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Patrick Reel- A Life in Paint
John O’Hagan
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I first met Patrick Reel around fifteen years ago. Initially I was drawn to the quaintness of and the atmosphere in the shop, house, studio, and gallery. In time we were delighted to become regular visitors to Ludlow St to meet Patrick and his sister Esther, and we became familiar with his wonderful life of artwork, the subject matter of a current retrospective exhibition of Reel’s work in the State Apartment Galleries in Dublin Castle.
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PeopleTalk: Promoting Conversation about Democracy
Edmond Grace SJ
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PeopleTalk: Promoting Conversation about Democracy
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Peter Sutherland and the European Project
Paul Gallagher SC
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I 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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I 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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But 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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your anger erupted at times
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Policy and Partnership
Maire Céline Clegg IBVM
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Educational 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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A 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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May 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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Paid 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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As 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.