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  • The Poetics of Place in George Moore and John McGahern

    Eamon Maher

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    This essay seeks to sketch out the way in which two, what might be called ‘canonical’, Irish writers, George Moore (1852–1933) and John McGahern (1934–2006), reveal comparable, though contrasting, sensibility to place.

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  • The Prison Service and the Arts: Impact and Emerging Debates

    Sarah Doxat-Pratt

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    The 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 Problem of Celibacy in the Clerical Films of Bob Quinn

    Jacob Martin SJ

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    In the wake of myriad revelations of clerical abuse and its cover-up by Church authorities in the last two decades, the question of mandatory priestly celibacy has been largely relegated to discourses surrounding child sexual abuse that are frequently informed by the misguided perception that clerical sexual continence leads to paedophilia. However before the clerical abuse crisis came to the fore in the late 1990s, and at least since the time of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the necessity and practicality of compulsory chastity for Catholic clergy has been a contested issue within the ecclesial and public spheres in Ireland.

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  • The Proposed Assisted Suicide / Euthanasia Bill

    D Vincent Twomey SVD

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    The 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 Protestant History of the Irish Reformation

    Alan Ford

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    The Protestant History of the Irish Reformation

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  • The Protocol for Ireland/Northern Ireland: A Long and Winding Road

    Brian Feeney

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    The gestation of what became the Irish/Northern Irish Protocol, later simply ‘the protocol’, began on Sunday 2 October 2016, after the British Prime Minister Theresa May made a speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham setting out a hard line on Brexit. The next day Michel Barnier began his new job as the EU’s Brexit negotiator.

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  • The Redmond Family in Parliamentary Politics

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    John Bruton

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  • The Reformation and the Irish Language

    Mícheál Mac Craith OFM

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    The Reformation and the Irish Language

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  • The Reformation in Ireland ‘With the Religion Left Out’: Une Paradigme Erronée?

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    Henry A Jefferies

     

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  • The Revolution of Mercy and a New Ecumenism

    Tomáš Halík

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    Some 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 Rise of the Far-Right: From Condemnation to Understanding

    Peadar Kirby

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    Two 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 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts: 200 Years of Social and Artistic Change

    John Turpin

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    For two hundred years visitors to the annual exhibitions of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in Dublin have been attracted by the range of work on view: landscapes, seascapes, scenes of rural and urban life, portraits, still life, abstracts and subject paintings, together with various pieces in three dimensions. However, the RHA and its exhibitions were not aesthetic manifestations in isolation but were located within the complex historical fabric of Irish society.

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