THE former attorney general John Rogers, SC, is right. It is now necessary for the people to drive home, well in advance of the next general election, their demand for “a commitment by the parties to true reform of the Oireachtas”.
IN a rights-conscious age where movements like feminism have made us all conscious of equality issues, it is easy to forget how recent are the gains made against hereditary privilege, elitism and the class-ridden structures flowing from the divine rights of kings.
EXACTLY 11 years after the birth control pill was officially approved in the USA, 47 members of the newly-formed Irish Women’s Liberation Movement travelled by train to Belfast.
IN the summer of 1787, a group of 55 men gathered in Independence Hall in Philadelphia for a convention that was to produce what is widely regarded as the first modern constitution.
‘‘PUT the Pope in the dock.” These words are not mine, but they will be seen as shocking and even grotesque by many Catholics of my generation. How could things come to this?
MARLI Renfro is a footnote in the history of Hollywood, or at least was, until recently.
WRITTEN in 1875 by WE Henley, Invictus is very much a poem about defiance and stoicism.