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One Hundred Years of Dáil Éireann 1918–2018: Elections, Personalities and Issues
Anthony White
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleAnthony White writes of the centenary of Dail Eireann, examining the profiles of Irish TDs over one hundred years of uninterrupted parliamentary democracy.
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Ornithic Joyce- An Egregiously Preliminary Round of Avian Observations
James McElroy
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleRonald Bates published an article entitled ‘The Correspondence of Birds to Things of the Intellect’ in the James Joyce Quarterly of Summer 1965. In his article Bates identified a species of ‘ornithic’ guise that he claimed to be a common trait in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Parish Pastoral Councils and Community
Séamus Lillis
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleViewing Parish Pastoral Councils (PPCs) as community organisations delivers helpful insights into their supplementary relevance to the Catholic Church in Ireland.
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Partition- Are there two nations on the Island of Ireland, and could they be Fused into One?
John Bruton
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThere are increasingly loud calls to prepare for a border poll, one outcome of which might be the unification of Ireland, the end of partition, and the end of UK sovereignty over Northern Ireland. These calls rely on the provision in the Belfast Agreement of 1998 that says that, if the British secretary of state is of the opinion that a majority in Northern Ireland would support unification with the rest of Ireland, he or she shall hold a poll in Northern Ireland to allow the electorate there to make that choice.
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Patrick Reel- A Life in Paint
John O’Hagan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI first met Patrick Reel around fifteen years ago. Initially I was drawn to the quaintness of and the atmosphere in the shop, house, studio, and gallery. In time we were delighted to become regular visitors to Ludlow St to meet Patrick and his sister Esther, and we became familiar with his wonderful life of artwork, the subject matter of a current retrospective exhibition of Reel’s work in the State Apartment Galleries in Dublin Castle.
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PeopleTalk: Promoting Conversation about Democracy
Edmond Grace SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePeopleTalk: Promoting Conversation about Democracy
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Peter Sutherland and the European Project
Paul Gallagher SC
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI am perhaps unusual among Peter Sutherland’s friends in that I only had the pleasure of knowing him for the last nine years of his life. Like many others, I was left with a profound sense of loss on his passing. His friendship was generous, kind and great fun. There was also a sense of Ireland’s great loss.
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Peter Sutherland: A Jesuit Boy
Noel Barber SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI am writing on Peter Sutherland as a ‘Jesuit boy’ not to insinuate that his place in history is due to his old school and the religious order that founded it. It is rather to describe, as best I can, the environment in which he developed his admiration of and loyalty to Gonzaga College and the Jesuits, and the consequences of the ‘Jesuit influence’.
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Philosophers of the Intimate in a Time of Confinement: Iris Murdoch and Martha Nussbaum
Ruth Murphy
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleBut if we do leap ahead of what we know we still have to try to catch up. Will cannot run very far ahead of knowledge, and attention is our daily bread.
Covid-19 has not been ‘the great leveller’ that some had imagined.2 Over a year on, all data clearly show that social injustice has been amplified by the consequences of the pandemic.
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Poem: Christ and Humour
Desmond Egan
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€7.00 Purchase Single Articleyour anger erupted at times
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Policy and Partnership
Maire Céline Clegg IBVM
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleEducational policy choices made at any given time can tell us a great deal about the role of the state within a particular society and its attitude to diversity within a contemporary culture.
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Political Theology- Three trials – Antigone, Socrates, Jesus
Paul Corcoran
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleA traveling circus in Denmark had caught fire [in front of a numerous public]. The manager thereupon sent the clown, who was already dressed and made-up for the performance, into the neighboring village to fetch help. … The clown hurried into the village and requested the inhabitants to come as quickly as possible to the blazing circus and help to put the fire out. But the villagers took the clown’s shouts simply for an excellent piece of advertising, meant to attract as many people as possible to the performance; they applauded the clown and laughed till they cried.
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