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I began my diary on the tenth of March 2020, and made the last entry on the sixteenth of September, intending from the beginning that my documentation of the pandemic… | Read on »

The article was originally published in the Business Post on August 9-10, 2020 under the title ‘In a time of so many secrets Hume took flak for them all’. We… | Read on »

The death of Bernard Bailyn on 7 August 2020 not only marked the passing of perhaps the most influential historian in the United States of the past seventy years, but… | Read on »

Are you Irish, or are you not? Unless you’re a migrant or the child of immigrants, the question is a simple one. For people of a migrant descent, the question… | Read on »

You never think it will happen to you, until it does. Leaders around the world, former colleagues, and friends have described him as Ireland’s ‘most significant and consequential political leader’… | Read on »

At the beginning of March when the pandemic was starting to spread, the Council of Europe warned that public health information about coronavirus was not being disseminated systematically by the… | Read on »

This blog is co-authored by Gavan Duffy and Gearóid Barry. New Zealand’s handling of the current Covid-19 pandemic has, to date, attracted much positive commentary, with a considerably better record… | Read on »

We called it Cannon Park. A triangular sliver of green separating the Court House lawn from High Street, it was just around the corner from our front door in Chestertown,… | Read on »

Americans have had to face an old question with new urgency: “How do we fix racism?” Among the solutions, some observers have focused on the challenge of changing “hearts and… | Read on »

Widespread protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis have generated new awareness of historically sanctioned racism that shapes the lives of people of colour in the USA and… | Read on »