Rethinking the West and Islam

December 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

This column first appeared in the 3 December 2006 edition of the Sunday Tribune.
Richard Delevan
Remember the book, “How the Irish Saved Civilisation”, by Thomas Cahill? It did the rounds in the 90s, marking the intellectual high water mark of that decade’s tsunami of sentiment about Ireland fed by the peace process, Seamus Heaney, Mary Robinson, [...]

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Islam, the West and the Irish Saving Civilisation

December 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Sunday Tribune column from 3 December 2006. Please send your hatemail and explosive devices to the office rather than my home. Cheers.
REMEMBER the book How the Irish Saved Civilisation, by Thomas Cahill? It did the rounds in the 1990s, marking the intellectual high-water mark of that decade’s tsunami of sentiment about Ireland, fed by the [...]

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