“A crew of pirates are driven by a storm, they know not…
Category: In Passing (page 6)
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…
Miles Davis and the God Question
Miles Davis’ So What? is one of the most famous and intriguing pieces of…