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Martyn Frampton Book Review – Legion of the Rearguard: New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on November 8, 2011 in Book Reviews, Dealing with the Past, Irish politics, NI Politics, Sinn Fein, Terrorism

I’ve reviewed Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism, on the Slugger O’Toole blog.

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Reflections on The End of Irish Catholicism

By on October 28, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Social Justice, Victims

I’ve had several people ask me if I would be blogging about the talk I gave last week for the Queen’s University Religious Studies Research Forum, titled ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ The material I presented at the talk is still very much ‘work in progress,’ but I’m posting the [...]

Against Remembrance? New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on October 25, 2011 in Book Reviews, Dealing with the Past, Irish politics, NI Politics, Peace Studies, Social Justice, Victims

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Against Remembrance: Seminar and Book by David Rieff.’ It includes my reflections on Rieff’s seminar, given last week at Trinity College Dublin.

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Ecumenical Matters: Talk at Queen’s on Thursday 20 October and Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism Seminar Series Starts Sat 22 October

By on October 18, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Muslim Christian Relations, NI Politics, Victims

As regular readers of this blog may know, I’m giving a lecture at Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday 20 October titled, ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ The talk kicks off at 5.15 pm in the Peter Froggart Centre and is the first event in Queen’s new Religious Studies Research Forum. [...]

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Learning from 1798: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations – New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on August 9, 2011 in Book Reviews, Dealing with the Past, Irish politics, NI Politics, Victims

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Learning from 1798: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations.’ It is commentary based on a review of Tom Dunne’s controversial book, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798.

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From Crisis to Hope: Can Churches Contribute to Northern Ireland’s Election Debate? New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on April 14, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Economy, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Morality, NI Politics, Social Justice

I have new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘From Crisis to Hope: Can Churches Contribute to Northern Ireland’s Election Debate?’ It examines the issues raised at a discussion today at Springfield Road Methodist Church/Forthspring Community Centre on a document from the Council for Justice and Peace of the Irish Episcopal Conference, ‘From Crisis to [...]

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Defending What Doesn’t Work?: Catholic Education–New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on April 12, 2011 in Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Morality

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Defending What Doesn’t Work?: Catholic Education.’ It’s a response to plans to transfer the patronage of 50% of all primary schools in the Republic of Ireland from church control to civil society. (Image sourced on flickr, by WELS.net)

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Is Irish Catholicism an Irrelevant Minority Culture? New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on February 23, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Victims

I have a new post called, ‘Is Irish Catholicism and Irrelevant Minority Culture? Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s Cambridge Speech,’ on the Slugger O’Toole blog.

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Continuing Education Course on Ethical Remembering: Acknowledging the Decade of Change & Violence, 1912-1922 Begins 19 January

By on January 16, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Irish politics, Morality, NI Politics, Social Justice

A six-week continuing education course on ‘Ethical Remembering: Acknowledging the Decade of Change & Violence, 1912-1922,’ begins next week at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast. More information can be found in my post on the Slugger O’Toole blog.

How Many People Will be Left in Ireland at This Time Next Year?

By on December 9, 2010 in Economy, Irish politics

You can read my post about the latest polls on Irish people intending to emigrate on the Slugger O’Toole blog. One of the more shocking figures is a poll by TCD’s student newspaper, Trinity News, that claims 85% of TCD students plan to emigrate.