How should we describe the extraordinary consensus that existed in this country — a consensus that united us all around core concepts like ‘free markets’, ‘competition is the only way’, ‘private enterprise good, public enterprise bad’, ‘social partnership’, ‘entrepreneurship’, ‘greed is good’, ‘conspicuous consumption’? For a long time we lived inside a bubble. The walls [...]
Being the one-man band behind Irish Writers Online, I get a lot of requests for links, and of course I do my best, but being as human as the next, I find that courtesy goes a long way. Muiris Ó Meara wrote me the following email, and I’m quoting in in full because I appreciate [...]
Between OS problems, service provider problems, wireless problems, paypal problems, domain problems, general sociability and the cultural life in central Dublin, there hasn’t been much time for my own work. The technical problems and solutions will probably find their way into Ubuntu Learner when I get a minute, and as I don’t expect you to [...]
This is the 150th Anniversary of the birth of George Bernard Shaw. See the Wikipedia entry on Shaw