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The Gentleman in Newman’s Idea of a University: A Genderless Model for Irish Catholics
Katherine O’Donnell
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe Idea of a University (1858) comprises ten public lectures John Henry Newman gave in Dublin on the occasion of the establishment of the first Catholic University of Ireland in 1852 when he was invited by the Irish Catholic hierarchy to assume the role of rector. The publication also includes a series of discourses and articles written during his tenure at the university from 1854 to 1858. In the preface Newman defines the nature and aims of a university, stressing that it is a place not so much for the advancement of knowledge through research as the diffusion of knowledge and the acquisition of wisdom through teaching and learning.
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The Geography of the Imagination: Brendan Behan’s The Scarperer
Thomas O’Grady
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleReasonably enough, critics have tended to dismiss Brendan Behan’s novel The Scarperer for what it is – a potboiler, a project undertaken quite literally to light a flame on the gas cooker.
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The Human Passion for Meaning Making: What Shapes Our Lives
William Mathews SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn the preface and opening chapters of Ciarán Benson’s book, The Cultural Psychology of the Self, a major category treated is that of ‘the meaning making self’.1
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The Importance of Laws for Whistleblowing
William Kingston
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleSince Whistleblowing was first discussed in Studies in 2001, the focus on actions from within organisations to stop wrongdoing in them has intensified.
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The Invisible Work of Women Religious: Oral Histories in Roman Convents
Flora Derounian
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleFlora Derounian
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The Irish Catholic Church and Democracy, c. 1825–1923
Oliver P Rafferty SJ
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The Irish Constitution in Context
Tim Murphy
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe relationship between the Irish government and the Oireachtas follows the Westminster model of responsible government, a model that tends to produce parliaments dominated and controlled by the executive branch of government.
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The Irish General Election of June 1922
Anthony White
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe general election of 16 June 1922 has not been widely regarded as especially significant among historians. It has been overshadowed by the inevitable concentration on the civil war, which commenced within two weeks of that election. It can nevertheless be argued that it was one of the most important elections in the history of Dáil Éireann and of the Irish state.
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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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