The Welsh experiment in nationalist utopianism…. Continue reading
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Responsibility in Revolutionary Times: the case of Thomas MacDonagh
‘Dear boy, you’ll be shot’, Edward Martyn’s comment was sadly prophetic as MacDonagh left his last business meeting with colleagues in the Irish Theatre. Continue reading
Miniatures from the hand of a ‘Descendancy’ Nationalist
Hubert Butler’s essays have an elegiac quality: he mourns a class he thinks might have enriched the nation by building more robust debates around topics like religion and class… Continue reading
Éamonn Ceannt
Ceannt came to his nationalism slowly, mostly via his interest in the Irish language and Irish music. Continue reading
Poetry
they came to this place, made treaties and nature
swearing to die as they did for desperate causes Continue reading
Utopia – home of the human spirit
The story of a quilt which articulates the dreams of Utopians wherever they manifest for a place where there is no rich or poor, no master or slave, where all are equal, and where access to land, healthcare and education is the basis for a society that knows not want and misery…. Continue reading
The Famine Rock Commemoration 2014
I found the common reaction was one of a deep and sincere appreciation of the civility and gravity of the prevailing atmosphere of this gathering. Continue reading
James Fintan Lalor comes to Eureka
this old motto means in today’s language, demanding social justice for everybody in our community. Continue reading
Disintegrating Socialist Utopia
A FEATURE by Frances Devlin-Glass Two years ago just before Easter, I was preparing a paper on Joseph Furphy’s articles for the Bulletin for a very special mobile conference to ‘God’s Own Riverina’ (Furphy’s euphoric name for the area between the Murray and the Lachlan Rivers where he was running bullock teams to remote stations, just … Continue reading
Roger Casement in the 16 Lives series
Angus Mitchell lives and works as an historian in Ireland; he was born in Africa and educated in England, and from 1992-98, he lived and worked in Brazil. What better credentials to write authoritatively about the internal milieu of Casement’s professional career? Continue reading
