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Regulating Finance: Poachers Turned Gamekeepers
Patrick Riordan SJ
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Vatican watchers have been surprised recently by a new publication addressing issues of justice in financial affairs…The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development have together issued the document with the long but modest title Considerations for an Ethical Discernment Regarding Some Aspects of the Present Economic- Financial System….
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Regulating for the Future: The Law’s Enforcement Deficit
Orla Lynskey
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Digitization has changed the way we operate as individuals and as a society in significant ways, with this change accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Digital technologies are now treated as ‘imperative’ across many spheres of life. A by-product of this digitization has been datafication, as formerly analogue phenomena need to be translated into data in order to digitize them. As our daily social, professional, administrative, and civic interactions have taken on a digital dimension, the data generated about these transactions are recorded and analysed for insights. The data generated by your morning coffee purchase might therefore reveal your location, your appetite for early mornings, and your price sensitivity, amongst many other insights. The aggregation of such insights across all your daily activities can create remarkably in-depth profiles of individual behaviour.
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Religious Liberty: The Next Big Thing?
Patrick Riordan SJ
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Pope Francis’s timely letter Laudato Si’, on care for our common home, coincided with a general awakening of awareness of the crisis posed by climate change and the degradation of the natural environment.
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Remembering Peter Sutherland
The summer issue of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review is dedicated in tribute to the memory of Peter Sutherland, former Attorney General of Ireland, founding director-general of the World Trade Organisation, UN special representative for international migration from 2006-2017 and patron of Studies.
The centre-piece of the issue is a reproduction of a public lecture Chris Patten – now Lord Patten of Barnes CH, PC,– delivered in Dublin in February of this year, in honour of Sutherland.
Other contributions relating to Sutherland respectively afford us a glimpse of the personal qualities of a popular and hardworking individual, the impact and consequence of his Jesuit education and his expertise and commitment to a Europe united by free trade, as envisioned by Jean Monnet. A recent biography of Sutherland by John Walsh is also reviewed in the issue.
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The summer issue of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review is dedicated in tribute to the memory of Peter Sutherland, former Attorney General of Ireland, founding director-general of the World Trade…
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Remembering Peter Sutherland: A Personal Tribute
Garret Sheehan
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Alive, awake, alert, generous, good humoured, warm-hearted, energetic, funny, loyal, reliable, committed and sometimes difficult are all words that come to mind when thinking of Peter Sutherland. I first met him in the autumn of 1954 when we both arrived at Gonzaga College.
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Republican Dissent among Irish Jesuits during the Civil War, 1922-1923
Olivia Frehill
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Olivia Frehill
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Responding to the ‘Rapidification’ of Working Life: the Right to Disconnect
Mark Bell
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Pope 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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Richard Elmore: Forgotten Emancipationist
Caoimhin de Bhailis
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Richard John Elmore is one of the many nineteenth-century political campaigners who have fallen out of view, and hence consideration, when we discuss the history of the period. Elmore was an activist who made valuable contributions to the debate on Catholic Emancipation
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Rights in an Age of Brexit: Reflections from an Irish Perspective
Fiona de Londras
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Fiona de Londras, an Irish woman in Britain and professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham, offers an Irish perspective on Brexit
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Robert Southwell’s ‘A Vale of Tears’ as a Critique of Pastoral Poetry
Gary Bouchard
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Gary Bouchard
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Roman History in Hewitt, McGuinness, Friel, Heaney
Brian Arkins
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Reception 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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Seamus 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.