The marketised and securitised shaping of formal education sites in terms of risk prevention
strategies have transformed what it means to be a learner and a citizen. In this book, Karl …

What impacts does the transition from a land-based to predominantly cash-based economy
have on the fundraising strategies of religious institutions? What new opportunities does it …

The idea of an 'Irish empire'has had enduring appeal. It was a rare source of pride promoted
by politicians and churchmen during depressed periods in independent Ireland, particularly …

The impactful nineteenth-century transformations in Irish Catholicism, which Emmet Larkin
famously described in 1972 as a “devotional revolution,” have garnered scholarly attention …

A fundraising program for new churches in 1950s Cork was, in the words of Dr. William
Philbin,“the most imaginative enterprise of its kind that has been witnessed in Ireland in the …

More than seven million people left the island of Ireland during the 'long nineteenth century',
putting it at the top of the European emigration league table in that period. At more or less …

This article explores the intellectual culture of Catholic architectural production in 1950s
Ireland through the study of a church-building project in rural West Cork. It analyses the …

Scholars have long affirmed the importance of death in Irish history and culture. 1 Indeed,
argues Guy Beiner,'Modern Ireland is haunted by the memory of the dead'. 2 Recently, the …

More than 3000 Catholic churches were built in Ireland in the century after the granting of
Emancipation in 1829, with, as many historians have affirmed, a notable augmentation in the …

This thesis explores the relationship between fin-de-siècle anti-emigration propaganda and
fiction written by upper middle-class Irish women. Specifically, it examines the ways in which …