Brother Kevin Crowley: The Capuchin Who Fed What the State Refused to House
An assessment of Brother Kevin Crowley's fifty-six-year career at the Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street, Dublin: what the work documented, what the State funded, …
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Sister Stanislaus Kennedy: Forty Years of the Right Argument, and the State That Refused to Hear It
An assessment of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy's forty-year argument for housing as a right, the institutions she built where the State did not, and what her …
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Lynn Ruane: The Tallaght Senator Who Wrote the Bill the State Wouldn't
An independent Senator whose work on drug policy is grounded in fifteen years of community-services experience and in lived knowledge of the communities the State's …
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John Sweeney: The Maynooth Geographer Who Translated the IPCC for Ireland
Five decades of Irish climate science. The IPCC AR4 work that produced the 2007 Nobel. The long, patient argument that Ireland keeps saying it will …
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Pádraic Fogarty: The Irish Ecologist Who Names the Capture
An ecologist who has spent two decades documenting Ireland's biodiversity collapse and naming the political-economy that produced it. The 2023 IWT resignation made the diagnosis …
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Economist Who Fought the Eurogroup, and the Theorist Who Says Capitalism Is Already Dead
The economist who fought the Eurogroup as Greek finance minister and now argues capitalism has been replaced by technofeudalism. Why both claims matter for Ireland.
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Mark Manson: Practical Philosophy for People Who Don't Read Philosophy
The blog-era self-help author who turned out to be the most useful Stoic translator working in English. Why the work matters more than its cover …
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George Monbiot: The Journalist Who Connected Land, Capital, and Climate
Forty years of the same long argument: land, capital, and climate as a single connected story. Why the analysis transfers to Irish farming, housing, and …
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Sir Roger Penrose: The Mathematician Who Insists Consciousness Is Real
The Nobel-laureate mathematical physicist whose work refuses to dissolve consciousness as a problem. Why his insistence matters even where his specific proposals are contested.
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Iain McGilchrist: The Master and the Emissary, and What Modern Culture Got Out of Order
The neuroscientist-philosopher whose Master and Emissary frame names what is wrong with the modern institutional-managerial style, and what Irish culture still has.
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Alex O'Connor: The Young Philosopher Who Listens
The young Oxford-trained public philosopher whose dialogic method matters more than his conclusions, and what it suggests for Irish post-Catholic ethical conversation.
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Andrej Karpathy: The Most Useful Teacher of How AI Actually Works
The clearest public teacher of how modern AI works. Why his Software 2.0 framing matters, and why his pedagogical model is a template Ireland needs …
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