Tag: Burke
Europe’s Gallows: The Aphoristic Critique of Burke’s Heir
I pardon the contemporary reader for the aphoristic roughness that is about to follow: I claimno vainglory by it, only an urgent call that I think desperately needs to be heard. I. Ode to Europe – Panta Rhei Europe! Let...
Bashing the Burkes: Progressive Ireland Takes Aim
At the time of writing, Enoch Burke, a young teacher at Westmeath's Wilson's Hospital School, remains incarcerated in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison, where many a good Irish man has been locked up before in days gone by. Though Burke, being an...
Has Enoch Burke Jailing Scuppered Hate Speech Rollout
Rising to global notoriety overnight, prisoner Enoch Burke entered the state's custody this week following a refusal to comply with an injunction on teaching at the Westmeath school he works at. A teacher of German and History, Burke earned himself...
Sir Roger Scruton: In Memory
How should one treat the death of a public intellectual? Sir Roger Scruton recently left this veil of tears having succumbed to the sword of Damocles which hung upon him for six months prior. A man not without his fair...
Edmund Burke and the Irish Canon
“Berkeley proved that the world was a vision, and Burke that the State was a tree, no mechanism to be pulled in pieces and put up again, but an oak tree that had grown through centuries” -W.B. Yeats Burke and the 20th Century: The Irish 20th century left many casualties in its wake. As the century drew to...