Category: VOLUME VII, No. 3

CRISIS AND ASCENT – THE DAYS OF THE 1990 TAXI BLOCKADE

NSZ-ZN: First of all, can you briefly describe what was your status in the government at the time? GYK: During the first two years of the administration I was Head of the Prime Ministerial Advisers Office, at the same time Chief Adviser on Foreign Affairs, answering directly to the Prime

AISLING IN HEAVEN

Aisling was a tourist guide working in the great house of Castletown, in Celbridge, arriving daily to her place of work on horseback. She lived in a cottage on the left side of the Liffey, where her mother kept horses and a llama. Aisling was a pretty girl but not

A RHINO REMEMBERED – ON THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF A SHIPWRECK

Is there anyone who has not heard of the terrible tempest on the Ligurian Sea which claimed the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley? In almost precisely the same place, near the mouth of Spezia Bay off the coast of Porto Venere, another storm had wrecked a vessel three centuries before

IMRE ÁMOS, PAINTER OF THE APOCALYPSE

The exhibition of Imre Ámos, Painter of the Apocalypse opened at the Gallery of the Hungarian Academy in Rome on 11 February 2016, under the anspices of the Balassi Institute of Budapest. The occasion inaugurated Hungary’s assumption of the rotating annual presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Culled

OUR AUTHORS

MICHEL ANFROL graduated from the faculty of law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po). He became member of the Rally of the French People (RPF) in 1950, where he endorsed the role of Secretary General of the party’s youth organisation between 1954 and1955. He is member of the