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John Moriarty and the Rhizome
John Moriarty In considering environmental ecologies – independent, perhaps, of humans – John Moriarty uses the concept of the rhizome, to make a point, about the rootedness (or otherwise) of things....
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The Idea of Ireland
As the annual St Patrick’s festival draws to a close, a global celebration of Irishness fostered by the two-headed monster of the Irish Diplomatic corps and the Tourist Board, the DUP in the North is...
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The Mysticism and Ecological Sensibility of John Moriarty
John Moriarty, the Irish philosopher and mystic, was as detached from the physical world as a philosopher can be. He chose to live remotely; that is, outside of the city, though he had travelled some...
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The Drama of Revolution
How revolutionary are revolutions? Are they accelerated historical developments? Or are they merely dramatic and shocking moments that somehow capture a moment, and lend themselves to compelling...
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Resurgent, or Synthetic Romanticism
There has long been a persistent tension, a binary opposition in my thinking, between romanticism and enlightenment, faith and reason, spirituality and science. It was first awoken in my in depth...
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The Legitimacy of Institutions and Political Decay
It could be said that Ireland has had four phases of development: the first as the country emerged from its fledgling days of independence and civil war before the Second World War; the second one of...
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Changing the World
Salvador Allende, a man who tried to change the world. In considering diagnosis and prescription when it comes to political order, the imperative is in some sense to do something. As Karl Marx said in...
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There Is No Market For Happiness
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008/9, many commentators argued that the old neoliberal consensus had finally been dealt a hammer blow. If 9/11 had been a wakeup call for the West...
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Cause, Effect, History, Truth
Forty years ago, Apple changed the world when they launched the Macintosh computer, with a superbowl ad echoing Orwell’s 1984. So the story goes anyway. Reading that (really very good!) piece from...
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Being Conservative
The Brits are having another Oxbridge-style debate about keeping nicotine away from children, with Sunak on the one side arguing that there’s nothing ‘unconservative’ about protecting children, while...
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