Liberals

2 July 2010 0 Comments

Liberal Society Debate, 29/06/2010

Irish Times, 30th June 2010
DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN Political Correspondent, and KEN MURRAY
SEANAD ÉIREANN needs radical reform, former tánaiste and minister for justice Michael McDowell said last night, admitting he was “wrong” to call for its abolition in the past.
In a speech to the Liberal Society in Bewleys Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin last night, Mr McDowell [...]

19 May 2010 0 Comments

Childhood

The new boy went off brushing the dust from his clothes, sobbing, snuffling, and occasionally looking back and shaking his head and threatening what he would do to Tom the “next time he caught him out

19 May 2010 0 Comments

Childhood

Jim was only human–this attraction was too much for him. He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound. In another mome

19 May 2010 1 Comment

Mockery of Religion

Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl–a sort of glorying over Tom which
was wellnigh unbearable. But Sid’s fingers slipped and the bowl dr

19 May 2010 1 Comment

Mississippi River

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it–namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is

19 May 2010 1 Comment

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

19 May 2010 0 Comments

The Hypocrisy of Civilized Society

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

19 May 2010 0 Comments

Conflict between civilization and natural life

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

19 May 2010 0 Comments

Mississippi River

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

19 May 2010 0 Comments

Intellectual and Moral Education

Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl–a sort of glorying over Tom which
was wellnigh unbearable. But Sid’s fingers slipped and the bowl dr