The Croppy Boy

Further to two recent posts, one about Steven Pinker's view that the Enlightenment is the source of science, reason and progress, and a...

On the recent controversy over the Fine Gael government's plans to commemorate the RIC, and the subsequent decision to cancel those pla...

In a previous post, I spoke about the political and how it relates at its purest to the distinction between friends and enemies. That is bec...

Last week I wrote about how a certain moral bankruptcy permeated Dan O'Brien's recent commentary on Brexit and the backstop. ...

Dan O'Brien and the late Conor Cruise O'Brien. A rather random association you might think. Where did that come out of? There...

Fintan O'Toole has a lot to say about Brexit. One of the big assertions he makes is that Brexit represents "English Nationalism...

Speaking in the context of Britishness, former leader of the Ulster Unionists, Mike Nesbitt, says he does not believe it is helpful to t...

In a previous post, I suggested that the designation of the enemy in Ireland's politics had changed fundamentally. Rather than seeing o...

In his essay, the Concept of the Political , Carl Schmitt defined the political as that part of discourse concerned with the distinction be...

In response to comments by the Bishop of Ephin around artificial contraception, Health minister Simon Harris had this to say : Please jus...