For some reason, none of this seemed odd to me until I visited Seville and Cordoba, where buildings constructed for use by one faith were taken over by another when political power shifted.

Instead, its top Catholic edifice is located in another state (the U.K.). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patr...

In other places, a change of regime (such as independence) might have seen one of Dublin’s two cathedrals returned to its majority faith. But no.

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Does the Bank of Italy have Daniel O’Connell’s heart?

I had not realised that the Bank of Italy was involved.

Prospective buyers are drawn by the English language, a high quality of life, safety and convenient access to the rest of Europe, real-estate brokers say.

I took my life in my hands and went to see a musical performance at a building that used to be part of the railway network, but of course the trains no longer run there.

No convincing needed.

If you do view low IQ as something to do with genetics, isn’t it a challenge that such a low-IQ population can become so academically successful so quickly? It’s almost as if low or high IQ had little or nothing to do with genetics, and a lot to do with the resources devoted to education

As most people would acknowledge, it is no longer economically “backward.” Yes, there is quite a bit of tax avoidance and financial engineering going on, but Irish workers are in general pretty highly skilled and productive

Partly as a result of that work, the Irish education system was revamped, and became among the best in the world. Indeed, according to the OECD, the only countries with a larger share of the population having completed a university education are Canada, Luxembourg and Japan.

So Lynn moved on. As for my Dad, he was doing some work on how to improve what had been a truly awful education system that,until the mid-1960s, had only offered high school to the children of the middle classes, and a university education to a tiny elite