Autumn 2024: Seamus Heaney: Reaching for the Sacred

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The Autumn 2024 issue of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review contains 132 pages of articles, poetry and book reviews. Below is the table of contents.

• Editorial

Articles

• Poet to Priest-Poet: Eight Letters from Seamus Heaney to Peter Steele SJ | Gerald O’Collins SJ and Manfred Cain
• ‘Ave, pater, atque vale’: The Heaney–Steele Letters | Eugene O’Brien
• ‘Crosshatched’ Connectivity, Vulnerability and Creative Renewal in Seamus Heaney’s | Catriona Clutterbuck
• A Lavish Talent for Friendship: Heaney the Letter Writer | Patrick Crotty 
• Seamus Heaney’s Second Life | Thomas O’Grady 

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• The Priest as Sacred Figure: Reflections on Violence, Religion,and the Holy in Twentieth-Century Ireland | Liam Kelly OFM
• Four Poems | Mary O’Donnell
• Terence O’Reilly: A Scholarly Life | Tom O’Reilly
• Rescuing the Common Good from Integralism | Patrick Riordan SJ
• Poem: ‘Heirloom’ | Liam Aungier 
• Dublin City Walls and Defences, c. 1170–c. 1317 | Declan O’Keeffe 

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Book Reviews

• Marilynne Robinson, Reading Genesis | Kevin Hargaden
• Peter Sirr, The Swerve | Mary O’Donnell
• J. Anthony Gaughan, Some Occasional Writings, 2003–2024 Stephen Collins

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