John Duggan

While her characters may no longer be the direct inheritors of the deposit of faith, they at least remain the inheritors of the questions of faith. Continue Reading »

About halfway through Frank ­Furedi’s The War Against the Past, the reader is presented with a selection of words deemed unacceptable by the Local Government Association of England in its Inclusive Language Guide. The words include mum, dad, homeless, second . . . . Continue Reading »

Localism remains one of our last best hopes. Continue Reading »

Mid-century Ireland was so much more than the poor, priest-ridden, censorship-stifled, philistinic wasteland that Neil Jordan describes. Continue Reading »

The overwhelming rejection of the attempt to remove “mother” from the Irish constitution shows that barriers will occasionally fly up when liberalization encroaches. Continue Reading »

The proposed changes to the Irish constitution seem to be inviting Ireland to advance further into an era of cognitive dissonance about motherhood. Continue Reading »

The medieval outlook on life and the cosmos still has contributions for the modern age. Continue Reading »

There is an eerie precision to Paul Lynch’s portrayal in Prophet Song of what religion in an Ireland of the near future will be like—indeed, what it is already like. Continue Reading »

Kennedy, de Gaulle, and de Valera shared the experience of kneeling before Catholic altars, and this orientation made its way into their own visionary reachings. Continue Reading »

Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is perhaps intended to be a signal directed at conservatives with political power that they now have an expectant, well-resourced, and high-status movement at their backs. Continue Reading »