© Aguaplano Edizioni, 2018
Michael D. Higgins, President of the Republic of Ireland since 2011, represents a shining exception in the global political landscape and a radical alternative to the neo-liberal and neo-populist tendencies that dominate the contemporary debate. In these essays, presented as an absolute preview to the Italian and international public, Higgins evokes some twentieth-century Irish junctions - the role of women in the 1916 uprising, the Irish Citizen Army and its leader James Connolly, the figure of Eva Gore-Booth, relations between Ireland and Cuba - and articulates a unitary and coherent discourse on the social question, civil rights and women's emancipation, peace and international cooperation. With the sensitivity of the poet, the memory of the historian and the far-sightedness of the statesman, Higgins becomes the spokesperson for an existential testimony even before a political one, for a Europe called to rethink the future, its identity, the Other by itself.
Translated into: Italian
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