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5 Things You Can Do To Honour International Women’s Day
Thursday, March 8th, 2012International Women’s Day is at once a problematic and worthy idea; Shoe-horning half the world’s population into a day on the UN’s calendar, along with other hard-pressed categories like migratory birds (14-15 May) and world intellectual property (26th of April) should make you more than a little uneasy, as should the fact that more than [...]
Ireland’s Lisbon trauma continues… with no end in sight
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008The recent state visit to Ireland by Czech President Vaclav Klaus constituted a remarkable deviation from European diplomatic norms when the irascible old Thatcherite cocked a snoop at Brian Cowen’s government by placing the Lisbon Treaty at the centre of his visit, and in the process, created a predictable media storm. In breaking just about [...]
It’s in the blood. The Citizenship referendum in Ireland
Tuesday, June 1st, 2004The 1916 Proclamation declared that, 'The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, … cherishing all of the children of the nation equally'. This was further upheld in the Constitution, which declared all citizens equal before the law. So who are the citizens of Ireland? According to [...]
Cyprus – A recent history.
Saturday, May 1st, 2004((Editor’s note: This article was written, before the referendum, and before May 1st – as such it deals with the history of Cyprus, rather than the current developments. Three Monkeys Online intends to publish a further article on the politics of current day Cyprus) The referendum on the reunification plan for Cyprus held on the [...]
The Multi-Culturalist. William Dalrymple in interview with Three Monkeys Online Magazine.
Saturday, May 1st, 2004William Dalrymple is a hard man to pin down, as befits an award winning travel/history writer who has written about the Middle East, Asia and in particular India. A couple of tentative interview arrangements are scuppered through travel plans – but when we finally manage to get hold of him, the conversation is well worth [...]
Make it official? The Gaelic language in Europe.
Thursday, April 1st, 2004Imagine the reaction if a taxi firm in France was refused a licence to operate for using the French translation of the word 'Taxi' on its cars. Imagine being prevented from using one's own language in one's own country to practice one's business! Unfortunately this incident did happen. It did not happen in France however. [...]
