2024: Volume 113
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Access and Inclusion for a Modern RIAM: Reflections from a Twenty-First Century Conservatoire Leader
Deborah Kelleher
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIf you open the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) current strategic plan you will find that ‘Access and Inclusion for a Modern RIAM’ is the first of four overarching goals. This paper begins by making the case that access and inclusion was a founding principle of the RIAM and has continued as a principle up to today. I reflect, as director of RIAM, on our more recent contribution to promoting access and inclusion in music education and participation to include young people and adults with disabilities through the creation of the Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland. I review some of the defining factors that influenced our thinking, including the Creative Ireland project (2017–present), international models of good practice, and policy statements about music and human rights.
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Newman’s ‘Campaign in Ireland’: Frustration and ‘Failure’
Paul Shrimpton
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is an honour to be asked to speak about St John Henry Newman in the Catholic University Church that he built and where he preached on eight occasions. I am grateful to the Newman Centres at UCD and Notre Dame for inviting me to speak. What I have to say draws largely on the two documents that make up My Campaign in Ireland, Part II: a long memorandum by Newman entitled ‘My Connection with the Catholic University’ (which I will refer to as the Memorandum) and a much longer, related item entitled ‘Extracts from Letters’ (or simply Extracts).
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On Retreat with the Jesuit Pope
Austen Ivereigh
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSomewhere between my two biographical books about Pope Francis I realized I’d written out a vital protagonist. When it came out, right at the start of the pontificate, The Great Reformer had a good title that has stood the test of time.
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Poem: Christ and Humour
Desmond Egan
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Sexual Violence Against Women, Social Sin, and the Virtue of Resistance
Suzanne Mulligan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis article explores the connection between virtue, social sin, and sexual violence against women. In the Catholic theological tradition, considerable time has been given to questions of sexual morality but often with disproportionate focus on the sexual act.
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Spring 2024: The arts and Society: A Question of Values
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The Prison Service and the Arts: Impact and Emerging Debates
Sarah Doxat-Pratt
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe place of the arts within prisons is a subject that receives much attention in both scholarship and in charitable activity. In recognition of the many personal and social benefits that the arts can bring to individuals and society, many arts practitioners, criminal justice workers, philanthropic funders and researchers are interested in how these benefits could apply in prisons and how to harness those benefits.
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The Rise of the Far-Right: From Condemnation to Understanding
Peadar Kirby
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleTwo days after the riots in Dublin city centre on 23 November 2023, Fintan O’Toole published an article in The Irish Times. While the article was a heartfelt and emotional response to a terrible spectacle of anti-social violence and thuggery, it was also disturbing in two senses.
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The Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church: Progress and Challenges
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is a good time to take stock of where the Catholic Church is at in its daring ambition to reimagine itself globally along synodal lines. The first session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality concluded last October (2023) and preparations are under way for the second and final session next October (2024).
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Trinity College Chapel Choir: Profiling Chorister Perceptions
Kerry Houston and Marita Kerin
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir is an institution that dates from the seventeenth century. Until recently, however, very little information existed on the chapel choristers themselves. The current study, which is the first study of the chapel choristers to be published, is designed to fill this lacuna. It is composed of two parts, which will be shared across two issues of Studies. This first part covers the findings from an investigation into how current chapel choristers view the musical, spiritual, and social aspects of their experience, revealing new cultural perspectives of affiliation, achievement and agency. But first a historical overview of the Chapel Choir at Trinity College.
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‘The Subsidised Muse’: The Case for State Funding of the Arts
John O’Hagan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePoliticians and taxpayers understandably want to know how their money is being spent and whether to good effect or not. This applies across the whole public sector, including expenditure on the arts. One might argue that the ‘output’ of the arts sector is very difficult to measure, and this is probably true, but so also is the output of the police service or the educational system or the health service. The arts sector is no different.
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