Irish Century

Bryan Fanning is a Professor in the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Quest for Modern Ireland: The Battle of Ideas 1912-1986 (2008), New Guests of the Irish Nation (2009) and Immigration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland (2011).

• BRYAN FANNING: Introduction: Studies 1912-2012; STEPHEN COLLINS: John Redmond (2009); PATRICK PEARSE: Some Aspects of Irish Literature (1913); ARTHUR E. CLERY: Votes for Youth (1915); DENIS GWYNN: Thomas Kettle 1880-1916 (1966); SEAN F. LEMASS: I Remember 1916 (1966); FRANCIS SHAW SJ: The Canon of Irish History: A Challenge (1972); HENRY V. GILL SJ: The Fate of the Irish Flag at Ypres (1919); GEORGE RUSSELL (AE): Lessons of Revolution (1923); FINOLA KENNEDY: The Suppression of the Carrigan Report (2000); JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: National Self-Sufficiency (1933); DANIEL A. BINCHY: Adolf Hitler (1933); DERMOT KEOGH: The Jesuits and the 1937 Constitution (1989); MICHAEL TIERNEY: Daniel O'Connell and the Irish Past (1938); DANIEL A. BINCHY: Reply to Tierney (1938); PATRICK LYNCH: The Economist and Public Policy (1953); DONAL BARRINGTON: Uniting Ireland (1957); SEAN O'FAOLAIN: Fifty Years of Irish Writing (1962); AUGUSTINE MARTIN: Inherited Dissent: The Dilemma of the Irish Writer (1965); JOHN BRADY SJ: Pluralism and Northern Ireland (1978); JOHN SWEENEY: The Challenge of Social Inequality (1983); RAYMOND CROTTY: T. K. Whitaker (1984); MARGARET MAC CURTAIN: Moving Statues and Irishwomen (1987); TOM GARVIN: Reflections on Current Discontents (1989); TONY FAHEY: Growth and Decline of Churchly Religion (1995); EAMON MAHER: Interview with John McGahern (2001); MARY KENNY: Forty Years On (2003); NEIL SOUTHERN: Paisleyism: A Theological Inquiry (2004); FERGUS O'DONOGHUE SJ: The Doghouse No Longer Feels Lonely (2008-9); BRYAN FANNING: Immigration and Social Cohesion (2009); SEAMUS MURPHY SJ: No Cheap Grace (2010); Index.

'Since its foundation in 1912, Studies, the Irish Jesuit quarterly journal, has clocked up 400 essays and published about 3,000 essays, arguable becoming the most important Catholic periodical read by iris intellectuals. Specialising in social issues, philosophy, history and economics, it has provided a forum for analysis of these subjects, not just in Ireland but also in continental Europe. This centenary collection, incorporating 31 of the articles, is a worthy tribute to the journal's endurance, quality and relevance, as well as being a handsomely designed and accessible overview of the manner in which, during its first 100 year, Studies has recorded and fostered discussion about some of the key milestones and changes in Irish society. - The range and quality of the articles chosen is, overall, impressive.' Irish Times, 28 July 2012