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Eavan Boland on women poets in Ireland

Boland’s critique of Irish poetry challenged the tradition of portraying women as passive symbols of Ireland rather than as subjects in their own right.

Gabriel Marcel on ‘What Can One Expect of Philosophy?’

For Marcel, philosophy begins in ordinary human experiences of love, death and birth, when we seek deeper answers to life’s mysteries.

‘The Housing Problem in Dublin’ – Lambert McKenna

McKenna’s 1919 critique of Dublin’s housing crisis sounds remarkably familiar: inadequate homes, high costs, congestion and poor public transport.

Francis Shaw and ‘The Canon of Irish History’

Francis Shaw’s “The Canon of Irish History: A Challenge” was published posthumously in Studies in Summer 1972. Written in 1966, it challenged the traditional nationalist interpretation of 1916.

Pearse and the ‘noble lie’ of nationalism – John Coakley

In this 1983 essay, ‘Patrick Pearse and the “Noble Lie” of Irish Nationalism’, John Coakley provides an overview of critical conceptions of the ‘nation’ as a lens through which to assess Pearse’s political philosophy and concept of the ‘Irish nation’.

Virginia Crawford on the rise of Italian Fascism

Eavan Boland on women poets in Ireland

Gabriel Marcel on ‘What Can One Expect of Philosophy?’

‘The Housing Problem in Dublin’ – Lambert McKenna

Francis Shaw and ‘The Canon of Irish History’

Pearse and the ‘noble lie’ of nationalism – John Coakley

Virginia Crawford on the rise of Italian Fascism

Two Months in Soviet Russia

The Rise of the Far Right

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