Desmond Fennell was Ireland's finest modern intellectual. Luckily for dissidents, his body of work also lays out the essential intellectual project of modern Irish Nationalism.
A wonderful acerbic perceptive intellectual rooted in the land, people and language of Ireland but with a sophisticated knowledge of and experience in international culture. For me the definitive work on the Irish Nation (the indomitable Irishry of Years) and the parasitic Irish State, a rent seekers paradise is his work The State of the Nation.
He and people like independent economist the late great Ray Crotty and others all saw the imminent deluge of consumer capitalism.
A wonderful acerbic perceptive intellectual rooted in the land, people and language of Ireland but with a sophisticated knowledge of and experience in international culture. For me the definitive work on the Irish Nation (the indomitable Irishry of Years) and the parasitic Irish State, a rent seekers paradise is his work The State of the Nation.
He and people like independent economist the late great Ray Crotty and others all saw the imminent deluge of consumer capitalism.