World Art / Culture

Our Gods and Theirs

Religious belief has the power to define, but also to divide peoples. While it can be seen as in some respects a retrogressive force, there…

World Literature

Let Them Have It

You’ve either got or you haven’t got style. AA Gill had it in spades, but he also had substance, convictions, passion and a devil-may-care attitude…

World Literature

Here I Stand

Martin Luther believed the papacy to be one of the great human agencies through which Satan operated on earth. This goes a long way to…

Irish Art / Culture

Working With What’s Left

Clearly Catholicism can never recover its former dominance in Ireland, a dominance which was itself an historical aberration. But if it is forced to live…