
Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: St Anne: Apocryphal Maternal Theology and the Forgotten Matriarch
St Anne: Apocryphal Maternal Theology and the Forgotten In this final Advent reflection, I turn now to St Anne, mother of Mary and grandmother of

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Anna the Prophetess: The Politics of Presence in the Temple
Anna the Prophetess: The Politics of Presence in the Temple (Luke 2:36–38) This reflection is the third in my four-part Advent series, which seeks to

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Elizabeth: Prophetic Blessing from the Domestic Threshold (Luke 1)
This reflection is the second in my four-part Advent series, which seeks to recover the often-overlooked women at the heart of salvation history. I turn

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

Dr James Heaney, Republicanism, Literature, and Revolution in Ireland and Spain, 1913-39
“A map of the world that does not include utopia is not even worth glancing at”, Oscar Wilde claimed. One reason why utopia doesn’t appear

Research Week 2022
Carlow College Research Hub is delighted to host Research Week 2022. Research Week celebrates and acknowledges the active research efforts of staff and students, as

Publication of Dr Ida Milne’s Article, ‘Changing Narratives of ‘That’ Pandemic
Congratulations to history lecture Dr Ida Milne on the publication of her article ‘Changing Narratives of ‘That’ Pandemic: Re-Engaging with Oral Histories for the Centenary