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Climate, Communities, and Capitalism: Critically Imagining and Co-Creating Pathways for a Sustainable Ireland
Amanda Slevin
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Wildfires, droughts, floods, beloved species facing extinction – a selection of stark indicators of the accelerating climate and ecological emergency. Underpinned by human patterns of production, consumption, and associated environmental degradation, the ‘triple planetary crises’of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution pose an existential threat to human and non-human species. Consequently, socio-ecological and scientific imperatives for urgent, transformative action have become firmly established, yet with only a few years to 2030 (a landmark year for climate commitments) our shared island, encompassing people on both sides of Ireland’s politically constructed border, is woefully unprepared to tackle the massive difficulties we collectively face.
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Community Voices and ‘Community Scripts’
Carmen Mangion
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Carmen Mangion
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Concluding Observations
David Begg
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I propose to offer some observations on the themes raised in the other papers, based on my own experience as a labour market practitioner over many years. Christian ethics has never been an abstract concept in industrial relations in Ireland.
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Confronting the Past for the Sake of the Future
Séamus Murphy SJ
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The 1998 Good Friday or Belfast Agreement outlined structures of power-sharing in Northern Ireland and supporting roles for the British and Irish governments. It also contained something new in Irish history, namely, a commitment by unionist and nationalist representatives to the following principles:
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COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Right to Education in Ireland
Alan Brady and James Rooney
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In January 2021, the Minister for Education ordered all schools – including special schools – closed, in response to the third, and, so far, most extreme, wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19: Law and Human Rights: Foreword
Conor Casey and Oran Doyle
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In June 2020, the Law School at Trinity College Dublin established the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory to explain, analyse and critique Ireland’s legal response to COVID-19.
We are honoured to have been asked to contribute to this volume of Studies, highlighting some of the principal themes that have animated our work over the past twenty months.
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Daniel O’Connell and Alfred Elmore’s Martyrdom of Thomas à Becket
Caoimhín de Bhailís
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Caoimhín de Bhailís
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Democracy in Crisis
Thomas N Mitchell
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Democracy in Crisis
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Democracy – Merits, Limitations, Alternatives
Martin Mansergh
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Democracy – Merits, Limitations, Alternatives
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Democratic Backsliding and the Unravelling of the EU Legal Order
Ronan McCrea
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The political world of the EU has often been accused of being a Potemkin village. It had a flag, a parliament and elections, but behind this façade the voters were not really engaged. This has fueled a tendency to easily perceive existential crises for the Union.
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Developing IBVM (Loreto) Archives Across the Globe
Aine McHugh
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Aine McHugh
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Direct Provision in a Time of Pandemic
Patricia Brazil
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Direct provision was introduced in April 2000 as a system for meeting the basic welfare needs of asylum seekers by providing full bed and board in designated accommodation units and a weekly financial payment of €19.10 per adult and €9.60 per child.