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PeopleTalk: Promoting Conversation about Democracy
Edmond Grace SJ
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Peter Sutherland and the European Project
Paul Gallagher SC
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI am perhaps unusual among Peter Sutherland’s friends in that I only had the pleasure of knowing him for the last nine years of his life. Like many others, I was left with a profound sense of loss on his passing. His friendship was generous, kind and great fun. There was also a sense of Ireland’s great loss.
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Peter Sutherland: A Jesuit Boy
Noel Barber SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI am writing on Peter Sutherland as a ‘Jesuit boy’ not to insinuate that his place in history is due to his old school and the religious order that founded it. It is rather to describe, as best I can, the environment in which he developed his admiration of and loyalty to Gonzaga College and the Jesuits, and the consequences of the ‘Jesuit influence’.
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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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Poem: Christ and Humour
Desmond Egan
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Policy and Partnership
Maire Céline Clegg IBVM
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleEducational policy choices made at any given time can tell us a great deal about the role of the state within a particular society and its attitude to diversity within a contemporary culture.
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Political Theology- Three trials – Antigone, Socrates, Jesus
Paul Corcoran
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleA traveling circus in Denmark had caught fire [in front of a numerous public]. The manager thereupon sent the clown, who was already dressed and made-up for the performance, into the neighboring village to fetch help. … The clown hurried into the village and requested the inhabitants to come as quickly as possible to the blazing circus and help to put the fire out. But the villagers took the clown’s shouts simply for an excellent piece of advertising, meant to attract as many people as possible to the performance; they applauded the clown and laughed till they cried.
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Pope Francis in Conversation with European Editors of Jesuit Journals
Antonio Spadaro
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleMay 19, 2022. ‘Welcome! You see? I am in my new gestatorial chair,’ the pope joked, alluding to his being in a wheelchair owing to knee pain. Francis greeted, one-by-one, the editors of the cultural journals of the Society of Jesus in Europe gathered in the Private Library of the Apostolic Palace.
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Precarious Work Leads to Precarious Lives: the Irish Experience and Policy Responses
Sinéad Pembroke
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePaid work is an aspiration for many people. Many of us are thankful to have it, and it forms an integral part of our identity; often one of the first questions we ask a person is ‘what do you do for a living?’
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Prioritising McDonalds: The Gift of Work and Catholic Social Teaching
Kevin Hargaden
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleAs a teenager, my wife had a friend who worked part-time at a local McDonalds. The roster was drawn up without reference to the fact that she was preparing to sit her Leaving Certificate exams.
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Rebalancing Distorted Science Policy
William Kingston
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn an earlier article in Studies I discussed Ireland’s need for indigenous economic innovation, and what might be done about it.What follows focusses on related issues of excessive and wrongly directed expenditure on scientific research as a barrier to the achievement of this.
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Regenerating the State: The Key to Ireland’s Response to Climate Change
Johnny Gogan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how the response to the prospect of fracking in the border counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh could inform the wider imperative to decarbonize at a national level in the face of potentially irreversible climate change.
I was invited by the Royal Irish Academy to speak on this issue, and the issue of sustainability, based on my long-term participation in the group Love Leitrim, one of a number of groups formed in 2011 to address the potential introduction of fracking into Ireland. This community response resulted, six years later, in the passing into law of one of the most progressive pieces of fossil fuel legislation heretofore, at the heart of which was a ban on fracking in Ireland. Recognised as an achievement of sustained community action in the potentially affected border region, the measure secured all-party agreement in its various Oireachtas legislative phases.
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