"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain.
The James Joyce Award is an award given by the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) of University College Dublin (UCD) for those who have achieved outstanding success in their given field. It is named after one of the society's alumni, James Joyce.
Nothing at all to do with Trinity.
They obviously invited him because they know he'll get a crowd, but still I'm a big believer in the benefits of free speech and public debate, so I think it's good to give these people a platform, especially one where their views will be challenged, as it's the only way to show them up for being the bull************************ that they are and even so that we can ensure ourselves that they bull************************.
It's one of the great strengths of this site as well.
"Give us the future, we've had enough of YOUR past, Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in and to love..."
It's no use banning and censoring people like this. Peacefully protest yes but you can't deny people free speech and the right to be heard. To censor people is to infantilize the citizenry and say they can't make up their own minds. Censorship also hands them a credible argument i.e my ''right to free speech was denied'''and therefore will get them more supporters even by accident, supporters who could otherwise hear the guy speak and be sickened into opposing what he stands for.
"You can't expect to wield supreme excecutive power 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you"
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