Desmond Fennell obituary: An independent thinker and purveyor of ideas
Lecturer, columnist, author and commentator, Fennell was also a gifted linguist
Intellectual and commentator Desmond Fennell dies aged 92
President leads tributes to essayist, author, broadcaster and Irish language activist
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
Joe Humphreys: Rebranding socialism as humane and socially responsible capitalism
Irish socialist thinking has moved on very little since the foundation of the State
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
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
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
Obituary: Heaney ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’
His books sold and continue to sell in the tens of thousands, while hordes of ‘Heaneyboppers’ flocked to his readings
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