Category: Journalism

• Are reports of the EU’s death exaggerated?

  

  In The Guardian, I review John R. Gillingham’s new book, The EU: An Obituary.

  May 26, 2016

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• Should we give historical amnesia a chance?

  

  I review David Rieff’s provocative new book on historical memory, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory & its Ironies, in The Irish Times.

  April 30, 2016

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• Europe from Charlemagne to UKIP

  

  In The Guardian, I review of Peter H. Wilson’s new history of The Holy Roman Empire

   

  April 2, 2016

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• Election ignoring emigration

  

  In The Irish Times, I argue that emigration is being ignored in the current Irish general election campaign.

  February 19, 2016

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• Bringing emigrants home is about more than hashtags & tax-breaks

  

  At the Ireland’s Edge conference during the Other Voices festival in Dingle, I participated in discussions about Irish emigration, and wrote this piece for The Irish Times.

  December 12, 2015

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• What might bring young emigrants home?

  In The Irish Times, I argue that Irish debates about emigration are ignoring facts in favour of stereotypes.

  September 12, 2015

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