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The Future of EU Labour Law: Insights from Christian Ethics
Mark Bell
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This article focuses upon the discreet question of what role, if any, there might be for Christian ethics in shaping the future direction of EU labour law.
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The Future of Liberal Democracy
Chris Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes CH, PC
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It is a pleasure and an honour to be invited to give this lecture by Studies, and with the hospitality of the Society of Jesus, in honour of a great Irishman, a great European and a great world statesman, Peter Sutherland.
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The Future of the Catholic Church in Ireland: Synodality and the Wounds of Abuse
Gerry O’Hanlon
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‘Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down… If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore, so you can keep on’ – Eileen in Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
‘Commendable efforts have been made to prevent a recurrence and, in many ways, the social conditions which gave rise to those realities have passed away. However, the reckoning with these truths has yet to happen for the Church as a whole, and for Irish society as a whole’ – Dermot McCarthy
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The Future of Welfare is Ecosocial: Making it Happen
Mary P. Murphy
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This short article addresses the process of creating an ecosocial welfare future and is organised as nine key steps to a future welfare settlement, outlined in the visual of the Spiders Web below, and proceeds by exploring the problem, the solution and the politics of mobilisation for transformation. This version of an ecosocial welfare future is offered not as a concrete solution or definitive answer but to prompt social and institutional imagination and encourage discussion and debate. This article identifies the dual challenge of environmental destruction and inequality, and proposes an ecosocial solution as part of a broader transformative agenda to a post-growth world. It situates a political strategy for making it happen through a deepening and widening of democratic institutions and processes and through coalition-building. The conclusion underscores the urgency of now and the need to be Ready Now.
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The Future of Work after Laudato si’
Martin Maier SJ
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The encyclical Laudato Si’ of Pope Francis is a document that is both dramatic and hopeful. Dramatic because it leaves the reader in no doubt that the prevailing global system, with its reckless exploitation of natural resources and dangerous climate change, is heading for catastrophe.
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The Gentleman in Newman’s Idea of a University: A Genderless Model for Irish Catholics
Katherine O’Donnell
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The Idea of a University (1858) comprises ten public lectures John Henry Newman gave in Dublin on the occasion of the establishment of the first Catholic University of Ireland in 1852 when he was invited by the Irish Catholic hierarchy to assume the role of rector. The publication also includes a series of discourses and articles written during his tenure at the university from 1854 to 1858. In the preface Newman defines the nature and aims of a university, stressing that it is a place not so much for the advancement of knowledge through research as the diffusion of knowledge and the acquisition of wisdom through teaching and learning.
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The Geography of the Imagination: Brendan Behan’s The Scarperer
Thomas O’Grady
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Reasonably enough, critics have tended to dismiss Brendan Behan’s novel The Scarperer for what it is – a potboiler, a project undertaken quite literally to light a flame on the gas cooker.
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The Human Passion for Meaning Making: What Shapes Our Lives
William Mathews SJ
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In the preface and opening chapters of Ciarán Benson’s book, The Cultural Psychology of the Self, a major category treated is that of ‘the meaning making self’.1
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The Importance of Laws for Whistleblowing
William Kingston
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Since Whistleblowing was first discussed in Studies in 2001, the focus on actions from within organisations to stop wrongdoing in them has intensified.
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The Invisible Work of Women Religious: Oral Histories in Roman Convents
Flora Derounian
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Flora Derounian
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The Irish Catholic Church and Democracy, c. 1825–1923
Oliver P Rafferty SJ
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Oliver P Rafferty SJ
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The Irish General Election of June 1922
Anthony White
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The general election of 16 June 1922 has not been widely regarded as especially significant among historians. It has been overshadowed by the inevitable concentration on the civil war, which commenced within two weeks of that election. It can nevertheless be argued that it was one of the most important elections in the history of Dáil Éireann and of the Irish state.