The pandemic has brought the power and consolations of scholarship to the fore. But with a particularly grim Halloween upon us, M.?R. James¡¯ ghost stories warn us that the pursuit of knowledge does not always end well, writes Shane McCorristine
Shane McCorristine considers the illicit and sometimes horrifying ways teaching institutions used to secure corpses for trainee doctors to learn anatomy
The Royal College of Science for Ireland was a progressive experiment in technical education that ended abruptly in the messy wake of Irish independence. Shane McCorristine recounts a cautionary tale of how education and nationalist politics can come into conflict
