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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · 16h

'What the Young Saint Said', one of two poems by Gerard Smyth published in Studies Autumn 2025

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Image depicts a poem, 'What the Young Saint Said', by Dublin poet Gerard Smyth, which is published in the current Autumn 2025 edition of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review.

Poem below:

for John F Deane
Let God be God, the young saint said,
not Roman, not Greek,
or belonging only to pilgrim and conqueror
but the God of all things: the Judas Tree
and hornet’s nest, songthrush and garden slug.

Let God be God, not the bearer of so many names
or the judge who sits in the court of angels.
Let him not be the gatekeeper at the Gates of Wrath,
the tormenter of an innocent conscience.

Let God be God, the young saint said,
not the cause of holy wars
or one who sends his proxies to rob our mirth
but a God unbothered by heresies of dogma,

His presence heard in the singer’s voice,
sound of the orchestra, the iron gate
when it creaks, the bells on Paternoster Street.

Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn 2025's opening article, from @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, is a stark challenge to the university sector that asks it to utilise its resources and influence for the public good, and move society towards 'a more just, ecologically-healthy, climate-stable future'

Available now @ link in bio.

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · 5d

What becomes a university in an Age of Crises?

Editor of Studies, Dermot Roantree, explores in his Autumn 2025 editorial:

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · 10d

Studies Autumn 2025, "The University in an Age of Crises, Challenges and Responses" - available now in select bookshops and online from studiesirishreview.ie

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · 12d

"The museum is indeed a secular temple, for like a house of God, it is properly a place of wonder":

The latest blog from our archives asks - can we propose a manifesto for art and the sacred?

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Art and the Sacred: Towards a Manifesto - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

In this article from 1993, Brian P. Kennedy seeks the soul of art, placed within falsely constructed proximities by museums, and asks – in a world where exhibitions and art are commercialised to suit ...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Sep 9

We regularly select interesting and timely articles from this vast archive for publication on our website - perfect reading for a rainy evening (if we do say so ourselves):

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Archives - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Sep 9

Did you know that Studies has been in continuous publication for over 112 years? In this time it's released 114 volumes, 454 issues, and hundreds of articles, reviews, poems, and pieces of miscellany and scholarship into the world.

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Sep 7

A Sunday-evening read with our latest archival blog:

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The Political Currency of Irish Racism - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

In this article from 2002, which feels stiflingly, upsettingly pertinent to the Ireland of 2025, author Bryan Fanning addresses the ‘usefulness’ of racism in politicss and the re-codification of racis...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

An interesting looking conference taking place next week! ⬇️

Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are delighted to release the full conference programme for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians. Full details and registration available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities

The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 30

Seeking a rainy Saturday read?This week's blog is from our very first issue, and despite dating from 1912, it directly shares themes with Summer 2025 and the article “MAGA: On Making Athens Great Again, Then and Now”: power, corruption, and 'might is right'

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The Modern Problem of Athenian Imperialism - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

This week’s archival blog is again from the first volume of Studies, however this time it hails from the very first issue. While archival – first printed in 1912 – it has direct links to Studies curre...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you know Studies is on Instagram and LinkedIn? Connect with us there for updates on future events and upcoming editions!

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🔵 Find us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/stud...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

Studies Summer 2025 ("Undoing the Order of Things - Trump's Second Term") and editor Dermot Roantree's article "J.D. Vance, Catholicism, and the Postliberal Turn" mentioned in Paul Gillespe's piece for yesterday's @irishtimes.com

Read now at studiesirishreview.ie

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Aug 24

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn

A young Howard Zinn stands in front of a bookshelf full of books; a sign behind him says "Strike!"

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 20

In this week's archival blog, from 2018, Dr Celia G Kenny addresses the concept of protest through poetry, and the poet's ability to speak truth to power, through the work of Israeli poet #TuviaRuebner:

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Theology, Poetry, and Protest in Israel - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

In this article from 2018, Dr Celia G Kenny addresses the concept of protest through poetry and the poet’s ability to speak truth to power and act as a mirror to contemporary society. She focuses on I...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 20

As a journal Studies maintains a broad cultural focus. Poetry often features in our volumes as a standalone publication in its own right.

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 15

This week's archival blog is from 1912 - the very first volume of Studies.

Author D.J. Finn writes in defence of archaeology as a scientific discipline - with arguments that might be frustratingly familiar to any modern reader interested in the field.

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On the Place of Archaeology - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

In this article from the very first volume of Studies, author Daniel (D.J.) Finn, SJ, writes in defence of archaeology as a scientific discipline, against a public that perceived of it as something in...

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.

www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

@muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social
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35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities

The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History

www.eventbrite.com

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 12

One such article is Kevin Williams' (of @dcuioe.bsky.social) "Nationhood and Europe: The Need for Nuance".

Williams reflects on the so-called 'cultural unity' of Europe, prompted by the global rise in exclusivist nationalism.

Read now at the 🔗 in bio.

Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not all articles are focused on the U.S., however - instead looking towards a Europe that cannot afford to recuse itself and must acknowledge that the same populist far-right movements that surround Trump have taken root in home soil.

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 12

Studies Summer 2025 focuses in large part on the evolving political situation in the U.S. under Trump's second term.

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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, Sudan, Somalia – these are just some of the countries currently suffering the devastation of war, societal breakdown, and population displacement. Apart from this, there are few c...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Aug 6

In this week's archival blog, Herbert Thurston breaks down the theories of scholar Margaret Murray, who claimed new truths behind European paganism and the witch trials of the Early Modern period.

From 1922: www.studiesirishreview.ie/2025/08/05/o...

On Witchcraft - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

In this article from 1922, author Herbert Thurston provides a scathing rebuttal of Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology – in large part against her dubious use o...

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Jul 30

Author Violet Conolly is the focus of this week's archival blog, with her 1937 article 'On Revisiting Soviet Russia':

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Soviet Russia Revisited - Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review

In 1928, Irish author and academic Violet Conolly published ‘Two Months in Soviet Russia’ between December 1928 and March 1929. Broad in scope, the author provided her first-hand experiences as she tr...

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · Jul 18

my latest in Commonweal

Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · Jul 18

"In hindsight, it’s clear that the first Trump presidency was not an aberration but the prelude to a turning point in American history."

@massimofaggioli.bsky.social on Leo's American challenge:
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Leo’s American Challenge

Leo's election is not only a source of pride for American Catholics—it might also be a much-needed unifying element in the U.S. Church.

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Jul 11

Dermot Roantree pulls the threads of postliberal American Catholicism in his Summer 2025 article "JD Vance, Catholicism, and the Postliberal Turn", rejecting Vance's association of his conversion with the social theory of René Girard for a closer alignment with the 'darker' theory of Carl Schmitt:

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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · Jul 5

Mark Garavan(@atu-ie.bsky.social @feasta1998.bsky.social) invokes philosopher Byung-Chul Han (@byungchulhan.bsky.social) as he asks - in a 'careless' culture that facilitated the rise of Trump, how can we return to wonder, caring, and recognition of the Other in ourselves and ourselves in the Other?

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