Irish history

Studies: Changing Catholic culture

September 27, 2022

The autumn Studies reflects on the seismic shift in Irish Catholicism over recent decades, in the light of Derek Scally’s The Best Catholics in the World.

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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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