Commemorating what? And why?
My father joined the British army in January 1941 to escape unemployment in Dublin and see the world. They sent him to Omagh. On March 17th, 1941 he was deployed with his comrades on the streets of...
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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition was first published in Polish in 1959 by the Instytut Literacki in Paris under the title Rodzinna Europa. In early 1951, Czesław Miłosz, having previously...
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Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918, by Senia Pašeta, Cambridge University Press, 300 pp, £60, ISBN: 978-1107047747 Probably the most fluently articulate interviewee I have ever encountered was the...
View ArticleThe People’s Parties
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle, by Michael Booth, Jonathan Cape, 416 pp, £14.99, ISBN: 978-0224089623 Wherever you look, the Nordic countries top the lists, the...
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The English Bible: King James Version: The Old Testament and the New Testament and the Apocrypha: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Herbert Marks, Gerald Hammond and Austin Busch, Norton, 3848 pp....
View ArticleLiberal, but to a Degree
Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism, by Marc Mulholland, Oxford University Press, 416 pp, £37, ISBN: 978-0199653577 In Washington on November 6th, 2003,...
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Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant, by Eithne Luibhéid, University of Minnesota Press, 304 pp, $25.00, ISBN: 978-0816681006 In January 2002 a Nigerian woman appealed to the Irish High...
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The Cold War, or at least the First Cold War, is now long over. Curiously, it ended without a war. Afterwards, the US global hegemony that some predicted failed to materialise. As in other areas,...
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