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‘Ireland is led by fools’: an interview with John Waters
October 11, 2018
Catholic writer John Waters believes his country is blighted by mediocrity – but ‘a better day will dawn’
‘Ireland is led by fools’
October 11, 2018
John Waters’s career in Irish journalism lasted for more than 30 highly successful years before he quit what he thinks has become an “ideological cesspit”. Waters is now one of the country’s “last men standing” in defending the Catholic faith, though he is unsparing in his criticism of the Irish Church. His new book Give
The long read: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the monks of the west
September 29, 2018
The author could never shake off the allure of religion
Dashes, brackets, and Oxford commas
September 06, 2018
After scanning the contents page of this slim volume, I made my way directly to Chapter 17. The title of this chapter, “-ize or -ise”, had set my heart aflutter. What I found there, I knew, would make or break my reaction to Punctuation Without Tears. I am a staunch defender and user of the
The perils of hasty secularisation
August 23, 2018
Pope Francis could hardly be arriving at a more dramatic moment. In the aftermath of the abortion referendum, Ireland seems to be wholly set on the repudiation of its Catholic past. A country where the Church was once ubiquitous has set about reinventing itself as the apotheosis of a modern, secular, liberal state. To put
The case for shutting down public schools
August 23, 2018
Posh Boys by Robert Verkaik, Oneworld, 400pp, £16.99 In the first few pages of Posh Boys, Robert Verkaik manages, among other things, to give public schools a heavy dusting of Nazism-by-association (on the grounds that some of the German high command prematurely fantasised about sending their offspring to Eton); to populate them with people called
Rock stars who can’t leave the faith behind
August 16, 2018
“Pope Francis is a true rock star.” Who says? An actual rock star. Sting, formerly of the Police, attended a general audience recently and went on social media to report that Francis had “a genuine charisma that filled the room”. So far, so glib, perhaps. But why was Sting at the Vatican in the first
How the Church’s ‘harsh beauty’ shaped two rock stars
August 16, 2018
No matter how hard they try, Sting and 'the Boss' can't seem to leave the faith behind
The popes and American racism
August 02, 2018
Who Are You? What Is Your Name? is a work of controlled fury. It opens with an account of the chaos triggered by President Trump’s executive order restricting travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Then, rewinding all the way to the Declaration of Independence, Bartolo-Abela assiduously catalogues shameful injustices committed by the white ruling classes
A walk through the ‘side passages’ of religion
July 26, 2018
City of the Good by Michael Bell, Princeton, 360pp, £25 I like it when a book opens with an epiphany. Michael Bell, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin, is in the Sistine Chapel, looking upwards. Like all those around him, he is wonderstruck by The Last Judgment. But then he starts to make
Arts essay: A literary giant ill at ease in Catholic Ireland
July 12, 2018
Frank O’Connor was, as some would have it, Ireland’s master storyteller. Short stories of his, such as the tragic Guests of the Nation, are immovable objects in the national literary canon. In the introduction to a book of essays about the Corkonian in 1969, Harold MacMillan, former Prime Minister and chairman of the publishing house
How the world seeks its peace with death
July 12, 2018
From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty, Weidenfeld, 272pp, £15 At the outset of this book, subtitled “Travelling the World to Find the Good Death”, Caitlin Doughty quotes the psychiatrist Irvin D Yalom: “Adults who are racked with death anxiety are not odd birds who have contracted some exotic disease, but men and women whose
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