PUBLISHED WORK

Essays in Dublin Review of Books are available online from its website, and links to them are provided from this page. Material published in Irish Pages and Studies is made available digitally on JSTOR within a few years of its print publication date. Irish Times material is available from its online archives. Articles published in RTE Brainstorm are available from the RTE Brainstorm website, with links to them from this site.

 

BOOK

Ethics for Social Care in Ireland: Philosophy & Practice (2nd. Ed. 2014; 1st. Ed. 2007, Gill & Macmillan (Now Gill Books)

ESSAYS

• ‘Stealing Fire from the gods – AI and the Evolution of Thought’ ABC Religion & Ethics website, 30/11/2023
• ‘The Helmsman: An Appreciation of Gerard McCarthy (1949-2022) by Manus Charleton and Chris Agee’ in Old Istanbul & Other Essays by Gerard McCarthy published by The Irish Pages Press 2023. First published in The Irish Times online 4/03/2022
• ‘ “Again War”: Leo Tolstoy and the Ethical Necessity of Pacifism’ ABC Religion and Ethics Website, 07/09/2022
• ‘Radiant Depth: transcendence and ethics in Rothko’s late series of paintings’, ABC Religion & Ethics website, 26/02/2021
• ‘The Struggle between Facts and Values around Covid -19’, RTE Brainstorm Website, 15/01/2021
• ‘Why Edvard Munch is a painter for this time of great anxiety’, RTE Brainstorm website, 25/09/2020
• ‘The Relevance of John Henry Newman’s Idea of Liberal Education’, RTE Brainstorm website, 11/10/2019
• ‘The Case for Defending liberal values’, RTE Brainstorm website, 28/06/2019
• ‘Remain or Leave: Is Brexit a case of emotions over reason?’, RTE Brainstorm website,     27/02/2019
• ‘What would Sartre have Made of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?’, RTE Brainstorm website, 19/12/2018
• ‘Meet the Replicants’, on consciousness and artificial intelligence, (2017) Dublin Review of Books Issue 94 November
• Heaney and the Moderns’ (2015) in After Heaney Irish Pages Vol. 9 No. 1
• ‘Ethical Depth’ (2014) on Seamus Heaney’s Poetry & Prose in Heaney Irish Pages Vol. 8 No. 2
• Do the Right Thing’ (2013) on Francis Hutcheson’s Ethics, Dublin Review of Books Issue 45 Nov 18
• From Landscape Road to Chauvet Cave – Memoir’ (2012) in Sexuality Irish Pages Vol. 6 No. 2
• ‘Abuse of Children in Institutional Care in 20th Century Ireland: An Analysis Using Fromm’s Psychology’ (2012), The Journal  of Social Work  Practice Vol. 26 No. 3
• ‘Music of Time in Remembrance of Things Past (2011) in Ireland in Crisis Irish Pages Vol. 6 No1
• ‘Educating for Values: Philosophy and Religion’ (2008), Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, Summer Vol. 97 No. 386 ‘educating ourselves’
• ‘Moral Evaluation of Cultural Differences’ (2007), European Journal of Social Education 12/13‘
• ‘John Moriarty’ (2007) in The Media Irish Pages Vol. 4 No. 1
• ‘Mysticism and Language in Merleau-Ponty’ (1975) Philosophical Studies (Vol.XXIV), The National University of Ireland

Book Review Essays

• ‘The voice in the Ear’ (2018) on Peter Strohm’s Conscience, A Very Short Introduction Dublin Review of Books Issue 101 June
• ‘The God in the I’ (2017) on Hermann Keyserling’s The Travel Diary of a Philosopher, Dublin Review of Books Issue 88, April
• ‘Philosophy on the Boulevard’ (2017) on Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Cafe, Dublin Review of Books Issue 85, Jan.
• Review of John Plender’s Capitalism Money, Morals and Markets, Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, Autumn  2016 Vol. 105 No.419, ‘Europe in Crisis’
• ‘Do Right Man’ (2016) the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative, ‘On the Importance of Ethics’, Dublin Review of Books Issue 78 May 2016
• ‘Deeper than God’ (2014) on Ronald Dworkin’s  Religion Without God, Dublin Review of Books Issue 61 Nov.
• ‘The Opening to Others’ (2013) on Richard Kearney’s Anatheism: Returning to God After God, Dublin Review of Books Issue 28 Jan. 28
• Review (2011) of Tony Judt’s Ill Fares the Land: An Analysis of our Present Discontents, Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, Summer Vol. 100 No. 398, how to reform Ireland
• ‘Mind and Mystery (2011) on Sam Harris’s The Moral Landscape: How Science can Determine Values  Dublin Review of Books No. 19 Winter
• ‘Shedding the Ego’ (2008) on John Moriarty’s second volume of autobiography What the Curlew Said Dublin Review of Books No. 8 Winter

UNPUBLISHED PRIZE ESSAYS

• “During the plague I came into my own” (Anthony Hecht). ‘Who or what benefited from Covid-19’, unpublished joint runner-up in the 2021 Hubert Butler Essay Prize
• ‘Where does a citizen of the world belong?’, unpublished joint runner-up in the 2019 Hubert Butler Essay Prize

CONTRIBUTION TO PHILOSOPY COLUMN

• “What would a ‘just war’ exit to the war in Ukraine look like?” Responses for Joe Humphreys’s Article, Irish Times 10/11/2022 in the series ‘Unthinkable: Great Ideas for now’
• ‘Have you a Duty to Care for Others?’ Responses for Joe Humphreys’s Article, Irish Times 13/06/2014 in the series ‘Unthinkable: Great Ideas for now’. Republished in Humphreys, Joe, Unthinkable: Great ideas for now (2015) Irish Times Books

Short Fiction

• ‘Last Things’ (2023) Irish Pages Vol 11, No 2 Love
• ‘Standing Stone’ (2014) Irish Pages Vol.8 No. 1 Inheritance
• ‘Late Arrival in Athens’ (2009) Irish Pages Vol. 5 No.1 Language and Languages
• ‘Confessions of an Old Man: George Moore and the Limitations of Narrative Identity’ (2007) Irish Pages Vol. 4 No. 1 The Media