Summer 2026: The Suffering of Innocents in War and Beyond

Description

The Summer 2026 issue of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review contains 168 pages of articles, poetry and book reviews. It can be ordered in two formats:

• Digital: Read online using Flipbook online reader, plus downloadable pdf
• Digital and Print: A printed copy will be sent to your address. This also includes the digital content as above.

Below is the table of contents.

Editorial

Articles

• Monopolising Victimhood | David Neuhaus SJ 
• The US-Israel War against Iran: The Politicisation of Religion | James J. Kelly
• Just War and the Vulnerable: Women and Children | Tobias Winright 
• Secondary Victims: Exploring Collateral Poverty and the Iranian Energy Shock | Kevin Hargaden and Ciara Murphy 
• History during Wartime | Neasa MacErlean
• Suffer the Little Children: The Fate of Unbaptised Infants and the Development of Doctrine | Dermot Roantree 
• Poem: ‘The Blood of the Children Is Crying to Me from the Earth’ | John F. Deane 
• Beyond Binaries: The Psychiatric Prisoner as Victim | Keith Adams

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• Gus Martin: Between Hill and Lake – A Memoir | Breffni Martin
• Why Irish Catholicism Became Anglicised after the Reformation | Kevin Whelan 
• Waking James Joyce: A Dublin Vignette | Thomas O’Grady 
• ‘When you write very, very slowly, the song of the letters hums in the silence’: An Interview with Jane Sullivan, Calligrapher | Susanne Jennings 
• Where Now for Citizens’ Assemblies? | Edmond Grace SJ 
• Concentrated Wealth: How the ‘Greatest of All Plagues’ Has Deeply Infected Global Politics | Peadar Kirby [Review article]

Book Reviews

• John F. Deane, Jonah and Me; James Harpur, A Place Where Ireland is Invisible | Thomas McCarthy
• Paddy Bushe, Uncertain Passage; Gerard Smyth, The Turn for Ithaca | Ciarán O’Rourke
• Brendan Leahy, What God Expects of the Church, Recent Experience, Theology and Spirituality of Synodality | Gerry O’Hanlon SJ

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