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This article originally appeared on RTÉ Brainstorm, on September 29th, 2017. Opinion: she may have made history as the first female nominee of a major US party, but Hillary Clinton… | Read on »

Tributes paid to Liam Cosgrave, the former leader of Fine Gael, 1965-77, and Taoiseach, 1973-77, have, following his death, stressed his sense of public service and his commitment to the… | Read on »

A political tragedy On Sunday October 1, 2017, many people across the world were shocked by the numerous images of the Spanish police and Guardias Civiles (but not the Catalan… | Read on »

The death of the playwright Sam Shepard represents a huge loss to American theatre. Some of his best work shows a gift for exposing patterns of connection and disconnection in… | Read on »

It has not gone unnoticed that the Trump administration features many Irish Americans. The Independent has catalogued some of them. I see two questions being raised by the article—first, what… | Read on »

At a recent speech to mark the opening of NUI Galway’s O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, President Michael D. Higgins warmly welcomed the new theatre, but he went… | Read on »

In the summer of 1745, Charles O’Conor of Belanagare (1710-1791), the Gaelic historian, scholar and prolific pamphleteer noted the imminent death of Dominic O’Duignan in his diary: Iun 5 1745:… | Read on »

As most of us struggle to achieve recognition in just one field, it is worth thinking about the circumstances and qualities that enabled Emily Anderson (1891-1962) to excel so widely…. | Read on »

Plastic marine litter has recently attracted public attention due to a regular flow of media releases. However, marine litter presents one aspect of a much larger problem. During a sabbatical… | Read on »

Sylvie Lannegrand has been a much valued colleague, and a wonderful friend to the student population, since she first appeared in the French Department in 1985, as a lectrice de… | Read on »