of eighteen children
In the end it was brief – all too brief. Between diagnosis…
A post-modern heresy?
Ideas are curious things. They can drift inconsequentially through our minds, fleeting…