By Colman Cassidy, Hibernia, 7 June 1979 Cavan County Surgeon, Mr. Boulos Hanna, cleared of culpable negligence in the care and treatment of his patients by a three-man team of eminent doctors, has as yet been given no firm indication of when he can return to work. Egyptian-born Hanna, now an Irish citizen, has…
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By Colman Cassidy, 18 July 1975 Peadar O’Donnell, by Grattan Freyer, Bucknell University Press Peadar O’Donnell:Irish Social Rebel by Michael McInerney, O’Brien Press These two books make a good introduction to the work of Peadar O’Donnell – novelist, schoolteacher, journalist, patriot and political agitator – which is not as well known as it should be….
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By Colman Cassidy Abstract This paper explores whether the ‘hermeneutic circle’ makes all understanding subjective. In framing an answer to this question, some of the salient features of hermeneutic theory are addressed. The first revolves around the definition of hermeneutics: its basic distinctive claim – what it postulates as the aim and method of understanding…
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By Colman Cassidy, Sunday Telegraph, 14 November 1982 The closure of the Sunday Tribune, the Republic of Ireland’s quality Sunday, just one week before its second birthday, is a salutary lesson in bad management. It has been brought down through the losses incurred by its sensationalist tabloid sister paper, the Daily News, which has shut…
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by Colman Cassidy A terrible beauty is stillborn in the rain, as alert, grim-faced, inward-looking men and not a few women stand outside the mortuary at Dublin airport – and wait. Talk is low and spasmodic. Everyone is occupied with his or her own interpretation of the Gibraltar killings. There’s an all-pervading sense of grief…
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