Why we’re here

In April 1986 in the downstairs lounge of the Stag’s Head Bar in Dublin, Graph was launched. It was a time of record unemployment, high emigration, widespread political self-censorship in the media, particularly in relation to Northern Ireland, and mounting despair about a society whose ambitions and perspectives were dispiritingly narrow. The purpose of the … Continue reading →

Educate that you may be free?

   Michael Cronin on religion and critical thinking in post-boom Ireland  If you happened to find yourself in Prague on St. Patrick’s Day 1977 and you went looking for flowers you might eventually ask yourself the following question. Why were all the florists closed? The answer was one man, the philosopher, Jan Patočka, alone responsible … Continue reading →