“History is written by the winners” is a trite adage which was…
Category: In Passing (page 8)
In Passing: The Day the Music Died
Civilisations do not crumble in a moment, in an hour, or because…
In Passing: Mad dogs and Englishmen
Noel Coward’s famous song, Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the…
In Passing: The Great Divide
The world seems to be irreconcilably divided into two diametrically opposed realms…
In Passing: Destructive deception masquerading as truth
There is careless and sloppy journalism and there is cold calculated malicious…
In Passing: Out of the crucible of unimaginable sorrow
The lives of saints, even the lives of great but ordinary people,…
In Passing: “Rise and Grind”: on the pathology of work
I read a book many years ago entitled On the Theology of…
In Passing: Network still gives us a sobering message for our time
“I’m mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore!” Paddy Chayefsky…
In Passing: Psalm II
We have effectively disenfranchised 33% of the population from Irish politics,” Dr…