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 …
“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 …
On the 18th April, 2017 the Irish Times published an article by Fintan O’ Toole, entitled “Brexit means Ireland must be the anti-England.” In common with his other musings on the subject, he refuses to view Brexit as in any way a legitimate act of rebellion. Instead he views it as something atavistic and …
On the 10th of April, 2017, an article by Niall O’Dowd was published in the Irish Times. It was titled “Irish America is facing an unnecessary death.” We have decided to highlight this article as it draws attention to certain contradictions in contemporary Irish discourse regarding the nature of who and what is Irish. What …