On the 19th August, 2017, The Irish Times published an article by Fintan O’Toole entitled The State of Us: Ireland’s story doesn’t make sense any more. The subheading: “Globalisation, migration and Catholicism’s decline have undermined stories of ourselves”. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/state-of-us-ireland-s-story-doesn-t-make-sense-any-more-1.3186301 In summary, he describes the various collective narratives which he feels have defined “modern Catholic” Ireland …
It seems clear now that Ireland has ceased to be a country and has become rather a poster child for every Liberal crackpot notion and intellectual fashion. Let three recent examples suffice. This week Leo Varadkar is on the cover of Time magazine, looking like the generic leader of…well, take your pick of any country. …
To many Irish people (innocents that they are) it may seem unthinkable that people who voted for Barack Obama would, several years later, vote for Donald Trump. This is not so much a comment on what Obama or Trump have amounted to, as what they seem or seemed to represent. The fact is that many …
Much credit to Declan Lynch for his brilliantly funny take down of Liberal journalists in the Irish Independent, entitled “Journalism is rediscovering its soul in these dark days”. Written in a dry satirical tone it evokes the bitterness and self-righteousness we have all come to expect from the Fourth Estate. Mocking his own trade, Lynch …
“The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons” – Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game The Black Hats and the White Hats On the 23rd of January 2017, an article by Emer O’ Toole appeared in the Irish Times. It was titled Make Ireland Great Again: ‘Our culture has been under threat since those dirty …
Liberalism is consuming modern Ireland. To consume is to be Liberal. To be Liberal is to consume. To believe that man is born free, and that everywhere he is in chains. This is to be Liberal. For it initiates a perspective, a morality, and eventually an entire infrastructure of human society, which places the …
One of the fascinations of Left-Liberalism, since the 1960s, has been the domain of popular culture. Liberal academics are endlessly fascinated by popular entertainment and their students attend lectures to be taught how to consume this material properly. They are taught to think critically about popular culture, which is to say, assess said culture for …