John Gray is former Librarian at the Linen Hall Library, a campaigner for Belfast Hills and a founding member of the Reclaim the Englightenment group which was founded in 2017 to resurrect the values and ideals of the enlightenment.
IT seems to many of us of all faiths or none that much of the argument about President Higgins’s attendance or non-attendance at the forthcoming ecumenical service to mark partition and the creation of Northern Ireland misses the main points.
NORTHERN Ireland will mark its centenary on May 3, 2021. This is perhaps the most difficult moment in what has been designated as ‘The Decade of Centenaries’.