Autumn 2011 Editorial
Editor: Fergus O'Donoghue SJ
Enda Kenny could have made a great speech on 20th July 2011, when he addressed the Dail about the Cloyne Report into the failures in child protection in that diocese. The mood in the country was angry and we were descending into yet another cycle of recrimination, with no attempt at healing and not even a hint of forgiveness. That was the perfect time for a government leader to encourage reflection, rather than merely articulate public anger......
An Irish Morality for an Irish Problem :
Mary Lou McDonald; Mary Travers and Mary McArdle
Article by Pól Ó Muirí from Autumn 2011 issue
On Tuesday 7th of June, 2011, Sinn Féin T.D. Mary Lou McDonald, spoke in the Dail on the issue of the Magdalene laundries. She roundly criticised the coalition Government of Fine Gael and Labour for its handling of the matter. The quote is worth giving in detail: “I wish to raise the damning criticism of the State’s failure to protect women who were detained and abused in the Magdalene laundries. This criticism is contained in the United Nations Committee Against Torture report on
Autumn 2011 issue
Among the articles Autumn 2011 :
‘Merkel’s Folly’:
Decentralising
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From the Archives: Studies commemorations
- A New Irish Identity
- Studies 1912-1962
- Irish Writing
- 75 Years
- 100 years
- Dr Fitzgerald
A NEW IRISH IDENTITY
[Studies, Vol. 75, No. 300 (Winter, 1986), pp. 357-360]
Editorial
It was a bold undertaking for a group of professors and graduates of the National University of Ireland to launch a new Journal in 1912 dedicated to serious intellectual analysis of major issues in letters, Philosophical Subjects and the Sciences. Given the pressures on Irish journals it is something of a pleasant surprise that, seventy-five years later, we are able to launch the 300th issue of Studies. It is a good reason to celebrate and even to engage in a little gentle trumpet blowing...
STUDIES 1912-1962
[Studies, Vol. 51, No. 201 (Spring 1962), pp. 1-8]
by James Meenan
In February 1911 the last issue of the New Ireland Review appeared. A valedictory note recalled seventeen years of successful existence and added that: 'we are content to have held the field until larger and better-equipped forces could occupy it'. The metaphor seems unduly martial for so pacific an age, but it was no less justified than the pride of survival that it expressed. The New Ireland, like the Lyceum before it, was a phase in the University struggle. Both journals looked back to Newman's Atlantis. They were a portion of the Jesuit achievement in the old University College. Now, in 1911, that College had been reconstructed into something that approached Catholic claims. It had passed out of Jesuit control (though fifty years later the new College still seems permeated by the memory of what went before). But there was still work to do...
FIFTY YEARS OF IRISH WRITING
[Studies, Vol. 51, No. 201 (Spring 1962), pp. 93-105]
by Seán O'Faoláin
When the editor of Studies kindly invited me to write an article on the fortunes of Irish literature over the past fifty years I presumed that the main interest of anything I might have to say would lie in the fact that I am an Irish writer who was born in 1900, which implies, I supopose, that, within the limitations of my personal oddities and idiosyncrasies, what I here say cannot fail to be, at any rate to some degree, representative of the views of the generation after Yeats...
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF STUDIES
[Studies, Vol. 75, No. 300, Winter 1986]
by Brian P. Kennedy
It is a remarkable achievement for any periodical to reach its 300th issue after seventy-five years of continuous publication. But Studies has long been acknowledged as a distinguished contributor to Irish intellectual life. Seán Lemass held the view that Studies had provided 'articles forming the basis of discussion which has sometimes determined the future of our country. A review of the importance and status of Studies...is important to the development of the nation'...
Studies was launched in March 1912. It was, and still is, published by the Jesuits. A catholic intent was signalled by its subtitle: An Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy and Science.
The stated object of Studies, set out in a foreword to the first issue, was to ‘give publicity to work of a scholarly type, extending over many important branches of study, and appealing to a wider circle of cultured readers than strictly specialist journals could be expected to reach’.
Seeking a National Purpose by Garret Fitzgerald
Studies, Vol 53, Number 212, Winter 1964, pp. 337-351
‘What sort of Ireland do we want to see here in ten years’ time?’ asked the Editor of Studies in the Summer 1963 issue. To this question he sought an answer from his readers, or at any rate contributions towards an answer. None has yet appeared, and it would be a pity if a promising discussion on a topic of fundamental concern to all our people failed to get off the ground. In the hope of provoking further discussion this contribution is offered: it is not so much an attempt at a direct answer to the Editor’s question, as an effort to examine some of the ideas and ideals that might usefully be borne in mind in seeking to blueprint the future of our society.
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