Patrick Claffey
Articles by Patrick Claffey
2019
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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…
2018
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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…
2016
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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…
2015
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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…