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Episode #23: Seamus Deane on the Right to Have Rights

Hannah Arendt coined the phrase ‘the right to have rights’ in her 1958 book The Human Condition. In this lecture, literary critic Seamus Deane links Arendt’s phrase with the Irish immigration system, in particular the ‘Direct Provision’ centres. Since the first half of the the twentieth century, the condition of being stateless, of being a […]

Episode #21: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – “A Terrible State o’ Chassis”

We are seeing Ireland north and south being sold to corporate powers Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is Ireland’s finest political orator, and a key figure in recent political history. In this lecture she takes as her theme a line from playwright Sean O’Casey, ‘A Terrible State o’ Chassis’, where chassis means ‘crisis’. While still a student […]

Episode #07 Seamus Deane on the conservatism of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke lived from 1729 to 1797, a period of great expansion of the British Empire and of revolutions in America and France. More a working politician than a systematic philosopher, Burke responded to the turmoil of his times by formulating a unique brand of political conservatism that has been interpreted in many ways down […]

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Episode #23: Seamus Deane on the Right to Have Rights

Episode #21: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – “A Terrible State o’ Chassis”

Episode #07 Seamus Deane on the conservatism of Edmund Burke

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