Oscar Wilde
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No G-Men – Frank McNally on the politics of English accents
- Opinion
- February 12, 2021, 18:45
Fans of the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey will know that he had a habit of finding himself in the vicinity of suspiciously dead bodies. A less(...)

To ‘er’ is human – Frank McNally on the scourge of rhotic imperialism
- Opinion
- February 5, 2021, 19:01
My recent comments on rhoticity – the rolling of Rs after vowels, as practised in Ireland and most of the US but not in posher parts of England – brou(...)

Jennifer O'Connell: Biden’s cabinet looks like America. The Dáil doesn’t look much like Ireland
- Opinion
- January 23, 2021, 01:18
Five decades after the sexual revolution, who would have predicted that the inauguration of a 78-year-old white man – someone whose chief promise is t(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Way pandemic has unfolded makes mockery of punishment and reward
- Opinion
- December 22, 2020, 01:00
There are two Christmas stories. One of them is religious, mythic, cosmological. It is about salvation. The other one is a kind of fantasy of justice.(...)

Breda O'Brien: Does charity perpetuate unjust systems?
- Opinion
- December 19, 2020, 01:00
Benefacts, a non-profit organisation founded to bring transparency to Ireland’s non-profit sector, issued a report this week which suggests that we Ir(...)

Letters from teenage WB Yeats and Tiffany diamonds: what’s coming up in auctions
- Fine Art & Antiques
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS Please note – as government health restrictions may change – do consult with auction rooms in advance of any in room sales. Most(...)

In a Word . . .
- Culture
- December 5, 2020, 00:30
Forgive me, all you philosophers out there, but really . . . what are you for? We are told that studying your varied offerings as to the meaning of li(...)

Trinity and Richard Dawkins: Better to debate ideas than to ban them
- Education
- November 10, 2020, 00:00
The decision some weeks ago by Trinity College Dublin’s Historical Society (the Hist) to “disinvite” prominent scientist Prof Richard Dawkins from a s(...)

Co-living development ‘will destroy’ North Great George’s Street
- Heritage
- October 10, 2020
Expanding a proposed co-living scheme in Dublin’s north inner city will “destroy the setting” of historic North Great George’s Street and set a “serio(...)

Zak Crawley’s maiden Test century puts England in early control of third Test
- Other Sports
- August 21, 2020, 20:06
Day 1 of 5: England 332-4 (Z Crawley 171no, J Buttler 87no) v Pakistan Zak Crawley’s maiden Test century came with the minimum of fuss. He had taken (...)