We might wonder sometimes if that most woke of the woke, Hollywood,…
Category: In Passing (page 6)
Colonisation – a lazy stereotype? Michael Kirke
“A crew of pirates are driven by a storm, they know not…
Starving in frigid isolation
About four years ago, a twenty-six year old Irish writer – now…
Does history repeat itself?
Does history repeat itself? Yes, but it’s complicated. Sometimes its repetitions are…
The clock of history is five minutes to Darkness at Noon
When you read a column in The Sunday Times (London) which introduces…
Escaping the Bunker
The world before Christ – and indeed for centuries after Christ –…
On the ironies of history
The ironies of history are manifold. They can intrigue us as much…
Words, word, words
Many years ago a responsible figure in the world of Irish education…
Roads taken and roads not taken
Oscar Wilde came to the sacraments of the Catholic Faith late in…