Recent Articles

Liam Mac Amhlaigh || It takes a certain kind of person to live a life as if the Irish language were not just a heritage language but a daily, spiritual, intellectual, cultural force. Manchán Magan was such a person.

Carmel Gallagher || Reflecting on the demise of traditional Catholicism in Ireland, theologian Fr Vincent Twomey, expressed the view that the greatest achievement of the Catholic Church is perhaps its missionary tradition.

Bryan Fanning || In Ireland, many of the most vulnerable migrants depend on forms of informal community welfare. Much of this has been instigated by faith-based communities and organisations

Joseph Rivera | Outside of the act of student protest, the formal political position of universities in the US typically remains underground. For as long as I can remember, the identity politics of specific parties in state or federal government has not actively affected or shaped a university’s public mission or curricular priority. Harvard or […]

Laurie Reilly, Conchúr Ó Maonaigh, and Jennie C. Stephens | Industry funding of universities in Ireland has become a normalised and incentivised feature of the Irish higher education system. The Irish government’s higher education policies have actively sought to promote collaboration with industry. In response, higher education institutions have begun scaling up their efforts to […]

John Coakley | While the political car crash associated with the Irish Boundary Commission in 1925 passed quickly into oblivion, its consequences lived on. The agreement between the Free State, Northern Irish, and British governments on 3 December 1925 to bury the commission’s report put the commission out of its misery but also ‘formally entrenched […]

Jennie C. Stephens After more than thirty years working on climate and energy research and teaching in higher education, I am increasingly concerned that universities are obstructing rather than facilitating transformative social change toward more just, healthy and climate-stable futures. Although many universities claim to be addressing humanity’s biggest challenges, the corporatisation of higher education […]

Jennie C. Stephens || The competitive, individualistic, technology-focused, profit-seeking culture that so many universities reinforce is limiting society’s capacity to transform away from worsening ecological destruction and human suffering.