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Thomas C Kohler
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Don’t Mention It: The Unacknowledged Tie between Religion and Labour Law
Thomas C Kohler
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The unacknowledged tie between religion and labour law? How can that even constitute a topic? Everyone knows that wherever one looks, whether in civil or in common law systems, labour law arose in the early twentieth century.
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Dynamic of Encounter: The Samaritan Woman at the Well
Emmaus O’Herlihy
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This essay was written to accompany a reproduction of the author’s own painting De Profundis, which was given to people who entered the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) programme at St Basil’s Catholic Parish Church, University of St Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada, in 2020. The painting is reproduced on the cover of this issue of Studies.
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Eco-Criticism and Derek Mahon’s ‘A Disused Shed in County Wexford’*
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James McElroy
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Enhancing Our Justice System
Richard Humphreys
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Richard Humphreys
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Faith-based Education and Religious Ethos – Some Reflections
Michael Jackson
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In addressing this broad area, I want to lay out a few pointers which may help in setting the context as it impacts on me.
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Frances Biggs and the Windows of Gonzaga College, Dublin
Declan O’Keeffe
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Gonzaga College SJ, named after St Aloysius Gonzaga, one of St Ignatius’s initial companions, was founded in 1950 in the leafy suburb of Ranelagh, Dublin 6. For the first fifteen years it did not have a chapel, as other things took priority, and religious services took place in the concert hall, which required moving furniture in and out on every occasion. When Fr John Hughes SJ took over as rector in 1959, the first priority of his office was to provide a chapel. In May of 1962 a working committee was established and parents were persuaded to part with £100 each, spread over ten years. In the account of William Lee SJ, ‘[t]he quality of that cut-granite, copper-roofed building dictated to a large extent the quality of the new school Chapel. The fact that Mr Andrew Devane was architect for both buildings ensured that the standard was maintained … The sculptor Mr Michael Biggs was commissioned to do the altar, the ambo, and the tabernacle pillar … The stained glass window at the apex of the triangular building was the work of Mrs Frances Biggs.’
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From Austerity to Neo-Keynesianism: the EU’s U-Turn
Hilary Hogan
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An EU commissioner’s recent acknowledgment that the imposition of austerity had been a ‘mistake’ passed by with relatively little fanfare.
An EU commissioner’s recent acknowledgment that the imposition of austerity had been a ‘mistake’ passed by with relatively little fanfare. Not very long ago, the European Union’s official line was that opposition to austerity was delusional, the product of anti-European sentiment that refused to face up to difficult but necessary choices
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From Shancoduff to Mossbawn: Lines of Convergence and Divergence in Kavanagh and Heaney
Una Agnew
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Una Agnew
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Full Issue: Democracy In Peril?
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Full Issue: Reformation 500
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Gay Byrne: The ‘Conservative Catholic’ Who Changed Ireland
Mary Kenny
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When Parnell died, he was described as ‘the uncrowned King of Ireland’. Something similar might be said – was said – about the broadcaster Gay Byrne, when he died in November 2019, aged eighty-five. Gay (‘Gaybo’ as he was popularly known) was not only the most famous television and radio presence in Ireland. At his death, tributes poured in from all sides emphasising the width of his impact on Irish society.
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George Goldie: A Catholic Architect in Post-Famine Ireland
Caoimhín de Bhailís
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The nineteenth-century saw the Catholic Church in Ireland express its newfound status after Emancipation in an expansive church building programme. Figures upward of two thousand have been given for the number of Roman Catholic churches either reconstructed or newly built between 1800 and 1870.