When it was put to him that those with intimate knowledge of the republican movement - former prisoners like McKearney and other dissident republican intellectuals - were convinced the IRA offer signalled the end of the war, the MP said: 'I'm sorry, who are they?
A shrine rescued from anarchist looting during the civil war, where Catalan intellectuals barricaded themselves away from Franco's police and Jordi Pujol's political party Convergència was founded.
I'd had enough of childish, angry, disenfranchised academic passivity – and still resent the utter failure of public intellectuals to resist and critique the laughably short Browne review the moment it drew breath.
Even intellectuals like the author Alaa al-Aswany, once a leading voice of the 2011 uprising, have expressed strong support for the new regime.
Pearson is undoubtedly the outstanding, and now most lauded, orator of his generation of public intellectuals (witness his Whitlam eulogy and the rather bizarre rendition of it on Monday's Q&A).
El Watan, the Algerian daily newspaper, noted that during the 1990s, at the height the Algerian civil war between the government and Islamist terrorists, journalists and intellectuals were the first to be targeted by the Islamists who saw free speech as the privilege of a Frenchified and ungodly elite.
With his friend and fellow poet Théophile Gautier, Baudelaire was a founder member of the Club des Hachichins – an elite group of intellectuals and spiritual adventurers (the club also included the painter Eugène Delacroix and the poet Gérard de Nerval).
She liked the company of intellectuals, enjoyed the debate, but she thought of herself more as a woman of action.
See, if you knew anything about creativity, you'd know that ambient noise stimulates the brain, that's why intellectuals have always gone to cafes to discuss ideas.
Hence the intense, proud and enthusiastic process of Europeanisation on which Spanish society, its politicians, businesses, intellectuals and unions embarked, first in 1978 with the adoption of the constitution, and then from 1986 with the formalisation of European accession.
The university came under sustained criticism from novelists, poets, academics and intellectuals over the cancellation of the symposium, which was due to be held on the campus in June.
