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1. Catholicism and the Catholic Church in Contemporary Ireland : The Church-State Relationship, the Societal Role of Catholicism and the Applicability of Secularisation Theory in the Aftermath of the Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studierAbstract : Abstract Throughout the period of 1972-2022 and previously, Catholicism has been a robust aspect of Irish national culture and identity and the institutional Catholic church has enjoyed a degree of sociopolitical influence and extensive co-operation with the Irish state. This has led to characterisations of Ireland as an outlier amidst secularisation patterns worldwide, whilst the 2009 scandals following the publication of the Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports into clerical sexual abuse have led to claims of the collapse of Irish Catholicism and the church. READ MORE
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2. The Semantics of Old Irish Landscape Vocabulary : Differentiation and Cognitive Linguistic Categorization
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This project investigates the cognitive linguistic categories that structure the Old Irish landscape lexicon. The semantics of basic landscape vocabulary are differentiated based on collocate analysis and close reading of relevant text passages. READ MORE
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3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The ‘Social Death’ of Institutionalized Women and Children and the ‘Social Amnesia’ of Irish Society in the Twentieth Century, Depicted in Forensic Evidence from the Children's Mass Grave at a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway.
University essay fromAbstract : The twentieth century was a time of social and political changes. Victims of trauma, genocide, massacres and abuse in a largely Post-Colonial era would increasingly gain recognition and places of suffering, death and pain would become places of remembrance. READ MORE
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4. The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. : An analysis of the relationship between the use of undercover policingand violent labor conflict.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This paper evaluates the role of private policing in the patterns of violence that were prevalent in the mining regions of eastern Pennsylvania during the 1860s and 1870s, and which were attributed to an Irish secret society called the “Molly Maguires”. This topic has long been subject to academic and political controversy, and the use of agent provocateur tactics by the Pinkerton agency has been strongly suggested, but never conclusively proven. READ MORE
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5. The Digital Transformation of Irish Charities
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Charities play an essential role in Irish society. People benefit from support in health and social services, from social housing to specific health related organisations. READ MORE
