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Studies is a cultural journal of the Irish Jesuit province, founded and in continuous publication since 1912. It examines Irish social, political, cultural and economic affairs.

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Another read from the archives this Sunday - from 1998, Joseph Feeney SJ on the origins of Martin McDonagh:

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Martin McDonagh: Dramatist of the West - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
In this article from 1998, Joseph Feeney SJ explores the origins and rise of Martin McDonagh, one of modern Ireland’s most successful playwrights. Joseph Feeney SJ was professor of English Literature ...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The upcoming Winter issue of Studies will focus on 'Language and the Landscape', with a leading theme of the life and work of Manchán Magan and lead articles by @liammacamhlaigh.bsky.social, Siobhán McNamara, and Tom Casey SJ.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Enjoy some Sunday morning reading with a visit to our archives and a brief history of the deep connections between Ireland and the Camino de Santiago:

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Ireland and the Camino de Santiago - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
In this article from 1948, Dr Richard Hayes provides a brief history of the deep religious, military, and educational links between Ireland and Spain, via the Camino de Santiago de Compostella. Richar...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Studies' editor Dermot Roantree was the featured guest on Joe Humphreys' Unthinkable column in this week's @irishtimes.com, discussing JD Vance's misappropriation of the work of René Girard and the subsequent impact on Vance's Catholicism and politics
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has paid tribute to Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, describing the campaigner and advocate as a "true Christian who dedicated her life to helping those on the margins" www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1103/1541852-sister-stan/
Taoiseach leads tributes to 'tireless' advocate Sr Stan
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has paid tribute to Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, describing the campaigner and advocate as a "true Christian who dedicated her life to helping those on the margins".
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November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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In honour of our outgoing President, this week's archival blog presents four poems by Michael D. Higgins:

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Michael D. Higgins - A Selection of Poems - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
In honour of the forthcoming end of his second and final Presidential term, this week’s archival blog features a number of poems by President Michael D. Higgins. First published in Studies in the Autu...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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In Studies Autumn 2025, Laurie Reilly, Conchúr Ó Maonaigh & Jennie C. Stephens argue the impact of financially-motivated collaboration between universities & industry has led to - amongst other detrimental effects - prioritisation of research with commercial value over non-commercial research:
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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One of four poems by John F. Deane published in our Autumn 2025 issue:
A poem by Irish poet John F. Deane, published in the Autumn 2025 edition of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Title: Nora's Story: Featherfall They have winched and tackled her bed downstairs; her hair and face are potter’s clay, and her mind rumbles the hayfields and blackberry laneways of her island. But the suburbs are loud, intrusive; she is far from the old country, far from the hush of high-tide Atlantic waters. She lay still, striving to hold the pain at bay while long-gone friends paused by her bedside; she spoke aloud to them of the white loveliness of her wedding-gown, their voices whisperingly assenting. Now she lies, the senses numbed, prepared for the encounter, waiting until she hears the words: “Nora, Nora, today I have given you your name”. She is like the fulmar, soaring out and upheld on the arms of air, arcing beautifully back to the cliff-face ledge. When the air scants,she will ease away, wings failing, featherfall. For the earth, she knows, will envelop, in love, all this bewildering making.
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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'Tent at Gaza' by John Behan RHA
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Tent at Gaza sculpture by John Behan
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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As someone raised in the diaspora and a past member of various bands, 🎸 I’m delighted to see my latest journal article (“Key Preoccupations in the Work of English Rock Artists of Irish Descent”) out in the latest issue of STUDIES: AN IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW!:
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October 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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In our current edition Dr Joseph Rivera (of @dublincityuni.bsky.social) explores the attacks on higher education by the Trump administration, arguing that - despite widespread consequences for the sector - intellectually Trump's interference is little more than an assertion of conservative dominance
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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An event that may interest our readers, featuring contributor to our current edition @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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'What the Young Saint Said', one of two poems by Gerard Smyth published in Studies Autumn 2025

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Image depicts a poem, 'What the Young Saint Said', by Dublin poet Gerard Smyth, which is published in the current Autumn 2025 edition of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Poem below: for John F Deane Let God be God, the young saint said, not Roman, not Greek, or belonging only to pilgrim and conqueror but the God of all things: the Judas Tree and hornet’s nest, songthrush and garden slug. Let God be God, not the bearer of so many names or the judge who sits in the court of angels. Let him not be the gatekeeper at the Gates of Wrath, the tormenter of an innocent conscience. Let God be God, the young saint said, not the cause of holy wars or one who sends his proxies to rob our mirth but a God unbothered by heresies of dogma, His presence heard in the singer’s voice, sound of the orchestra, the iron gate when it creaks, the bells on Paternoster Street.
October 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Autumn 2025's opening article, from @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, is a stark challenge to the university sector that asks it to utilise its resources and influence for the public good, and move society towards 'a more just, ecologically-healthy, climate-stable future'

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October 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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What becomes a university in an Age of Crises?

Editor of Studies, Dermot Roantree, explores in his Autumn 2025 editorial:
October 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Studies Autumn 2025, "The University in an Age of Crises, Challenges and Responses" - available now in select bookshops and online from studiesirishreview.ie
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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"The museum is indeed a secular temple, for like a house of God, it is properly a place of wonder":

The latest blog from our archives asks - can we propose a manifesto for art and the sacred?

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Art and the Sacred: Towards a Manifesto - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
In this article from 1993, Brian P. Kennedy seeks the soul of art, placed within falsely constructed proximities by museums, and asks – in a world where exhibitions and art are commercialised to suit ...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Did you know that Studies has been in continuous publication for over 112 years? In this time it's released 114 volumes, 454 issues, and hundreds of articles, reviews, poems, and pieces of miscellany and scholarship into the world.
September 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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A Sunday-evening read with our latest archival blog:

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The Political Currency of Irish Racism - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
In this article from 2002, which feels stiflingly, upsettingly pertinent to the Ireland of 2025, author Bryan Fanning addresses the ‘usefulness’ of racism in politicss and the re-codification of racis...
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September 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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An interesting looking conference taking place next week! ⬇️
September 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Seeking a rainy Saturday read?This week's blog is from our very first issue, and despite dating from 1912, it directly shares themes with Summer 2025 and the article “MAGA: On Making Athens Great Again, Then and Now”: power, corruption, and 'might is right'

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The Modern Problem of Athenian Imperialism - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
This week’s archival blog is again from the first volume of Studies, however this time it hails from the very first issue. While archival – first printed in 1912 – it has direct links to Studies curre...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Did you know Studies is on Instagram and LinkedIn? Connect with us there for updates on future events and upcoming editions!

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August 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Studies Summer 2025 ("Undoing the Order of Things - Trump's Second Term") and editor Dermot Roantree's article "J.D. Vance, Catholicism, and the Postliberal Turn" mentioned in Paul Gillespe's piece for yesterday's @irishtimes.com

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August 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
A young Howard Zinn stands in front of a bookshelf full of books; a sign behind him says "Strike!"
August 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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As a journal Studies maintains a broad cultural focus. Poetry often features in our volumes as a standalone publication in its own right.
August 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM