2021: Volume 110
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Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (1)
David F Ford
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThat is how, within an imagined conversation in the fifth and final canto of the fifth of The Five Quintets, Hannah Arendt addresses the author of the poem, Micheal O’Siadhail.
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Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (II)
David F Ford
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt may be that the most comprehensive issue for worldviews of the twenty-first century is the theme of the fourth quintet, ‘Finding’, in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets. The theme is summarised in the fifth stanza of the epigraph: how we understand and respond to the sciences. Whether we look at the cosmos and its stars, or at the sub-atomic level and its quarks, we face conceptions of the nature of reality that radically differ from earlier centuries. ‘Finding’ engages mainly with the natural sciences, but also with some other areas of inquiry that have affected worldviews, such as archaeology, linguistics, and the social sciences.
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Studies, Winter 2021 – COVID-19: Law & Human Rights
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The Irish State’s COVID-19 Response and the Rule of Law: Causes for Concern
Conor Casey, Oran Doyle, David Kenny
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSince March 2020, the most dominant issue in the Irish legal landscape has been, unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ireland has not declared a constitutional state of emergency since the pandemic reached its shores: it cannot, as a public health emergency is not grounds for use of emergency powers in the Irish constitution.
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The Proposed Assisted Suicide / Euthanasia Bill
D Vincent Twomey SVD
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe proposed Dying with Dignity Bill currently under discussion in Dáil Éireann aims to address the human/ethical dilemma posed (1) by those with an incurable illness that is the immediate cause of such intense suffering that those affected want to end their pain by ending their lives and (2) by medical personnel who, moved by compassion for the suffering of the patient but unable to do anything to relieve their pain despite advances in palliative care and pain-suppressing drugs, are requested by the patient, or are so upset by the patient’s evident agony, that they are tempted to accede to the patient’s plea to end their pain.
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The Revolution of Mercy and a New Ecumenism
Tomáš Halík
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSome time ago, sensational and striking news from the Vatican appeared on the front pages of the world’s leading newspapers.
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The Significance of ‘Home’ in Séamus Heaney
Romy Dawson
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleHome has always been more than mere domestic setting in Seamus Heaney’s work. The people, traditions, values, sounds, noises, and smells that emerged from his Ulster farmstead and surrounding landscape have been not only central to his identity as a Northern Irish poet, but absolutely integral to his creative well-spring.
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The World in 2021
Kevin O’Rourke
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWith the dawning of 2021 some of us are experiencing an emotion that has become unfamiliar recently: optimism.
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The World in 2021: Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Spring 2021
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Where has Cardinal Pell’s Case Brought Us in the Australian Church?
Frank Brennan SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePope John Paul II’s biographer George Weigel, writing the Introduction to Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal, describes this writer as one who ‘had previously held no brief for Cardinal Pell’ and as ‘one who was a severe critic’.1 I plead guilty to both charges.
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