Journalism
Ireland (The Wall Street Journal)
In a speech last year to a group of Irish exporters, Dermot Desmond began with a quote
from Mao Tse-tung: ‘The people and the people alone are the motivating force in the
making of world history’. An odd choice for a man known for free wheeling
in the free market. (more...)
Ireland (The Wall Street Journal)
A cow pasture turned airport is unlikely ground for a bitter battle on national economic
strategy. But for the Irish government, Shannon International Airport has become a
nettlesome issue indeed. (more....)
Colour
Dublin (Business Week)
‘While I was lecturing in Denver, I received a message that if I went on to Leadville, as I
proposed to do, the harsher spirits of that wild mining town would shoot either me
or my travelling manager. (more....)
Istanbul (Business Week)
I am in a cheap hotel in the teeming Aksaray district of Istanbul. The lobby is crowed
with Romanians waiting for the dawn bus that will take them home with
their myriad purchases wrapped in plastic. (more...)
Special Supplements (writing as Anna van Hise)
Turkey (Time Magazine)
The chairman of one of Turkey’s largest companies tells of approaching a US tire company
for a licensing agreement in the 1970s. They said ‘Sabanci it is not simple. Tires are
very important. Big companies produce tires. Don’t do it.’ (more..)
Gibraltar (The Wall Street Journal )
For centuries the rock of Gibraltar served as a symbolic outpost of the United Kingdom.
Fifteen years after the British Ministry of Defense began to reduce its presence there,
the rock is on a roll. (more...).
Travel
Inis Meainn (The Financial Times)
“I think” said the young man on crutches as he leaned over his Guinness, you’ll be heading
for the wrong island. Inis Mor has five pubs, Inis Meainn probably only has one. (more...)
Venice (iQ Magazine)
It is midnight in Venice. The canals run quicksilver and black. A couple strolls under an arcade,
golden in the light of a shop window. (more...)
