2020: Volume 109
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David Clare
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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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€7.00 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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€7.00 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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‘The English Language Belongs to Us?’
Brian Cosgrove
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€7.00 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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€7.00 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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€7.00 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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Autumn 2020: Transformations
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George Goldie: A Catholic Architect in Post-Famine Ireland
Caoimhín de Bhailís
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe nineteenth-century saw the Catholic Church in Ireland express its newfound status after Emancipation in an expansive church building programme. Figures upward of two thousand have been given for the number of Roman Catholic churches either reconstructed or newly built between 1800 and 1870.
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Heaney’s The Cure at Troy and the Christian Virtue of Hope
Paul Corcoran
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe penultimate chorus of Seamus Heaney’s Cure at Troy contains perhaps the poet’s most oft-quoted words. They cap the tone of a work that ‘proceeds from, and ends in, optimism’
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Heroes and Villains: A Historian’s Check-List
Felix M Larkin
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleHistorians like me are trained to think about significant figures from the past not as heroes or villains, but in a more nuanced way.
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Hopkins and Lanier: A Transatlantic Note
Gerald Roberts
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleAt the time in April 1884 when he became (briefly) acquainted with the name of the American poet Sidney Lanier some three years after the latter’s death, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s knowledge of his transatlantic contemporaries was certainly very limited.
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Ireland’s Election 2020: The Shape of Things to Come?
Anthony White
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThere were a number of unique factors about the Irish general election of February 2020, which in time may cause it to be seen as one of the most significant in the history of the state.
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John Henry Newman and the Idea of a University
David Begg
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn an address to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome on 11 October 2019 to mark the canonisation of John Henry Newman, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin observed: ‘The development of university education in Ireland has lost this dream of Newman. The main universities proclaim themselves to be, by definition, exclusively secular and thus they shun any real place for religion in their culture’.
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