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Irish, ‘Celtic’, and the Future
Alan Titley
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleWhen I was asked to imagine Ireland, and the place that the Irish language, literature, and culture might have in it in 2030, I had to swallow hard. It is difficult enough to examine a past that is always changing, almost impossible to assess a present that is in constant flux: so what chance is there to imagine a future that will never be what we think?
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Is There a Future for Christian Religious Education in Irish Post-primary Schools?
Amalee Meehan
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe Irish state is committed to ensure that all children, in accordance with their abilities should have ‘formative experiences in moral, religious and spiritual education’, while maintaining due regard for the rights of the child and their parents to freedom of religion.
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John Henry Newman and the Idea of a University
David Begg
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn an address to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome on 11 October 2019 to mark the canonisation of John Henry Newman, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin observed: ‘The development of university education in Ireland has lost this dream of Newman. The main universities proclaim themselves to be, by definition, exclusively secular and thus they shun any real place for religion in their culture’.
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John Hume’s Legacy
Michael Lillis
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt would be difficult to argue against the proposition that John Hume has been the most important and influential political leader in Ireland over the past forty years.
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John Redmond and the First World War
Ronan McGreevy
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleRonan McGreevy writes about John Redmond, whose commitment to Irish participation in the First World War destroyed him and his party.
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Joseph Ratzinger on the Foundations of Moral Theology
D Vincent Twomey SVD
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleFor Joseph Ratzinger, the future Benedict XVI, now Pope Emeritus, Christianity cannot – in the tradition of Kant – be reduced to ethics.1
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Julien Green (1900–1998)- Exploring the Intersection of Religion and Literature
Eamon Maher
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe extent and quality of Julien Green’s work has earned for him a place in the pantheon of French, and, indeed, world letters. Born in Paris at the very start of the twentieth century to American parents, Green never felt completely at home in France or in the American South, where he went to pursue a university education.
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Just Work? Catholic & Feminist Perspectives on Labour and Livelihood
Christine Firer Hinze
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis brief essay is premised on two convictions. The first is that modern
Catholic Social Teaching and thought, though it has many limits, provides
a contemporary, Gospel- and tradition-based understanding of human
flourishing, a specific orientation toward people and institutions, and a
set of moral principles or base-points.
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Justice, Dignity, and Reward: Nurturing Relationships in the Gig Economy
Calum Samuelson
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe Bible has a great deal to say about workers and work, but, due to considerable cultural and economic differences, it can be difficult to apply biblical wisdom to the complex landscape of modern work.
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Latecomers to Reform? Catholic Activism in the Wake of the French Wars of Religion
Alison Forrestal
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleLatecomers to Reform? Catholic Activism in the Wake of the French Wars of Religion
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Limited Liability: Ireland’s Global Legacy
William Kingston
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleLimited liability allows sharing in ownership of a business without any responsibility for debts which that business may incur. The most that the investor can lose if it fails is the amount that the share in it has cost. Although the modern corporation depends absolutely upon it for its existence, this legal privilege is taken for granted, like the expectation that the sun will rise to-morrow.
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Living Lightly on Our Planet: Challenges for Ireland
Peadar Kirby
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleAt the time of writing this article in the autumn of 2022, a slew of authoritative reports and studies underline the extremely precarious nature of the current situation facing humanity and the other species with which we share this beautiful planet. To take a few examples:
• The UN Emissions Gap Report showed that updated national emission-reduction pledges since the Glasgow climate summit in late 2021 make a negligible difference to predicted 2030 emissions and that we are far from the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015.
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