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Hopkins and Lanier: A Transatlantic Note
Gerald Roberts
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleAt the time in April 1884 when he became (briefly) acquainted with the name of the American poet Sidney Lanier some three years after the latter’s death, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s knowledge of his transatlantic contemporaries was certainly very limited.
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Hopkins’s Use of Biblical Stories in his Shipwreck Poems
Patrick Samway SJ
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How Did We Get Here? Reflections towards a Philosophy of the Present
Philipp W Rosemann
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleExplaining the present has always been one of the preoccupations of philosophy, and of modern philosophy in particular. Kant, in his celebrated essay, ‘What is Enlightenment?’; Hegel in his speculative metaphysics of history; Nietzsche in his declaration that ‘God is dead’; Heidegger in his reflections on ‘the end of philosophy and the task of thinking’ – all these philosophers, and others, have attempted to offer an account of their present conditions. This essay takes up the same task, but with the precise goal of shedding light upon the intellectual substructure (one could say) of Irish life in the 2020s.
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Human Suffering and Human Dignity
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe immediate trigger for these reflections is the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020. This Private Members’ Bill intends to give patients with a progressive and incurable terminal illness a choice to avail of ‘assisted dying’. Its chief sponsor, Gino Kenny TD, has acknowledged that this is ‘a profoundly difficult subject, no matter what side you’re on’ and called for ‘a respectful, rational and meaningful debate’.
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Ignatius of Loyola: Apostle to the Muslims
Damian Howard SJ
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIgnatius of Loyola: Apostle to the Muslims
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Illuminating Dark Times- The Surprising Relevance of Catholic Social Teaching
Anna Rowlands
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn 1968 the social philosopher and sometime critic of Christianity Hannah Arendt published a book in homage to Bertolt Brecht’s poem, ‘To Posterity’, which begins with the following stanza:
Indeed I live in the dark times!
A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens
A hard heart. He who laughs
Has not yet heard
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Imagining Kells: A Poetic Meditation on the Book of Kells
James Harpur
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn 2018 I published a book of poems, The White Silhouette, that mainly focused on Christian spirituality and mysticism. At its centre was a four-part meditative poem inspired by the Book of Kells that took me nineteen years, on and off, to complete. In this essay I hope to describe my fascination with the Book of Kells and some of the themes and questions that emerged in my poem, such as: ‘Can sacred art effect a fundamental change of consciousness in the beholder?’ ‘How much does it help to be a believer to appreciate the Book of Kells?’ ‘What is the function of the Book of Kells in the twenty-first century?
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Industrial Policy in Ireland: Responding to COVID-19
William Kingston
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is clearly inevitable that the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, the events which have so dominated in 2020, will transform Irish economic conditions in a fundamental way.
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Ireland’s Election 2020: The Shape of Things to Come?
Anthony White
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThere were a number of unique factors about the Irish general election of February 2020, which in time may cause it to be seen as one of the most significant in the history of the state.
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Irish Catholics in Early Twentieth Century Ireland: The Case of the Macardle Brothers
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleDesmond Gibney
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Irish Churches and Reconciliation: Breaking the Bondage of the Past
Fergus O’Ferrall
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe continuing grave and unresolved situation on the island of Ireland calls all who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour to a costly ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:18).
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Irish Politics and Brexit Failure
William Kingston
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€3.00 Purchase Single ArticleA ‘no-deal’ Brexit obviously means a hard border in Ireland, and with the election of Boris Johnson, the danger of it has greatly increased.
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