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The Irish State’s COVID-19 Response and the Rule of Law: Causes for Concern
Conor Casey, Oran Doyle, David Kenny
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSince March 2020, the most dominant issue in the Irish legal landscape has been, unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ireland has not declared a constitutional state of emergency since the pandemic reached its shores: it cannot, as a public health emergency is not grounds for use of emergency powers in the Irish constitution.
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The Plays of Patrick Pearse: A Playwright’s Viewpoint
Brian McAvera
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The Poetics of Place in George Moore and John McGahern
Eamon Maher
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis 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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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe 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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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn 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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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe 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 Protocol for Ireland/Northern Ireland: A Long and Winding Road
Brian Feeney
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe 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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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleJohn Bruton
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The Reformation and the Irish Language
Mícheál Mac Craith OFM
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The Reformation in Ireland ‘With the Religion Left Out’: Une Paradigme Erronée?
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleHenry A Jefferies
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The Revolution of Mercy and a New Ecumenism
Tomáš Halík
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSome time ago, sensational and striking news from the Vatican appeared on the front pages of the world’s leading newspapers.
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