
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: 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