Terry Eagleton
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The critical role of mirth and laughter in a time of plague
- Opinion
- August 18, 2020, 01:00
The book of Ecclesiastes tells us there is “a time to weep, and a time to laugh”. The strict dichotomy between weeping and laughter that this implies (...)

David Brooks: ‘Comments are so much more vicious than even 10 years ago’
- Culture
- April 17, 2019, 06:30
You can tell the sort of guy David Brooks is from his Twitter feed. A polite comment about women’s sport being better to watch than men’s is condemned(...)

Catholic church: ‘Good Riddance or Good Influence?’
- Religion & Beliefs
- June 16, 2016, 13:46
Whether the Catholic Church has any role in an increasingly pluralist Ireland will be discussed at a three-day international conference in Trinity Col(...)

Successful publisher and left-wing campaigner
- People
- December 12, 2015, 10:17
Neil Middleton, who has died aged 83, was an influential publisher, writer and Catholic thinker who made a significant contribution to religious and p(...)

Seán Moncrieff: ‘Irish people don’t deal with failure that well’
- People
- October 2, 2015, 06:00
‘The Irish are endlessly fascinated by themselves,” said Terry Eagleton. I first read this quote in The Irish Paradox by Seán Moncrieff, a book abo(...)

Review: Wuthering Heights
- Stage
- November 20, 2014, 01:00
Wuthering Heights Gate Theatre *** It is a classic dilemma. Can you indulge the passion of those unbridled years, when a rough (...)

Billy Collins: ‘When I start a poem, I assume the indifference of readers’
- Books
- August 11, 2014, 01:00
‘The idea of a popular poet is a bit of an oxymoron in people’s minds,” says Billy Collins, the luminary lyricist and former American poet laureate(...)

Passing the time at Enniskillen’s Happy Days festival
- Stage
- August 4, 2014, 16:00
‘We’ve been waiting for someone to come, but nobody has turned up.” Were it not for the bright disposition of the speaker, a museum attendant, a visit(...)

Samuel Beckett’s old school ties
- Stage
- June 28, 2014, 01:00
There are three events that Sean Doran recalls, over the course of a varied international career as an artistic director, when he thought he had fi(...)

Chalktalk: News and views in education
- Education
- March 18, 2014, 00:00
Open up Whatever happened to openness and transparency? Minister for Education Ruairí Qu(...)