Irish Philosophy

Inspired by this article on Politico which invites Europe to celebrate America’s birthday on 28th June, here is a post celebrating the ideals of the American Revolution.

The people of Longford are proud of Maria Edgeworth, so could not fail to notice that in the latest series of Bridgerton, when Eloise (a great reader) asks the new maid Sophie what she is currently reading, Sophie says she is reading Miss Edgeworth’s Prac…

Today is the 250th anniversary of Daniel O’Connell’s birth (see here for a post by RTE marking the anniversary and summarising his achievements) I have written before of his philosophical influences, which are more liberal and utilitarian than the traditi…

While reading this Gismodo article (“Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries”), I suddenly had a flash of insight: the true inventor of the Large Language Model was Jonathan Swift.

Peter Grey on Bluesky, March 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM I was just thinking it’s about time the Clontarf Proclamation was rescinded More than 3,300 obsolete laws from 19th century set to be repealed (Irish Times link) Every set of legislation contains some dead…

Today, President Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods came into force, with Canadian retaliatory tariffs coming online at the same time.

Thomas Drennan, teacher at Francis Hutcheson’s school and father of William Drennan of the United Irishmen, died on St Valentine’s day, 1768.1 I have written about him previously, but for the day that is in it, this brief blog will describe how he met his…

These two subjects may seem to have no relevance to each other.

Iris Murdoch died twenty-five years ago today, on 8th February 1999.

Fáilte!