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Responding to the ‘Rapidification’ of Working Life: the Right to Disconnect
Mark Bell
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticlePope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, is best known for its theological
perspective on climate change. Yet its scope is wider, and this is captured in
his idea that we need to adopt the perspective of ‘integral ecology’, which he
described as ‘one which clearly respects its human and social dimensions’.
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Richard Elmore: Forgotten Emancipationist
Caoimhin de Bhailis
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleRichard John Elmore is one of the many nineteenth-century political campaigners who have fallen out of view, and hence consideration, when we discuss the history of the period. Elmore was an activist who made valuable contributions to the debate on Catholic Emancipation
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Rights in an Age of Brexit: Reflections from an Irish Perspective
Fiona de Londras
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleFiona de Londras, an Irish woman in Britain and professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham, offers an Irish perspective on Brexit
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Robert Southwell’s ‘A Vale of Tears’ as a Critique of Pastoral Poetry
Gary Bouchard
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Roman History in Hewitt, McGuinness, Friel, Heaney
Brian Arkins
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleReception Studies is a major growth area in Classics. The past has an impact on the present in an active rather than a passive way. T S Eliot explains: ‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different’. Marina Carr cites the example of Shakespeare: ‘he took from everywhere but look what he did with his plunder’.
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Rural and Pastoral Themes in Heaney’s Poetry
Romy Dawson
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSeamus Heaney is often remembered for his distinctively Northern Irish pastoral poetry, the sort that looks back on the rural idyll of his youth in 1940s and 50s Ulster.
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Scotland, Ireland and the Vision of a ‘British’ Protestant Reformation
Jane Dawson
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleScotland, Ireland and the Vision of a ‘British’ Protestant Reformation
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Seamus Heaney and Education: Student and Teacher
Bríd McGuinness
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWhile a visiting professor at Harvard University, Seamus Heaney was commissioned by Phi Beta Kappa Society to write a poem for their 1984 Literary Exercises, a yearly commencement event held in celebration of learning. In ‘Alphabets’, the resulting poem, Heaney decided to write about ‘making the first letters at primary school’. The poem indeed starts with a young Seamus learning shapes and symbols, before moving on to unfamiliar surroundings at St Columb’s College, Derry. In its third and final section, Heaney has come full circle, lecturing on academia’s most prestigious stages.
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Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell: A Turbulent Friendship
Jeffrey Meyers
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn Stepping Stones (2008), Dennis O’Driscoll’s excellent book of interviews, Seamus Heaney recalled that he first met Robert Lowell in 1972 at Sonia Orwell’s party to celebrate Lowell’s wedding to Caroline Blackwood.
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Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (1)
David F Ford
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThat is how, within an imagined conversation in the fifth and final canto of the fifth of The Five Quintets, Hannah Arendt addresses the author of the poem, Micheal O’Siadhail.
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Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (II)
David F Ford
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt may be that the most comprehensive issue for worldviews of the twenty-first century is the theme of the fourth quintet, ‘Finding’, in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets. The theme is summarised in the fifth stanza of the epigraph: how we understand and respond to the sciences. Whether we look at the cosmos and its stars, or at the sub-atomic level and its quarks, we face conceptions of the nature of reality that radically differ from earlier centuries. ‘Finding’ engages mainly with the natural sciences, but also with some other areas of inquiry that have affected worldviews, such as archaeology, linguistics, and the social sciences.
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Sexual Violence Against Women, Social Sin, and the Virtue of Resistance
Suzanne Mulligan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis article explores the connection between virtue, social sin, and sexual violence against women. In the Catholic theological tradition, considerable time has been given to questions of sexual morality but often with disproportionate focus on the sexual act.
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