Dr James Hoctor (University of Kent): ‘From PhD Researcher to Podcaster’
The idea of creating a podcast series was something I had being flirting with during my doctoral studies; however, this was curtailed by the realities
Nicole Burke (TCD): ‘Feminism, neoliberal discourse and the ‘care crisis’ in Ireland’
I fell in love with feminist theory during my time in Carlow College, St. Patrick’s when I took an elective called ‘Feminist Political Theory’ with
Judy Bolger (TCD): ‘A Hopeless Case’: Constructs of Early Twentieth-century Irish Impoverished Motherhood
In July 1907, Dublin mother Catherine Smith was ‘charged with grossly neglecting her four children, one of them an infant’ and she was subsequently sentenced
Eva Burke (TCD): Reading Domestic Noir in the Global Pandemic
It’s safe to say that 2020 hasn’t lived up to expectations for most of us. As the global pandemic continues to thwart plans and dominate
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
Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Rethinking Advent through Hidden Matriarchs
This Advent, I begin a four-part reflection series focusing on the often-overlooked figures in the Christmas story. As we light the Advent candles each Sunday,
Food Security and Insecurity: Lessons from medieval Irish towns.
The terms ‘food security’ and ‘food insecurity’ have been in use since the 1970s and were formally defined by the first World Food Summit in
Pope Leo XIV and the Generative Age: Tradition, Technology, and the Next Chapter in the Catholic Social Tradition
Thursday’s election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, American by birth and shaped by his many years of missionary ministry in Peru, as Pope Leo XIV