Ireland
Studies: Tributes to Manchán Magan
December 19, 2025
The winter 2025 issue of Studies commemorates Manchán Magan, the writer, documentary maker, and broadcaster who died on 2 October 2025.
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Manchán Magan’s legacy is secure
December 19, 2025
Dermot Roantree :: Thanks to Manchán Magan's books, film productions, and infectious love of Irish land and language, his legacy is secure.
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Has the Irish development model run its course?
January 16, 2025
The main theme of the winter 2024 issue of Studies is the negative social consequences of the Irish development model of heavy reliance on Foreign Direct Investment.
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Winter issue of Studies launched in RIA
December 18, 2024
The winter 2024 issue of Studies was launched at the end of the annual lecture of the Nevin Economic Research Institute in the Royal Irish Academy, on 5 December.
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What will it mean to be a Catholic?
February 20, 2024
BILL TONER SJ :: There is no disguising the fact that the number of priests in Ireland is declining at an alarming rate. What lies ahead?
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1923: Ireland joins the League of Nations
October 25, 2023
STUDIES :: One hundred years ago, the Irish Free State – not even one full year in existence – joined the League of Nations.
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Studies: Art, literature and national identity
September 26, 2023
The autumn 2023 issue of 'Studies' has as its main theme the "web of indebtedness" into which Irish art and literature is woven.
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A key to understanding Mary Lavin
June 7, 2023
STUDIES :: An essay from winter 1963 by Augustine Martin, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, on the great short story writer Mary Lavin.
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The re-birth of Patrick Kavanagh
March 29, 2023
JOHN BIRD :: A look at Kavanagh's fascinating essay in 'Studies' (1959) about his transformation on the banks of the Grand Canal after his cancer treatment.
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Thinking ahead to Ireland’s future
March 7, 2023
DERMOT ROANTREE :: What kind of Ireland do we want in 2030? Many concrete issues need attention, but most of all we must ask from where we will draw our...
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