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4 giorni fa · Photographer and author James Fraher shares beautiful, intimate moments of traditional Irish musicians: Eileen Ivers, the Mathews family, + more.
6 giorni fa · Nine Irish athletes are in action today, including Rhasidat Adeleke's first appearance at the Games. Here's the running order for the Irish athletes competing throughout the day and updates on how they fared...
2 giorni fa · Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized the use of reason to advance understanding of the universe and to improve the human condition. The goals of the Enlightenment were knowledge, freedom, and happiness.
- Historians place the Enlightenment in Europe (with a strong emphasis on France) during the late 17th and the 18th centuries, or, more comprehensive...
- The roots of the Enlightenment can be found in the humanism of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on the study of Classical literature. The Protest...
- Some of the most important writers of the Enlightenment were the Philosophes of France, especially Voltaire and the political philosopher Montesqui...
- It was thought during the Enlightenment that human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to imp...
- The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract...
4 giorni fa · Every once in a lifetime or so comes an opportunity to reflect on truly historic news which affects all Irish Americans of whatever class or creed. The peace agreement signed in Northern Ireland on Good Friday after much burning of the midnight oil by all the parties concerned qualifies for the term “historic” and has been ...
3 giorni fa · Read on for an exploration of the Age of Enlightenment, and the impact this period and its thinkers had on art and music! Between the mid-1600s and early 1800s, a shift in thinking took place in Europe which came to be known as the Enlightenment.
3 giorni fa · Enlightenment - Reason, Religion, Philosophy: The method of reason was applied to religion, and the product was Deism. The Enlightenment also produced the first modern secularized theories of psychology and ethics.
4 giorni fa · A DANGEROUS driver who caused the death of an Irishman in a hit-and-run incident has been jailed. David Breen, 26, was cycling home after playing football when he was struck by a car driven by Terry Varndell in Chichester, West Sussex in October 2021.
