John Duggan

This year’s biggest Electric Picnic controversy concerns a folk band called the Wolfe Tones, whose members have been writing and singing Irish rebel songs for decades. Continue Reading »

As a result of Catholicism's demise, are the Irish no longer governed by a firm, inherited sense of right and wrong? If the answer is “yes,” then Ireland cannot claim that it wasn’t warned. Continue Reading »

Recently, while reading Sally Rooney’s hugely acclaimed novels for the first time, I messaged a friend to say how bleak I was finding them. He replied that his impression of the books was different. In a way, we were both right. On the one hand, the novels have shafts of light and humor; . . . . Continue Reading »

There is one critical outcome that liberal individualism has completely failed to deliver and that is babies. Continue Reading »

Joseph T. Stuart’s book holds out the promise of shedding light on the inner workings of a peerless mind. Christopher Dawson’s writings have been enormously important to me in understanding the civilization I inherited and grew up in, the part my homeland (Ireland) played in its construction, . . . . Continue Reading »

St. Patrick’s Day is a new kind of “Ireland Day,” and the celebrations reflect the spirit of the times. Continue Reading »

Catholic Ireland's battle against the de-Catholicizing of her Constitution is coming to an end.
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Recent essays and a Neumann Forum report on contemporary Ireland reveal liberalism does not sit well in the Emerald Isle.  Continue Reading »

With the referendums on marriage and abortion comfortably won, with gender self-ID written into law, where next for a country that has staked its new identity on a maximalist adoption of liberalism? Continue Reading »

Not very long ago, an eminent British editor tweeted an article from his own publication showing (he said) that “in the Middle Ages, some 100,000 women over Europe were burned, hanged, drowned, or put to death in other ingenious ways on suspicion of being witches.” “Three centuries of . . . . Continue Reading »