Ireland has a strange relationship with the word ‘republican’
Unthinkable: Ireland’s conception of republicanism is outside of the European norm
Is there an answer to ‘the ultimate meaning’ of life?
Unthinkable: Philosopher Patrick Masterson believes there is a ‘rational order’ to the universe whether or not God exists
Fintan O’Toole: Gangsters who call themselves the New IRA are calcified cliché
Sinn Féin no longer accepts the legitimacy of crypto-fascist ‘republicanism’, but it won’t disavow it either
The State of Us, Part 4: The ties that bind
Fintan O'Toole: A reimagined republic should define the new Irish identity
A shared-space solution to Ireland’s Brexit Border problem
A deal could allow free passage across the island with rules on entry and exit
Trump presidency a chance for American media to reassert itself
Responsible journalists prepare to cover an incoming regime with vindictive track record
Taoiseach admits the State failed to give arts attention it deserved
Enda Kenny says €48m cost of Easter Rising commemorations was money well spent
The centenary conversations: Ireland 100 years ago and today
Contributors to a conference on Irish identity and sovereignty discuss these concepts
Survivors of the emotional deep freeze – Maynooth’s class of ‘66 looks back
Students who gave up the seminary 50 years ago recall a suffocating atmosphere that infantilised seminarians, but also some rare acts of kindness and enlightenment
Details of Easter Rising national conference revealed
NUI Galway summit is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations
Unthinkable: Is philosophy having an existential crisis?
Irish governments have been slow to draw on philosophers, argues Joseph Mahon
Philip Pettit: The republican image of freedom offers a moral compass for our country
In order to enjoy democratic freedom, the people of a republic should share equally in imposing community standards on government
Fintan O’Toole: Publishing tax returns a good way to revive ideals of Rising
Confidentiality of tax returns is unquestionable only because it is unquestioned
Transferring power from politicians to ‘unelected agents’ can help democracy
Political philosopher Philip Pettit delivers counter-intuitive message at Garret FitzGerald summer school lecture
How can we be free from corporate domination?
Philosopher Philip Pettit warns that we are holding corporations ‘less effectively to their responsibilities than we hold individuals to theirs’
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
Unthinkable: Are freedom and equality inevitably in conflict?
In the cry for freedom, what exactly are people looking for?
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