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. …
There are some things so obviously related that though they exist or occur a thousand miles apart, or a thousand years apart, the relationship is obvious. Then there are things that exist or occur right beside each other at exactly the same time with, quite bizarrely, no causative relation to each other at all. And …
“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 …