Richard Kearney, novelist, poet and well known Irish cultural critic, is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and Boston College, and the author and editor of books which include: Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers (1984); The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions (1984), Post Nationalist Ireland (1997) and Questioning Ethics (1998).

Recent articles

Radical changes in the Irish-British relationship over Northern Ireland augur a wider shift in the locus of nation-state sovereignty - from territory to peoples. Will this mean an end to the politics of identity, with both ethnic nationalism and multiculturalism giving way to an enriching hybridity? This core argument from the continent’s west carries the pungent flavour of Café Europa.