THE RECONSTITUTION OF IRELAND

<p><strong>For more than four decades one Irish voice has spoken out consistently courageously and with piercing clarity against the intertwined power of Church and State in Ireland. </strong></p><p></p><p><em>The Reconstitution of Ireland</em> gathers those letters published in <em>The Irish Times</em> over 47 years tracing a nation's transformation from repression to modern enlightenment.</p><p></p><p>Through letters and memoir this book revisits the Ireland that silenced women and shamed the vulnerable that tolerated Mother-and-Baby homes Magdalene Laundries systemic abuse and moral hypocrisy and follows the country's long painful emergence into a liberal self-aware democracy.</p><p></p><p>Each letter captures a moment in Ireland's ongoing moral reckoning: the struggle for divorce abortion rights secular education and freedom of conscience. Alongside these are reflections on global issues from Barack Obama to Ukraine revealing a mind deeply engaged with the wider world.</p><p></p><p>Witty incisive and often prophetic <em>The Reconstitution of Ireland</em> is both a personal memoir and a living chronicle of a nation rethinking its soul and rebuilding it from within.</p><p></p><p></p>