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Roman History in Hewitt, McGuinness, Friel, Heaney
Brian Arkins
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleReception 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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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSeamus 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.
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Scotland, Ireland and the Vision of a ‘British’ Protestant Reformation
Jane Dawson
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleScotland, Ireland and the Vision of a ‘British’ Protestant Reformation
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Seamus Heaney and Education: Student and Teacher
Bríd McGuinness
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWhile a visiting professor at Harvard University, Seamus Heaney was commissioned by Phi Beta Kappa Society to write a poem for their 1984 Literary Exercises, a yearly commencement event held in celebration of learning. In ‘Alphabets’, the resulting poem, Heaney decided to write about ‘making the first letters at primary school’. The poem indeed starts with a young Seamus learning shapes and symbols, before moving on to unfamiliar surroundings at St Columb’s College, Derry. In its third and final section, Heaney has come full circle, lecturing on academia’s most prestigious stages.
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Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell: A Turbulent Friendship
Jeffrey Meyers
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn Stepping Stones (2008), Dennis O’Driscoll’s excellent book of interviews, Seamus Heaney recalled that he first met Robert Lowell in 1972 at Sonia Orwell’s party to celebrate Lowell’s wedding to Caroline Blackwood.
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Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (1)
David F Ford
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThat is how, within an imagined conversation in the fifth and final canto of the fifth of The Five Quintets, Hannah Arendt addresses the author of the poem, Micheal O’Siadhail.
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Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (II)
David F Ford
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt may be that the most comprehensive issue for worldviews of the twenty-first century is the theme of the fourth quintet, ‘Finding’, in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets. The theme is summarised in the fifth stanza of the epigraph: how we understand and respond to the sciences. Whether we look at the cosmos and its stars, or at the sub-atomic level and its quarks, we face conceptions of the nature of reality that radically differ from earlier centuries. ‘Finding’ engages mainly with the natural sciences, but also with some other areas of inquiry that have affected worldviews, such as archaeology, linguistics, and the social sciences.
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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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Some Reflections on Maynooth’s 225th Anniversary
Martin Henry
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI first went to St Patrick’s College Maynooth in the autumn of 1971. At the time I probably just took it for granted, perhaps too easily, that the mission of the college was to corroborate and sustain the religious beliefs of the Catholic people of Ireland, mainly by educating future priests and teachers of religion.
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Sovereignity and the National Interest
Erik Jones
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleMuch of the world today is torn between national populists and liberal democrats. The national populists put the nation first; the liberal democrats argue for something closer to multicultural multilateralism. In doing so, they offer distinct visions of how sovereignty and the national interest interact. For national populists, sovereignty is an expression of the national interest; whoever wields sovereign authority should ensure that the national interest is served. For liberal democrats, sovereignty is the responsibility to determine what is in the nation’s best interests and then to reconcile competing claims and distribute scarce resources accordingly. The two groups also offer contrasting views of world order. The national populists focus on self-help and mutual respect. The liberal democrats emphasise integration, cooperation, and solidarity.
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Sovereignty and Culture
Michael Sanfey
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn a 1931 article entitled ‘World Sovereignty and World Culture: The Trend of International Affairs Since the War’ the historian Arnold J. Toynbeeconcluded by saying:
The need of the hour is to enable the public in each country to understand their neighbours’ point of view. Understanding, of course, does not necessarily bring agreement in its train but it does take the sting out of disagreement. People who really understand one another can disagree without rancour; people who disagree without rancour can discuss their differences with frankness; and a frank discussion of differences is a sovereign means of arriving at an agreement in the end.
If only this were true.
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Sovereignty and Its Limits – Some Kantian Lessons
Susan Meld Shell
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis is rather a different presentation than the one I would have presented a few weeks ago, before the gallant people of Ukraine along with their morally inspired leader, reminded us that announcements of the death of (popular) sovereignty may have been premature. Their actions might also call to mind Kant’s designation of an earlier act of republican courage, namely the storming of the Bastille, as prompting a ‘sign’ ‘never more to be forgotten’ that the future of the human race is not hopeless.
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