Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland is the first major book to explore the dynamic religious
landscape of contemporary Ireland, north and south, and to analyse the island's religious …

Using a comparative-historical framework, this article examines how religious organizational
responses to a shared stigmatizing scandal, arising from the sexual abuse of children by …

This study explores the school-based experiences of a sample of students of minority faith or
minority worldview attending Post-Primary schools with a Catholic ethos. The primary aim of …

From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional
power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated …

Since the 1990s audiences in Ireland have witnessed the walls of state and religious
institutions being cracked open by notable television broadcasts. While it would be possible …

The Catholic Church worldwide is struggling with a scandal of clerical sexual abuse of
children. As result the Catholic Church globally has lost millions of members in the last …

In Ireland the traditional family, encompassing two heterosexual married parents with
biological children, has undergone dramatic reconfiguration in recent decades. Indeed one …

In this thesis I examine the potential for the self-representation of an Ulster, rural, Catholic
childhood in 1950s-70s through the creative practice of writing my own memoir in the first …

1 As a genre, the short story is one which can be seen as neither/nor or both/and: it does not
have the length and scope of a novel, nor does it have the intense yet disciplined formal …

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