Pascal, Blaise. Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets. Paris: Desprez and Desessartz, 1715. [Harrison Collection]
Seán Ó Ríordáin read widely in European literature and here highlights segments from the Pensées concerned with the imagination (‘samhlaíocht’) in particular.
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Trans. A.J. Krailsheimer. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966. [Ó Ríordáin Collection]
Daniel Corkery became a major figure in the nationalist cultural revival that followed the War of Independence. In 1924, he published The Hidden Ireland, a study of Gaelic poetry in eighteenth-century Munster. His evocation fo the cultural loss of Gaelic Ireland, and insistence on the importance of the Irish-language sources to an understanding of its culture, account for seminal influence (on Ó Tuama, for instance) and often contested reception. He was Professor of English from 1931-1947. In his introduction to this volume, Eliot cites Maritain’s ‘brilliant criticism of the errors of Descartes from a theological point of view’. (DIB; ONDB)
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Trans. W.F. Trotter and introd. T.S. Eliot. London: Dent, 1943. [Corkery Collection]
Descartes, Rene. Meditationes de prima philosophia: in quibus Dei existentia, et animae humanae à corpore distinctio, demonstrantur; his adjunctae sunt variae objectiones doctorum virorum in istas de Deo et anima demonstrationes, cum responsionibus auctoris. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1678. [St Fin Barre's Cathedral Collection]
Maritain, Jacques. Three Reformers: Luther — Descartes — Rousseau. London: Sheed and Ward, 1944. [Corkery Collection]
