The Irish Times

Desmond Fennell obituary: An independent thinker and purveyor of ideas

Lecturer, columnist, author and commentator, Fennell was also a gifted linguist

Sat Jul 24 2021 - 16:08

Intellectual and commentator Desmond Fennell dies aged 92

President leads tributes to essayist, author, broadcaster and Irish language activist

Sun Jul 18 2021 - 18:50

August 6th, 1945: The day ‘western civilisation’ came to an end

Unthinkable: We’re at a point in history ‘between two civilisations’, argues Desmond Fennell

Tue Oct 02 2018 - 05:00

Joe Humphreys: Rebranding socialism as humane and socially responsible capitalism

Irish socialist thinking has moved on very little since the foundation of the State

Mon Jul 11 2016 - 10:28

Unthinkable: Is the media just an arm of the market?

‘The single greatest tragedy in Ireland today is the absence of a free press,’ says Marcus deBrun

Wed Apr 01 2015 - 10:45

Oireachtas Irish language festival returns to Connemara

‘Gaeltacht brio’ of first event recalled

Fri Sept 26 2014 - 01:00

Is the Irish media devoid of intellectual depth?

‘We need to see that there are different ways of looking at the world to that served to us by the mass media, which is necessarily pretty banal,’ argues Desmond Fennell

Fri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00

A childhood Christmas

Desmond Fennell recalls his innocent wonder at the ‘real, the true, the venerable’ Santa, the mysterious ‘Arabian Nights’ glitter of the Belvue tram and the comforting magic of a twilight stroll through the suburbs of Belfast

Wed Dec 25 2013 - 01:00