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 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 concise article from 1997, author Pamela M. Jones explores the transitional period in Italian art that took place place between 1590 – 1630 and the paths it crossed contemporaneously with the era of… Read the Article »Caravaggio and Early Modern Catholicism
In this article from 1913, author D.J. Finn (Daniel J. Finn, SJ) examines the true polychromatic nature of Greek sculpture throughout its different ages; and rails against the contemporary (then, and now) misassociation of ‘pure’… Read the Article »The Greeks and Painted Sculpture
One of Ireland’s most-lauded poets, Derek Mahon’s work dealt often with themes of displacement and alienation, cultural decay, and the environment. In this article from 2018, James McElroy analyses the dismissal within Irish critical practice… Read the Article »Eco-Criticism and the Poetry of Derek Mahon
In this Studies article from 1960, author Neil Hurley delves into what he considers the ‘social philosophy’ of renowned Golden Age actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. Discussing Chaplin’s impoverished beginnings, Hurley projects the lifelong impact… Read the Article »Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Social Philosophy’
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
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
Renowned Irish academic Maurice Harmon, for many years professor of Anglo-Irish literature at UCD, was a frequent contributor to Studies about contemporary Irish poetry and died last October. The below extract is from an article… Read the Article »Thomas Kinsella as a nature poet