


Neil Hegarty: 2031
Neil Hegarty surveys the events of a decade from the vantage point of the year 2031 – and observes a scene in which geopolitics, society, and Ireland itself are changed utterly.

On ‘Moral and Imaginative Quickening’
Denis Stewart suggest we apply Seamus Heaney’s ‘moral and imaginative quickening’ to the 21st Century.

may tyrants tremble: the life of william drennan
Fergus Whelan discusses his book ‘May Tyrants Tremble: The Life Of William Drennan (1754-1820)’

on irishness: a civic conversation
We were asked to consider what we considered to be ‘Irishness’.

our public love and secret chain for a politics of kindness
Philip Orr on 18th Century thinker Francis Hutcheson.

history and historians
The role of history and historians in dealing with the past after the Stormont House Agreement.
