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The School of Humanities, (Scoil na nDaonnachtaí) which was established in 2007, brings together the Departments of English, History, and Philosophy, the Centre for Irish Studies, the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, and specialist fields in Journalism and Old and Middle Irish.
The School of Humanities is the largest of the five schools which constitute the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. It has 60 full-time teaching and research staff, over 3,000 postgraduate and undergraduate students, including some 700 from overseas, and every year it is host also to various visiting scholars and creative writers and artists. Our School's community is a vibrant one, thriving on intellectual exchange within and between traditional subject areas and newer fields of enquiry and practice.
Broadly speaking, the common concern in the School of Humanities is human experience. From different perspectives, we address ourselves to humankind's diverse history, traditions and creativeness. Our methods and interests vary a great deal, but the environment in which we work is one of co-operation and mutual respect.
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Recent Submissions
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Reimagining an Irish City: I am Belfast
(Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), 2017-03)An early shot in Mark Cousin's I am Belfast lingers on a very unusual and unexpected landscape, what appears to be an icy vista reflected in water, with clouds drifting by in the distance. Where s this our narrator asks. ... -
'And like the sea God was silent': Multivalent water imagery in Silence
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Guidance for developing ethical research projects involving children
(Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 2012)The aim of this guidance paper, produced by a working group on behalf of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA), is to advise on good practice principles for undertaking research with children (defined in ... -
The Catholic reformation in seventeenth-century Ireland: Vincent de Paul's Missionaries in Munster
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Catholic missionaries in a territory of Reunion: The French Crown and the Congregation of the Mission in Sedan, 1642-57
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Making Bishops in Tridentine France: The Episcopal Ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus
(Cambridge University Press, 2003-05-13)The experience of Jean-Pierre Camus, a reforming bishop in seventeenth-century France, highlights the problematic ambivalences present within French Catholic reform after the Council of Trent: the persistent tensions between ... -
Revisiting sacred propaganda: the Holy Bishop in the seventeenth-century Jansenist quarrel
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, prelates such as Borromeo of Milan and de Sales of Geneva, began to reinvigorate this hierarchical office, offering models of episcopal government, discipline and pastorate ... -
Slavery on the frontier: the report of a French missionary on mid-seventeenth-century Tunis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This document is a report sent in 1654 by Jean Le Vacher, member of the Congregation of the Mission, vicar apostolic of the Holy See and acting French consul in Tunis, to the cardinals of the Congregation for the Propagation ... -
Re-thinking Missionary Catholicism for the Early Modern Era
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Vincent de Paul: The making of a Catholic Dévot
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)[No abstract available] -
Irish entrants to the Congregation of the Mission, 1625-60
(Saint Patrick's College Maynooth & NUI Maynooth, 2009)[No abstract available] -
Venues for clerical formation in Catholic Reformation Paris: Vincent de Paul and the Tuesday Conference and Company
(Western Society for French History, 2010)In the eulogy he delivered at Vincent de Paul's memorial service in November 1660, the bishop of Puy, Henri Maupas du Tour, praised his subject for having "virtually changed the face of the Church by Conferences, by ... -
Vincent de Paul: The principles and practices of government, 1625-60
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Vincent de Paul as mentor
(Vincentian Studies Institute of the United States, 2008)In September 1626, Vincent de Paul and three companions signed an act of association that described the common work that they had been performing over a period of several years and presented a promisE' from each man that ... -
A Catholic model of martyrdom in the Post-Reformation era: the Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)By the seventeenth century, episcopal martyrdom was an established reality and ideal throughout the Catholic church. Bishops could pay homage to the celebrated prelates of the early church who had gone bravely to their ... -
'Fathers, Leaders, Kings': episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French School
(Taylor & Francis, 2002)In their drive to ‘sanctify’ the clergy, seventeenth-century French clerical reformers developed highly sophisticated and influential theologies of both priesthood and episcopacy. This article traces the development of the ... -
Introduction to 'Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France'
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Woman's Life magazine and women’s lives in Ireland in the 1950s
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The detention of voluntary and involuntary patients in mental health facilities: the ethical considerations
(Department of Health, 2015)It has been estimated that one in four people will experience some form of mental ill-health in their lifetime.1 This can range from feelings of anxiety, to depression, to more severe mental health problems, such as ...