
Deconstructing the Solitary Creative Genius by Dr Morgan Cawley Buckley
My nephew once asked his father what an artist is, to which he replied ‘one who creates art’, ever the accurate literalist that my brother

‘Joyce…Ibsen…Egerton…Hamsun…Beckett…Fosse’ by Dr Eoghan Smith
The month of June sees the annual celebrations of Bloomsday, which commemorates James Joyce’s modernist masterwork Ulysses. Ulysses is a text to which I dutifully

‘To visit my mother’ (?): Returning to Ireland during the revolutionary period, 1916-1923′ by Dr Regina Donlon
During the revolutionary era, 1916-1923, a total of 21,754 Irish-born immigrants resident in the United States applied for a passport to visit Ireland. The majority

‘Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision and the State that we are in’ by Stephanie Hanlon
Conference on Direct Provision Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision and the State that we are in Background to the Conference: On Friday 8th November,

‘What history tells us about health panics’ by Dr Ida Milne
Adults in huddles, worriedly discussing a mystery disease the newspapers have been warning is on the way. Children eavesdropping, sensing the fear that is being hidden

Dr Simon Workman, ‘There Are Darker Kingdoms: Mapping Modernity in Kevin Barry’s Short Fiction
Kevin Barry – Ireland and the End Times If, as theologian Paul Tillich suggested, the early to mid-twentieth century period can be deemed the ‘Age

‘Objects and Identity – reflections on medieval ‘things’’ by Dr Margaret Murphy
I first became interested in the relationships between medieval people and the inanimate objects they owned as a postgraduate student when I came across a

‘Covid and the Social Contract’ by Dr Noel Kavanagh
In 1972 the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai was asked what he thought of the French revolution of 1789. His reply was simply, ‘too early to