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The Philosiphy of Same sex marriage
State-recognised marriage evolves, and should embrace straight and gay – or perhaps be abolished. By Martin O’Reilly
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By Donncha O’ Connell. Academics exist professionally in universities and work within academic units, usually within one unit of primary affiliation like a Faculty, Department, School or Centre. Thus, after announcing that one is an academic, the reflexive, almost existentialist, response is: ‘What Department are you in?’ Immediately, one is defined by one’s departmental […]
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Loafing heroism.
The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry by Edward Clarke. Review by Frank Armstrong. Few of us can recite a poem in its entirety. Perhaps this no longer matters as even an infant can now find whatever it was on YouTube. Yet many of the outstanding technological advances humanity has made only seem to increase stress levels, […]
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Our top-heavy Arts Council
Too long under strategic review by administrators for any good it does
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How optimism lifted
Of babies, cadences and death
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Though theorists champion it as a model, Barcelona’s Las Agencias was a covered-up disaster
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Cowspiracy
Stop Feeding Your Cancer: One Doctor’s Journey Dr John Kelly Pentheum, 2014 $13.99 Review by Frank Armstrong A documentary called ‘Cowspiracy’ is currently doing the social-media rounds. In time it could have an influence comparable to Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ as the devastating impact of animal agriculture and fishing is laid bare. […]