John Hearne: Architect of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland by Eugene Broderick (Irish Academic Press, €29.99) A study of all constitutions promulgated since the French Revolution in 1789, by the Chicago Law School, found that the average constitution lasted a mere 17 years, before it was replaced. By that measure, the Irish Constitution, which will be…
We must not allow the decision of English voters to destroy what Europeans have built over 70 years of patient statesmanship, writes John Bruton
The choice to use force in 1916 must be subjected to severe reappraisal, writes John Bruton The commentator, Greg Daly, concludes an article in last week’s edition of The Irish Catholic, on the 1916 Rebellion in Dublin, with the words: “The Rising may have been immoral and anti-democratic, but to suggest that Ireland would have…
Globalisation is not something that is done to us, it reflects our choices, writes John Bruton