In remembrance of Professor Tom Garvin MRIA – political scientist, UCD Professor, and frequent contributor to Studies – who sadly passed away last month, we are publishing extracts from two of his past articles; the… Read the Article »Tom Garvin on National Identity in Ireland
In this 2015 article, Bryan Fanning details the origins of modern government approaches to ‘dealing with’ the Travelling community, and how the community has been represented across different eras of the Irish state. The extract… Read the Article »Travellers and the Irish State
In the light of the results of the recent U.S. election, it seems appropriate to publish an extract from a recent edition of Studies, Spring 2024. The extract below is taken from “The Rise of… Read the Article »The Rise of the Far Right
‘Two Months in Soviet Russia’ was penned in 1928 by Irish author and academic Violet Conolly, and published across two volumes of Studies in December 1928 and March 1929. A follow-up penned by Conolly nearly… Read the Article »Two Months in Soviet Russia
Joseph Veale (1921-2022) was a Jesuit Priest and teacher whose work, at its heart, emphasised the practice of education and expression over the strictures of more ‘limiting’ educational tools such as examinations. Considered to be… Read the Article »Catholic education and ‘Christian responsibility’
Written one year after Mussolini’s March on Rome, and published four months after the Corfu Incident, Virginia M. Crawford’s ‘The Rise of Fascism and What It Stands For’ is a contemporary analysis of the political… Read the Article »Virginia Crawford on the rise of Italian Fascism
In this 1983 essay, ‘Patrick Pearse and the “Noble Lie” of Irish Nationalism’, John Coakley provides an overview of critical conceptions of the ‘nation’ as a lens through which to assess Pearse’s political philosophy and… Read the Article »Pearse and the ‘noble lie’ of nationalism – John Coakley
Born in 1870 in Dublin, Lambert McKenna was a Jesuit and Catholic social thinker. Beyond his work on the Irish language and bardic poetry, his scholarly interests also focused on labour issues and contemporary current… Read the Article »‘The Housing Problem in Dublin’ – Lambert McKenna
The summer 1972 issue of Studies published a lengthy and highly controversial article attacking Padraig Pearse as a destructive ideologue who had perverted the Christian message, especially in relation to sacrifice and redemption, to make… Read the Article »Francis Shaw and ‘The Canon of Irish History’
In March of 1959, French author and philosopher Gabriel Marcel gave a paper to the Pax Romana Society of University College, Dublin where he explored what humanity could – and should – expect both of… Read the Article »Gabriel Marcel on ‘What Can One Expect of Philosophy?’