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Travellers and the Irish State

Bryan Fanning’s 2015 article traces how Irish State policy sought to assimilate Travellers, particularly after the 1963 Commission on Itinerancy, and examines the persistence of prejudice and exclusion in modern Ireland.

Tom Garvin on National Identity in Ireland

Tom Garvin argues that Irish national identity developed through major social and political changes, including land reform, mass education and Catholicism, while nationalism combined religious, cultural and political loyalties.

Garret FitzGerald on the Irish Electoral System

Garret FitzGerald examines the 1958 proposal to replace PR-STV with first-past-the-post, outlining arguments over coalition governments, minority representation, parliamentary opposition and electoral fairness.

Mary Guckian – December Lights in Pearse Street

Poetry: Mary Guckian, ‘December Lights in Pearse Street’, Studies: An Irish Review, Vol. 98, No. 392 (Winter, 2009),

Irishmen in Palestine: 1946-48

In this extract from his 1951 article, author J. J. W. Murphy (CSsR) provides an historical background to early Irish involvement in peacekeeping efforts in Palestine; specifically during the years immediately preceding the formal establishment of the State of Israel

Memento Mori and the ‘Good Death’ in Baroque Art

Travellers and the Irish State

Tom Garvin on National Identity in Ireland

Garret FitzGerald on the Irish Electoral System

Mary Guckian – December Lights in Pearse Street

Irishmen in Palestine: 1946-48

Memento Mori and the ‘Good Death’ in Baroque Art

Zen and the West

Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Social Philosophy’

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