Heaven Can Wait

Whatever You Say

No news: letters from John McGahern, who didn’t like writing letters

After the Deluge

People’s inability during the pandemic to behave morally and refrain from actions that threaten the common good has meant that in protecting the public states…

Mistaking Identity

We are inclined to think of social identities as traits that are common to all members of a group, that a person cannot help acting…

The Rock in Rough Weather

Those who still see a future for Irish Catholicism argue that in a materialist and individualistic age it can minister to ‘a deep spiritual hunger’.…

Christian Knowledge

There are many factors that made the Irish state that came into being in 1922 different from other nation states, not least that it was…

How to be a Dub

Is it sufficient to have been born in the capital to be a true Dub? What if your parents and grandparents were born there too,…

Just Make Do

With the slow death of God and religion, and the unsatisfactory nature of philosophy or what postmodernists call grand narratives, the beauty and pleasure of…

Getting and Spending

For centuries the climate dictated the way we made our living, the way we lived our lives. We are an indoor people. For centuries we…

Sucked Into The Tube