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In the depths of our pandemic winter, when almost everything else was closed, when the city itself felt shut, the Strand miraculously reopened. For the first time, it became a… | Read on »

The death of Donagh O’Donoghue last month has been greeted with sadness across our university – but there have also been many expressions of admiration and gratitude for him too…. | Read on »

“La grande illusion est […] de croire à la promesse d’une identité et d’une souveraineté solitaires plutôt que solidaires.” (Michel Barnier) Michel Barnier, La grande illusion: Journal secret du Brexit… | Read on »

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 »

Update: In a companion piece to this blog post Tony offers reflections on the impact of COVID-19, and discusses teaching, students, life and human nature. This video was produced by… | 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 »

TV coverage of the Covid-19 crisis sometimes makes it seem like it’s all about numbers and graphs. Every day we hear about infection rates and death tolls. But it’s really… | Read on »

‘The Second Coming’ is WB Yeats’s most quoted poem – and almost certainly the most widely quoted poem of the last hundred years. Its prediction of the savage birth of… | 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 »

In the continuing fallout from the ‘Golfgate’ affair, something of a ‘constitutional crisis’ has arisen in recent weeks following the revelation that Chief Justice Frank Clarke called on Mr. Justice… | Read on »