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Joe Horgan

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Warmth and celebration in a winter of change

IT was not unusual for my father to work over Christmas. There were six of us and it was extra m...

25.12.2024 10

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The value of voting in an era of apathy

ONE of the peculiarities of the Irish electoral system is that you can see exactly how many peopl...

13.12.2024 3

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Growing up Irish in England

I SOMETIMES find it bizarre that even when I’m talking to my own kids about my Irish upbringing t...

15.11.2024 5

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Ireland united in theory but divided in practice

I MUST be missing something. I was listening recently to an interview with Lynn Boylan, the Sinn ...

27.10.2024 1

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Ireland’s rich harvest of literature

ACCORDING to the publicists every year since I’ve been here, and presumably well before that too,...

04.10.2024 1

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Language matters - so do lies

WHEN a candidate for possibly the most powerful position in the world, said person having once he...

18.09.2024 3

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Craic, not chauvinism – celebrating Irishness

ONE of the fine things about being Irish is that we are more than ready not to make a big fuss ab...

20.08.2024 3

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Beyond the past towards a shared future

IT IS one of those unavoidable things but quite often as Irish people we end up talking about Eng...

16.08.2024 3

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Joe Horgan

Craic, not chauvinism – celebrating Irishness

ONE of the fine things about being Irish is that we are more than ready not to make a big fuss ab...

13.08.2024 4

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Joe Horgan

Disappearing Ireland – is the digital one better?

MY FATHER never drove a car. He never sent an email. He never sent a text message. He certainly n...

09.08.2024 3

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Why dismissing democracy is dangerous

POLITICS is important. Those who dismiss it all with a ‘they’re all the same’ are doing one of tw...

20.07.2024 2

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