The Ventotene Manifesto and the initial roots of the EU
Peter Fieldman
The European Union is facing its gravest crisis since the Common Market came into existence at the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Individual...
La Constitución y el estudio de las lenguas cooficiales en España
El Art.3º de la Constitución española dice que el castellano es la lengua oficial del Estado, que todos los españoles tienen el deber de...
Greece returns to polls
Peter Fieldman
This has been a tough year for Greece. In January, elections brought the radical left wing party Syriza to power for the first...
The Battle of Waterloo June 18, 1815
Peter Fieldman
Exactly two hundred years ago, during the winter of 1814 through to June 1815, Europe’s principal nations were locked in negotiations to determine...
V Conferencia de la Sociedad de Estudios de América Latina de Irlanda
La Asociación de Estudios de América Latina de Irlanda y los departamentos de Español, Portugués y América Latina así como el de Geografía de...
Is it the end of bipartisan politics in Spain?
On 24th May voters went to the polls in thirteen Autonomous regions and over eight thousand municipalities in Spain’s regional and municipal elections. ...
Pearse Hutchinson Inaugural Conference at Maynooth
Maynooth University Library is delighted to announce that the inaugural Annual Pearse Hutchinson Conference at Maynooth University will take place on Thursday 14 May...
Cuba’s future
Peter Fieldman Visiting Cuba before the demise of the current political regime was a longstanding dream of mine and it seems I made it...
A lingua galega como propia dos mundos verdadeiros (y 2)
“Galleira é Galicia na xerga gremial dos afiadores, o irónico e mundial barallete”, recuerda Luis Menéndez (periodista de la Televisión de Galicia) en su...
Santayana said it!
Jack Gaioni* Most of us are familiar with the expression: 'Those who cannot remember past history are condemned to repeat it'.
The same man...