Volume 19 Archives - Page 45 of 45

President Ulysses S. Grant’s Irish tour, 1879

On 23 May 1877 the US State Department informed all its consular officials that former president Ulysses S. Grant had departed Philadelphia on 17 May for Liverpool. Grant, a Civil War hero, had spent two terms (1869–77) in office and presided over one of the most corrupt administrations in US history. After leaving the White … Read more

The Celtic Twilight and the Celtic Tiger

This is not the first time, argues Bill Kissane, that an economic crisis in Ireland has been seen as a crisis of the political system, nor the first time that Irish people have had to consider how democracy can be organised under conditions of global capitalism. As Ireland goes through its ‘second crisis of liberalism’, … Read more