Dr John Wallace looks at the career of Academy Award-winner Greer Garson, star of Random Harvest, Mrs Miniver and the superb Goodbye Mr Chips. Irish actors are much sought-after in Hollywood these days. Stars like Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Brendan Gleeson and the recent Golden Globe-winning Colin Farrell and Gabriel Byrne are just [...]
Last year was a ‘once in a lifetime’ year. The developed world economy fell into recession in the second half of 2008 for the first time since the Second World War. As a result, all risk assets had one of their worst years on record. There has also been a dramatic change to inflation expectations. [...]
Berna Cox writes that children who, until now, have been reaping the benefits of their parents’ Celtic Tiger lifestyles will have to learn how to squirrel away some savings for a rainy day. Sometimes, when I indulge in a bit of navel-gazing and take to pondering life’s great questions, I think I’d like to be [...]
Dr John Wallace looks at one of the great cerebral heroes of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, a philosopher who had a deep attachment to both medicine and Ireland Philosophers are not expected to be heroic, but two certainly are. Socrates — who was forced to commit suicide by the state — was turned into [...]
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