In this article from 1998, Joseph Feeney SJ explores the origins and rise of Martin McDonagh, one of modern Ireland’s most successful playwrights. Joseph Feeney SJ was professor of English Literature at Saint Joseph’s University… Read the Article »Martin McDonagh: Dramatist of the West
In this article from 1948, Dr Richard Hayes provides a brief history of the deep religious, military, and educational links between Ireland and Spain, via the Camino de Santiago de Compostella. Richard Hayes was a… Read the Article »Ireland and the Camino de Santiago
In honour of the forthcoming end of his second and final Presidential term, this week’s archival blog features a number of poems by President Michael D. Higgins. First published in Studies in the Autumn of… Read the Article »Michael D. Higgins – A Selection of Poems
In this article from 1993, Brian P. Kennedy seeks the soul of art, placed within falsely constructed proximities by museums, and asks – in a world where exhibitions and art are commercialised to suit the… Read the Article »Art and the Sacred: Towards a Manifesto
In this article from 2002, which feels stiflingly, upsettingly pertinent to the Ireland of 2025, author Bryan Fanning addresses the ‘usefulness’ of racism in politicss and the re-codification of racism from being overtly race-based in… Read the Article »The Political Currency of Irish Racism
This week’s archival blog is again from the first volume of Studies, however this time it hails from the very first issue. While archival – first printed in 1912 – it has direct links to… Read the Article »The Modern Problem of Athenian Imperialism
In this article from 2018, Dr Celia G Kenny addresses the concept of protest through poetry and the poet’s ability to speak truth to power and act as a mirror to contemporary society. She focuses… Read the Article »Theology, Poetry, and Protest in Israel
In this article from the very first volume of Studies, author Daniel (D.J.) Finn, SJ, writes in defence of archaeology as a scientific discipline, against a public that perceived of it as something indulged in… Read the Article »On the Place of Archaeology
In this article from 1922, author Herbert Thurston provides a scathing rebuttal of Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology – in large part against her dubious use of sources; her… Read the Article »On Witchcraft
In 1928, Irish author and academic Violet Conolly published ‘Two Months in Soviet Russia’ between December 1928 and March 1929. Broad in scope, the author provided her first-hand experiences as she travelled from Reval (now… Read the Article »Soviet Russia Revisited