Healing divisions Tue May 23 2023 - 00:12 A chara, – Your editorial “The Irish Times view on escaping from the shadow of conflict” (May 20th) on the Civil War offers a... read full story
"Arguably, the overweening temporal power of the Catholic church was enabled by the loss of prestige of political nationalism. It was easier to look to the church for the apparently unified ideal of Irishness that politics had failed to sustain."