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		<title>Thank you, and good-bye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Shona proverb I cite most often is chisingapere chinoshura. It’s often used to console those enduring hardship, or to help people maintain a sense of perspective at the end of some venture. Sadly, the time has come for me to speak that proverb over myself and this blog.
Outside In has been going for almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/05/23/thank-you-and-good-bye/</link>
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		<title>Gladwell and Minister Harney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like Malcolm Gladwell. I had the privilege of listening to him speak when UCD hosted the writer a little over a year ago. On that occasion, he even kindly answered a question I put before him as he signed my copy of Outliers. Days later, while reading the book, I remember disagreeing with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/28/gladwell-and-minister-harney/</link>
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		<title>Solzhenitsyn, Mbeki, X-factor and the rest of us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Even the most broad minded of us,” writes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago, “can embrace only that part of the truth into which our own snout has blundered.
”In the same chapter, Solzhenitsyn describes magnificently how as an army officer, as a member of a privileged group, he was incapable of understanding the perspectives of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/26/solzhenitsyn-mbeki-x-factor-and-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<title>On global migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The topic that seems to generate the most response on this blog is immigration. That makes sense, I suppose. There aren’t too many fora out there that facilitate a back and forth between those who are concerned about the consequences of immigration (imagined and real), and immigrants themselves, or those who view immigration in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/21/on-global-migration/</link>
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		<title>A thought</title>
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The plume of ash from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier in Iceland. The eruption resulted in flights being cancelled across Ireland and Britain. Aircraft may remain ground for a number of days. Photograph: AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson.
When I first heard that volcanic ash had grounded most of Europe’s air travel, I wasn’t bothered very much. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/20/a-thought-21/</link>
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		<title>A final word on race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Race is a difficult subject. It is one of those things that members of polite society avoid like the plague. I can understand why. It’s a minefield and too often people have been accused racism when only guilty of indelicacy.
All of that, I understand. And I empathise with those who are frustrated by the fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/13/a-final-word-on-race/</link>
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		<title>I still don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I still don’t get it. I understand despondency in a completely dysfunctional system; in a place where deep down, people don’t believe that things can change. Ireland seems to me to be an incredibly democratic place &#8211; perhaps too democratic. It’s so democratic that given a conflict between ‘the right thing to do’, and ‘the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/09/i-still-dont-get-it/</link>
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		<title>Please help me to understand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been trying to make sense of it, but I can’t. How is it that people here are able to remain so calm?
A major newspaper, the largest by circulation in the country, in fact, can print an article with the title Africa is giving nothing to anyone &#8211; apart from Aids, and while a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/04/06/please-help-me-to-understand/</link>
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		<title>Fundamentalists and Pragmatists</title>
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Delegates watch Green Party leader John Gormley&#8217;s speech on TV by candlelight to mark Earth Hour. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill.
In a fascinating episode of Tonight with Vincent Browne, the Green Party, specifically Minister Ciarán Cuffe, were taken to task for what Browne sees as ethically dubious political behaviour. I seem to keep bringing up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/03/29/fundamentalists-and-pragmatists/</link>
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		<title>Sources of the Self &#8211; Chpt 8</title>
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This was another interesting read. I was most struck by Taylor’s suggestion that Descartes’ philosophical innovation led to a change in the social organisation of that time. I heard quite a few academics question whether what they do really makes a difference in the long run. The same question applies to musicians, filmmakers, writers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/outsidein/2010/03/25/sources-of-the-self-chpt-8/</link>
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