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Young People and the Future of the Irish Church
Breda O’Brien
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The World Meeting of Families in August 2018 was a great boost for those who attended the event in the RDS. From the beginning, it was virtually ignored by mainstream media, and while the organisers and attendees valiantly tweeted and posted, it could not overcome the absence of mainstream coverage. Therefore, it had little wider impact beyond the people who attended.
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‘I Must Be Buried at Straide’: Michael Davitt’s Final Request
John Dunleavy
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Michael Davitt made his will in 1904, some two years before his death. He had clear views as to where he should be buried…
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‘Marking the Card’ of an Overseas Candidate for Garda Commissioner
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William Kingston
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‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)*
Brendan Walsh
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The impact of free education
What the experience of working with the religious was like for their lay colleagues between the 1940s and the late 1970s largely depends upon time and place. -
‘Stand Upright and Raise Your Head!’: Doing Theology in Dangerous Times
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Michael Kirwan SJ and Jessica Hazrati
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‘The Subsidised Muse’: The Case for State Funding of the Arts
John O’Hagan
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Politicians and taxpayers understandably want to know how their money is being spent and whether to good effect or not. This applies across the whole public sector, including expenditure on the arts. One might argue that the ‘output’ of the arts sector is very difficult to measure, and this is probably true, but so also is the output of the police service or the educational system or the health service. The arts sector is no different.
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The Terrible Beauty of Transcendence: A Reflection on Easter 1916
David Walsh
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The Terrible Beauty of Transcendence: A Reflection on Easter 1916
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Some Reflections on Dawkins
Bill Toner SJ
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Some Reflections on Dawkins
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The Rise of Fundamentalisms and the Concept of Sin
Megan Loumagne
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The Rise of Fundamentalisms and the Concept of Sin
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and his Friends in Dublin
Michael McGinley
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and his Friends in Dublin
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Two Nineteenth-Century Catholic Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Aubrey de Vere
Patrick Samway SJ
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Two Nineteenth-Century Catholic Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Aubrey de Vere
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‘Time, Energy and Brass’: Why Studies Did Not Fail
Declan O’Keeffe
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‘Time, Energy and Brass’: Why Studies Did Not Fail