As we reach the end of the first full week of the new year, and as we’ve been making resolutions for good changes in our lives – we present an extract from Dr Corinna Ricasoli’s… Read the Article »Memento Mori and the ‘Good Death’ in Baroque Art
In this extract from his 1951 article, author J. J. W. Murphy (CSsR) provides an historical background to early Irish involvement in peacekeeping efforts in Palestine; specifically during the years immediately preceding the formal establishment… Read the Article »Irishmen in Palestine: 1946-48
Mary Guckian, ‘December Lights in Pearse Street’, Studies: An Irish Review, Vol. 98, No. 392 (Winter, 2009), 378. JSTOR link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25660700 – December Lights in Pearse Street Damp air hangs Over Pearse Street On a… Read the Article »Mary Guckian – December Lights in Pearse Street
In this review-cum-historical-account from the Summer 2015 edition of Studies, Tom Mooney discusses the background to the European premier of Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night at the Wexford Festival Opera, alongside a history of Wexford’s… Read the Article »“Silent Night” – Wexford, Opera, and the First World War
In his article ‘The Irish Economic Prospect’, Patrick Lynch MRIA presents a comprehensive overview of the issues that faced the Irish economy as it stood in 1955. Many we are familiar with from our own… Read the Article »Patrick Lynch on the Irish Economic Prospect
In this lengthy article published in the Spring of 1959, future-Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald outlines the government debates regarding the Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1958, which sought to change Ireland’s electoral system from Proportional… Read the Article »Garret FitzGerald on the Irish Electoral System
In remembrance of Professor Tom Garvin MRIA we present the second of two of his past Studies articles, ‘Republicanism and Democracy in Ireland’. First published in the summer of 2013 – in the context of… Read the Article »Tom Garvin: Republicanism and Irish Democracy
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