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Skelligs: of will and wilderness
Published in the Cork Independent online on 4th August 2012. A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to work for a couple of days on Skellig Michael off the coast of county Kerry. I was assisting a...
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Reading, nay, enduring Walden
Published in the Cork Independent online on 3rd October 2012 Reviewing a classic of literature is always risky business. In one sense it is easy for you are unlikely to cause offense to the author –...
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Seat Elixir
All a man needs is a seat out front of his house, and a sky that makes promises of tomorrow. Then he can want no more. He has freed himself from all spurious and academic thought, so that he may think...
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A modern Epicurus
This article first appeared in the Letters section of Philosophy Now, Issue 99, Nov/Dec 2013. [The following is a response to an article written by Brian Dougall, whose contention is that modern...
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The storm after the storm
A recent New Yorker cartoon summed it up perfectly. The first panel of the diptych showed how many people are outraged on the internet: a scene overflowing with faces. The second depicted how many...
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