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Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh The book is replete with convincing examples of the necessary radical change through new movements, outside the walls, or through coalitions of the committed, breaking down walls.

John O’Hagan || That first lecture in 1970, and the first edition of the book in 1975, seem like only yesterday, as the body of students you see in lectures has not changed in terms of age and socioeconomic mix, except for the greatly increased and very welcome numbers of visiting and full degree non-Irish students.

David Clare || A remarkably large proportion of England’s greatest musical artists from the mid-twentieth century onwards have been of Irish descent. Such as Paul McCartney and John Lennon, Dusty Springfield, John Lydon, Kate Bush, Boy George, Morrissey and Oasis.

Peadar Kirby || The return of Donald Trump, re-elected by a comfortable majority, has shocked many liberal and progressive observers around the world. It is perhaps the most decisive event yet to show that we have entered a new era in world affairs.

Patrick Riordan || President Trump’s executive order commanding the suspension of all USAID’s support for projects in poor countries shocked many. When Vice President J. D. Vance attempted to justify these policies by specifically citing the notion of the order of charity, ordo amoris, the reaction of many Christians was understandably one of horror.

Dermot Roantree || In all the time from 1776 to the Kennedy administration, for example, there were just six Catholics on the Supreme Court; right now there are six Catholics serving on the Supreme Court at the same time – six out of a total of nine. Then, more than one third of Trump’s second-term cabinet are Catholic.

Fiachra Long || We live at a time in the Western world when the moral values of free speech and universal care have been inverted by a strange form of oligarchic-speak and even stranger forms of economics designed to favour the rich and the strong. This ‘might is right’ idea is not new. Nor is there any compelling evidence to show that it works in the long term as a political ideal.

Paschal Donohoe || Today, the European Union remains in essence one of the world’s most successful peace and reconciliation projects, symbolised by the EU being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. The founding community of six countries has since grown into a union of twenty-seven. Ireland joined in 1973.