2021: Volume 110
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Direct Provision in a Time of Pandemic
Patricia Brazil
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleDirect provision was introduced in April 2000 as a system for meeting the basic welfare needs of asylum seekers by providing full bed and board in designated accommodation units and a weekly financial payment of €19.10 per adult and €9.60 per child.
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From Austerity to Neo-Keynesianism: the EU’s U-Turn
Hilary Hogan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleAn EU commissioner’s recent acknowledgment that the imposition of austerity had been a ‘mistake’ passed by with relatively little fanfare.
An EU commissioner’s recent acknowledgment that the imposition of austerity had been a ‘mistake’ passed by with relatively little fanfare. Not very long ago, the European Union’s official line was that opposition to austerity was delusional, the product of anti-European sentiment that refused to face up to difficult but necessary choices
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Gay Byrne: The ‘Conservative Catholic’ Who Changed Ireland
Mary Kenny
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWhen Parnell died, he was described as ‘the uncrowned King of Ireland’. Something similar might be said – was said – about the broadcaster Gay Byrne, when he died in November 2019, aged eighty-five. Gay (‘Gaybo’ as he was popularly known) was not only the most famous television and radio presence in Ireland. At his death, tributes poured in from all sides emphasising the width of his impact on Irish society.
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How Did We Get Here? Reflections towards a Philosophy of the Present
Philipp W Rosemann
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleExplaining the present has always been one of the preoccupations of philosophy, and of modern philosophy in particular. Kant, in his celebrated essay, ‘What is Enlightenment?’; Hegel in his speculative metaphysics of history; Nietzsche in his declaration that ‘God is dead’; Heidegger in his reflections on ‘the end of philosophy and the task of thinking’ – all these philosophers, and others, have attempted to offer an account of their present conditions. This essay takes up the same task, but with the precise goal of shedding light upon the intellectual substructure (one could say) of Irish life in the 2020s.
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Human Suffering and Human Dignity
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe immediate trigger for these reflections is the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020. This Private Members’ Bill intends to give patients with a progressive and incurable terminal illness a choice to avail of ‘assisted dying’. Its chief sponsor, Gino Kenny TD, has acknowledged that this is ‘a profoundly difficult subject, no matter what side you’re on’ and called for ‘a respectful, rational and meaningful debate’.
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Industrial Policy in Ireland: Responding to COVID-19
William Kingston
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is clearly inevitable that the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, the events which have so dominated in 2020, will transform Irish economic conditions in a fundamental way.
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Limited Liability: Ireland’s Global Legacy
William Kingston
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleLimited liability allows sharing in ownership of a business without any responsibility for debts which that business may incur. The most that the investor can lose if it fails is the amount that the share in it has cost. Although the modern corporation depends absolutely upon it for its existence, this legal privilege is taken for granted, like the expectation that the sun will rise to-morrow.
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On Active Service in Ireland in a Troubled Decade 1915-25
Padraig Murray
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleMy father Pa Murray was a quiet man, and as we grew up he rarely spoke in detail of his experiences. However, my parents kept an open house, and our visitors were many and varied, mostly relatives from Derry and Cork, and also many names from the past as well. I first became conscious of this during the war years and afterwards when in winter months all activity was confined to a single room because of fuel shortages.
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Philosophers of the Intimate in a Time of Confinement: Iris Murdoch and Martha Nussbaum
Ruth Murphy
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleBut if we do leap ahead of what we know we still have to try to catch up. Will cannot run very far ahead of knowledge, and attention is our daily bread.
Covid-19 has not been ‘the great leveller’ that some had imagined.2 Over a year on, all data clearly show that social injustice has been amplified by the consequences of the pandemic.
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Responding to the ‘Rapidification’ of Working Life: the Right to Disconnect
Mark Bell
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, is best known for its theological
perspective on climate change. Yet its scope is wider, and this is captured in
his idea that we need to adopt the perspective of ‘integral ecology’, which he
described as ‘one which clearly respects its human and social dimensions’.
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Roman History in Hewitt, McGuinness, Friel, Heaney
Brian Arkins
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleReception Studies is a major growth area in Classics. The past has an impact on the present in an active rather than a passive way. T S Eliot explains: ‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different’. Marina Carr cites the example of Shakespeare: ‘he took from everywhere but look what he did with his plunder’.
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Rural and Pastoral Themes in Heaney’s Poetry
Romy Dawson
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSeamus Heaney is often remembered for his distinctively Northern Irish pastoral poetry, the sort that looks back on the rural idyll of his youth in 1940s and 50s Ulster.
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