Daniel Carey

I did not know Seamus Deane well when I asked him if he would be interested in examining my DPhil thesis in Oxford. This was the summer of 1992. I… | Read on »

This article originally appeared on RTÉ Brainstorm Opinion: the norm-busting, ludicrous, calculated, dangerous and inept president leaves behind a damaged country We can only hope that we have seen the… | Read on »

As a challenging semester and year draw to a close, we thought it would be nice end on a positive note and to ask everyone three questions. Here are the… | Read on »

Published: 26 May 2020 by Irish Humanities Alliance On March 18th, as Covid-19 spread across the United States, Donald Trump declared himself a “wartime president”. Like many of his fellow… | Read on »

This crisis is as much about society and politics as it is about virology, immunology and economics https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0421/1132824-why-we-need-more-than-just-scientists-to-document-the-pandemic/, posted 21 April 2020. Remarkable efforts have been made by a host of researchers… | Read on »

The university community and the Moore Institute mourn the passing of Tim Robinson at the age of 85, one of the finest writers on landscape in the last hundred years,… | Read on »

Daniel Defoe’s 1722 work of fiction about the Great Plague in London still has much to teach us as we struggle today, writes Daniel Carey Pandemics of the past have… | Read on »

Once the US sport of football consolidated its position as the national game (supplanting baseball), it assigned itself a distinctive role in the concluding game of the year – the… | Read on »

This article originally appeared on RTÉ Brainstorm Opinion: it’s instructive to look at the various speeches and articles by Johnson’s hero Churchill on Britain’s place in Europe Much has been… | Read on »

As the current Irish presidential election winds towards its conclusion, in what The Irish Times has declared a “non-contest”, Michael D. Higgins enjoys a commanding lead. Occasional skirmishes over his… | Read on »