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The newest volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Ireland series: South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan
The South Ulster volume of the Buildings of Ireland covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh, an area stretching from the thinly populated uplands around the Cuilcagh Mountains and the cradle of the Shannon to the fertile Blackwater Valley and the southern shores of Lough Neagh. The architecture of the region is as … Read more
Democracy in Retreat: Joshua Kurlantzick paints a picture of global decline.
Though we may be uncertain of when or how it will come about, there exists a common assumption amongst Western leaders that democracy will eventually triumph worldwide. It is an idea which has dominated Western political discourse since the end of the Cold War and one which continues to dictate foreign policy, particularly in the United … Read more
The Philosopher’s Stone
If you could turn your aluminium Coca-Cola can into gold, would you? You probably would, but if everybody could do it, it wouldn’t be quite so amazing since gold would become common and not worth much. The old Greek myth of King Midas, who was granted his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold, reminds us that he … Read more
Arthur Danto on What Art Is
Arthur Danto, the influential art critic and a professor emeritus of aesthetics and history at Columbia University, once famously declared the End of Art. ‘In our narrative, at first only mimesis [imitation] was art, then several things were art but each tried to extinguish its competitors, and then, finally, it became apparent that there were no … Read more
Ginkgo: A Few Amazing Facts
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo … Read more
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