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‘I Feel Bould at All Times’: Irishness in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s St Patrick’s Day and Pizarro
David Clare
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleRichard Brinsley Sheridan’s most perceptive biographers have observed that, although Sheridan left his native Ireland shortly before his eighth birthday, never to return, he remained conscious and proud of his Irishness ‘to a degree that [was] … utterly baffling even to some of those closest to him’ for the rest of his life.
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‘Ireland is the True Subject for the Irish’: Yeats’s Early Nationalist Overstatement
Dylan Thursfield
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleYeats’ declaration that ‘Ireland is the true subject for the Irish’ is extremely bold, limiting ‘Irish’ literature to an almost singular concern. But what does Yeats mean by this alarming statement? – and does it stand up to scrutiny?
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‘New’ Ireland and Pope Francis
Andrew McMahon
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€3.00 Purchase Single Article‘While Pope Francis expressed contrition for the crimes committed by the
clergy, the consensus is that he did not go far enough in terms of outlining the
steps he intends to take to ensure that abuse is eradicated from the church’.
These words were central to an editorial which appeared in the Irish edition
of The Sunday Times on Sunday, 2 September.
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‘Nobody Will Ever Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (1)
Brendan Walsh
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis article seeks to review the contribution of teaching religious (sisters, priests and brothers) to schooling in Ireland between the 1940s and late 1970s, and principally employs the oral testimony of those who were taught by, and later taught with or as, members of religious congregations.
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‘Returning to Normalcy?’: The United States Now
David Holloway
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€3.00 Purchase Single Article‘Returning to normalcy’ is a phrase one hears a lot in the United States today. That is understandable, given the continuing, surging Covid-19 pandemic.
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‘The English Language Belongs to Us?’
Brian Cosgrove
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt was hardly headline-grabbing news, but some of us found a certain interest in the report, late in 2019, that the society or group dedicated to preserving the apostrophe had decided to abandon their efforts.
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1916: The Honour and the Folly
Edmond Grace SJ
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn Ken Burns’s recent documentary series The Vietnam War, one of the interviewees, John Musgrave, describes the first time he saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.
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A Changed Approach to Diplomacy: The Department of Foreign Affairs Then and Now
Gearóid Ó Clérigh
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe Department of Foreign Affairs, headquartered in Dublin, has improved in recent decades beyond all telling, since – if not due to – my retirement on Christmas Eve, 1995.
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A Locus of Dialogue: the Catholic School in a Pluralist World
Brian Flannery
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is generally accepted that the levels of Catholic patronage in Irish education are out of kilter with the profile of Ireland’s new demographic.
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A Pope on a Neoliberal Island
Kevin Hargaden
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is a year since Pope Francis visited Ireland. Various explanations can be offered for the relatively small numbers who attended the official ceremonies, although it should be remembered that these events represented the largest public gatherings anywhere in the state last year.
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After European Civilisation
Desmond Fennell
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleA common explanation of why the West is in turmoil has been the ‘populist’ risings against the ascendancy of ‘liberal political and cultural elites’. But the root cause of the disorder lies further back…
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After the Pope – the Catholic Church in Ireland
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe role of the Catholic Church in Irish public and private life has changed considerably.
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