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Peter Brooke
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Peter Brooke is a painter and writer, mainly on interactions between art, politics and religion. He has a PhD from Cambridge on ‘Controversies in Ulster Presbyterianism, 1790-1836’ (1980) and he is the author of the major study of the Cubist painter Albert Gleizes, titled Albert Gleizes, for and against the twentieth century (Yale University Press 2001).
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Nov 22, 2022 ∙ 25 min
A Note on the Controversy concerning Eric Gill
On 12 January 2022, there was an attempt to destroy, or at least damage, the statue of Prospero and Ariel installed outside the BBC’s...
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Jun 22, 2021 ∙ 20 min
John Hume: The Achievement and Limitations of a Man in War
I have not read all the tributes that have been made to John Hume since his death in 2020, but I doubt if many—perhaps any—of them have got to the heart of his real achievement, which was twofold. On the one hand, he prevented a settlement of Northern Ireland’s constitutional status that seemed to be a real possibility in the late seventies and early eighties on what might have been called ‘Unionist’ principles (though it could have resulted in the end, or radical decline, of ‘Unionism’ as a...
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