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’