Irish history

Ireland’s missed opportunity

February 14, 2023

JOHN BIRD [STUDIES] :: AE (George Russell), a contributor to Ireland's cultural revival, lamented the destruction wrought by 'the champions of physical violence'.

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Irish Jesuits and the London IRA, 1921

February 8, 2021

Damien Burke :: Archival background on Fr William McElligott SJ, whose IRA service medal for the War of Independence years was gifted to the Irish Province recently

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The Bermingham chalice on show

September 24, 2020

The Jesuits in Galway are marking the 400th anniversary of the Bermingham chalice this year, an ornate artifact gifted to Fr John Bermingham in 1620

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Studies winter issue: Ireland 1918-2018

December 5, 2018

The winter issue of Studies commemorates two centenary events – the 1918 armistice and the first Dáil

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Latest Studies marks Reformation anniversary

December 20, 2017

There is some truth in the idea of the Tudor Reformation as a kind of 16th-century religious Brexit, according to articles in the latest Studies

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