Research Profiles

Bernadette FlanaganBernadette Flanagan
 
Area of Specialisation: Gender Studies, Spirituality
Qualifications:
BA in Mathematics and Religion; Higher Diploma in Education; Higher Diploma in ICT

MA in Spirituality; PhD: Thesis: Liberty God: A Heuristic Study of Irish Urban Spirituality
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Publications (Selection)
Books:
With Wisdom Seeking God: Papers from the First European Conference on the Academic Study of Spirituality, co-edited with Una Agnew (Leuven: Peeters, 2008).

Lamplighters: Exploring Spirituality in New Contexts, co-edited with David Kelly (Dublin: Veritas, 2004).
The Spirit of the City: Voices from Dublin’s Liberties (Dublin: Veritas, 1999)
Articles:
‘Urban Spirituality: One Size Does Not Fit All’ in A. Walker, ed., Spirituality in the City (London: SPCK, 2005) 90-104.
‘Women and Social Spirituality’, in Jesuit Centre for Faith & Justice, eds, Windows on Social Spirituality (Dublin: Columba, 2003) 83 – 90.


Current Research Activities
Book Contract with Wipf and Stock for Embracing Solitude: Women, Solitude and the New Monasticisms
Member of Expert Working Group Constructing Theories of Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Study at Nijmegen Radboud University & Titus Brandsma Instituut, Netherlands

 

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Joseph Francis McCannJoe McCann
 
Area of Specialisation: Religious Education and Education
Qualifications:

Ph D (Education Administration) Teachers College Columbia University 1980
MA M Ed (Education) Teachers College Columbia University 1972
M Phil Ecum (Ecumenical Theology) Irish School of Ecumenics Dublin University (Trinity College) 1988
BA University College Dublin 1962
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Publications:
“Managing the Catholic School” and “How World Religions Teach Religion” Chapters in Kieran P. and Hession A. (Editors) Exploring Religious Education: Catholic Religious Education in an Intercultural Europe (Dublin: Veritas 2008)
Managing with Heart: Studying Community and Voluntary Services, Editor with Moya Curran, (Dublin: Veritas 2008)
“Religious Education: an Analysis of the Perspectives of the World Religions” Chapter in de Souza, M., Engebretson, K., Durka, G., et al. International Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Aspects of Education Volume One Part Two (Netherlands: Springer, 2006)
Faith Seeking Understanding: Religion and Science with Fachtna McCarthy (Dublin: Veritas 2006)
“Improving our Aim: Catholic School Ethos” Chapter in Monahan, L. and Prendergast, N. (Editors) Re-imagining the Catholic School (Dublin: Veritas 2003)
Religion and Science: Education Ethics and Policy Editor (Dublin: St Patrick’s College, 2003)
Into the Classroom: Religion and Science with Fachtna McCarthy (Dublin: Veritas, 2003)

Current Research Activities
Catholic Education
Management of Faith and Non Profit Organizations
Religious Education by and about World Faiths
Religion and Science

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Brian NolanBrian Nolan
 
Area of Specialisation: Ancient Mediterranean History and Culture
Qualifications:

BA UCD
STL Angelicum University (Rome)
LSS Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome)
STD University of Fribourg (Switzerland)


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Publications:
Peer-reviewd publications include:
The Royal Son of God (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1975)
Three article in D. Lane, etc. ed., The New Dictionary of Theology (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1987)
One article in James H. Murphy, ed., New Beginnings in Ministry (Dublin: Columba Press, 1992)
Three articles in The Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association
Two articles forthcoming in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible Vol. 5 (Abingdon Press 2009)

Current Research Activities
The gender and political dimensions of blood sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean (BC 400-AD 400) as excluding women from community leadership

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Marjorie FitzpatrickMajorie Fitzpatrick
Area of Specialisation: Research Methodology specifically Research Methods, Figurational Sociology, Sociology of Music

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Qualifications:
(a) B.Soc.Sc (Sociology, Social Admin. Psychology, Statistics) Specialist Research Methodology.
(b) M.Soc.Sc Thesis: ARE They Dimensional? A Descriptive-Explorative study of Adult Religious Education and the Religiosity of Participants.
(c) PhD. (Sociology) Thesis: Music and Power in Eighteenth-Century Court Society. (Handel’s Messiah and the Protestant Ascendancy in Dublin).
(d) MCIPD.
(e) H. Dip Ed. (Hons) English and Religion.
(f) CTG
(g) Dip. Catechetics
(h) Adult Educ in Theology

Publications:
(1) 21 Labour Availability Studies (Former Dept. of Labour) and School Leavers’ Survey. (1974-1975)
(2) HEA reports (Equality Studies UCD). (1993-1997)
(3) Induction Training in the ESRI (Institute of Personnel Development). (1972)
(4) Article “Music and Power in Eighteenth –century Court Society” in All Hallows Studies Summer 2006.
(5) Researcher contributing to Fulton, J, et al (2000) Young Catholics at the New Millennium: The Religion and Morality of Young Adults. In Western Countries.
(6) “The Hidden Agenda of Messiah”?  Issue 8 of REA: A Journal of Religion, Education and the Arts now available online at http://rea.materdei.ie

Membership:
Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel Development (Formerly Human Resource Management (CMIPD).
Member of International Sociological Association.
Member of United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE).
Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA).

Current Research Activities:
Lecturer in Research Methodology to MA and PhD Students in All Hallows. (Documentary, Qualitative, Quantitative and Action Research).
Consultant in Sociology.
Co-Ordinator of Research Methodology.
Collating MA Theses and Phd abstracts and Conclusions and Recommendations Chapters of All Hallows Students work from 1993-present.

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Kevin EganKevin Egan
 
Education and Training:
2005-2006. Advanced Diploma in Clinical Supervision (Middlesex University)
1994. Internship in Supervision of Spiritual Direction, Mercy Center Burlingame, San Francisco.
1991-1993. Doctoral Studies at Andover Newton Theological College Boston. D. Min (Hons.) Psychology and Clinical Studies.
Thesis: Interpersonal Skills Training for Ministry: Testing a Program.
1991-1993. Internship at United Pastoral Counseling Centers. Fulfilled requirements for membership of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors
1990-1993. Personal Psychotherapy (89 hrs.)
1991-1993. Spiritual Guidance Program Shalem Institute, Washington.
1990-1991. M. S. in Pastoral Counseling Loyola College,Baltimore
1990-1991. Internship Arundel Hospice, Baltimore.
1987. Apostolic Spirituality (3 months) Johannesburg.
1981-1982. Diploma in Mission Studies, St. Patrick’s College. Maynooth.
1974-1975. Human Relations Training, Richmond Fellowship London - a residential therapeutic community for people with mental health problems.
1973-1976. Participated in several conferences organized by the Grubb Institute and the Tavistock Institute on Leadership and Authority.
1967-1971. Theological Studies at Pontificio Ateneo Antonianum, Rome. B.D. (cum laude.) S.T.L. (summa cum laude.)
1964-1967. Philosophy and Sociology University College Galway. B A. (hons 2.1).
1958-1963. Secondary School Franciscan College Gormanston.


Publications:
“A Spiritual Presence on the Frontier” Dancing on the Edge: Chaplaincy, Church and Higher Education (McGrail, Peter & Sullivan John Eds.) Chelmsford, Essex: Matthew James 2007
“Confronting Institutional Denial: Two Recent Reports on the Sexual Abuse Crisis” Doctrine & Life. Vol 56 No. 2. Feb. 2006.
“Forgiveness: An Interdisciplinary Study” Journal of the National Association for Pastoral Counselling and Psychotherapy. Autumn 2005.


Clinical Experience:
1993-Present: Private Practice as a Pastoral Counselor/Therapist.
1993-Present: Private Practice as a Spiritual Director.
1993-Present: Counselling Supervisor/ Spiritual Direction Supervisor.
1993-Present: I have given workshops on grief, forgiveness in families and pastoral care to Bethany, Accord, Family Life Centre Boyle, Family Centre, Ballaghadreen.
1995-2001: Member of the Child Protection Task Force CORI (Conference of Religious of Ireland).
1999-2000. Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Southdown Institute, a residential mental health facility, in Toronto.
Coordinated the After-care Program
Facilitated a therapy group for residents with sexual allegations
Member of assessment team
Facilitated workshops sponsored by Institute
Provided Spiritual Direction


Membership:
2008-Present: Accredited Member Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
2006: Member of the Supervisors Association of Ireland.
2004-Present: Member National Association for Pastoral Counselling and Psychotherapy.
2003-Present: Founding Member All Ireland Spiritual Guidance Association.
1993-Present: Certified Member American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Member No. 4626.

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Thomas DalzellTom_cropped_minus_tinsel
Area of Specialisation: Theology; Psychoanalysis


Qualifications:
Bachelor of Divinity (1985); Licence in Theology (1989);
Higher Diploma in Pastoral Theology (1990); PhD in Theology (1996);
Higher Diploma in Psychoanalytic Studies (2002); Master of Science in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004);
PhD in Psychotherapy (2008)

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TEL: +353 1 8373745

Publications:
Books:
Freud's Schreber between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis
London: Karnac Books, 2011. 

Blog: www.karnacbooks.blogspot.com/2010/12/freuds-schreber-between-psychiatry-and.html

The Dramatic Encounter of Divine and Human Freedom in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, 2000 (2nd edition).

Articles:
"Lacan's Fourth Social Bond", Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research 21 (2011) 29-35.
"Eugen Bleuler in British Psychiatry, 1892-1954", History of Psychiatry 21.3 (2010) 325-339.
"Schreber in L'étourdit", The Letter. Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis 41 (2009) 103-133.
"Schizophrenia in Freud and Lacan. No Return to pre-Kraepelinian Bewilderment", The Letter. Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis 40 (2009) 7-17.
“Die Rezeption Eugen Bleulers in Grossbritannien und Irland”, Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie 159.5 (2008) 331-337.
“Kant’s Nothings and Lacan’s Empty Object”, The Letter. Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis 39 (2008) 97-102.
“Eugen Bleuler 150: Bleuler’s Reception of Freud”, History of Psychiatry 18.4 (2007) 471-482.
“Towards a Psychoanalytic Theology of Original Sin”, Irish Theological Quarterly 70.4 (2006) 89-112.
“What Theological Aesthetics can learn from Psychoanalysis”, All Hallows Studies (2006) 61-76.
“Theological Aesthetics and Lacanian Psychoanalysis”, Irish Theological Quarterly 69.1 (2004) 3-16.
“The Enrichment of God in Balthasar’s Theological Dramatics”, Irish Theological Quarterly 66.1 (2001) 3-18.
“Lack of Social Drama in Balthasar’s Theological Dramatics”, Theological Studies 60.3 (1999) 457-475.


Book reviews in Theological Studies; Heythrop Journal; Irish Theological Quarterly

Current Research Activities:
The theologies of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner;
Theology and Mental Health;
Freud and Lacan.

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Dr. Patrick QuinnPaddy Quinn
Area of Specialisation: Platonic influences on St. Thomas Aquinas’s accounts of mind, body and soul, the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of education.
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Qualifications:
BA in Philosophy and Logic, University College Dublin.
BD in Theology, Pontifical Collegio Universita Urbana, De Propaganda Fide, Roma
MA in Philosophy, University College Dublin
PhD in Philosophy, University of Liverpool
Higher Diploma in Education, University College, Dublin.
Diploma in Guidance and Counselling, Mater Dei Institute of Guidance and Counselling, Dublin.


Publications
Books:
Philosophy of Religion A-Z (2005), Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
Aquinas, Platonism and the Knowledge of God (1996), Aldershot: Avebury.

Book chapters in:

The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul (2009) ed. by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and John Dillon, Leiden & Boston: Brill
Platonism and Forms of Intelligence (2008), ed. By John Dillon and Marie-Elise Zovko, Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature and the Visual Arts (2004), ed. by Liana de Girolami Cheney & John Hendrix, New York: Peter Lang.
Credo: Faith and Philosophy in Contemporary Ireland (2003), ed. by Stephen Costello, Dublin: The Liffey Press.
Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics (2002), ed. by Aphrodite Alexandrakis, New York: SUNY Press.
Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals (2000) ed. Guyda Armstrong & Ian N. Wood, Turnhout, Belgium: Brephols Publishers nv.
The Propagation of Power in the Medieval West (1997), ed. by Martin Gosman, Arjo Vanderjagt & Jan Veenstra, Groningen: Egbert Forster Publishers.
Ethics and the Subject (1997) BY Karl Simms, Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V. publishers
Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives (1996), ed. by Oliver Leaman, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.

Journal publications:
Paulo Freire's Theory of Education as Political Transformation  in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2009 ed. by Cyril McDonnell, NUI Maynooth, Dublin: Mullin Print.
“Wittgenstein on Education” in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2007, ed. William Desmond, Maynooth.
“Aquinas’s views on mind and soul: Echoes of Platonism” in Verbum, Budapest,/2004.
“Disembodiment as a pre-condition for the ultimate aesthetic experience” in TKS Journal of Cultural Studies 2002.
“Aquinas’s views on Teaching” in New Blackfriars Vol.82, no.961, March 2001.
“Plato and Freire on Knowledge, Education and Justice” in Skepsis Vol.XII, 2001.
“Teaching as Critical Communication: Some Philosophical Views” in SATS-Nordic Journal of Philosophy Vol.1, No.1, Philadelphia Press, 2000.
“Teaching and the Ethical Dimension” in Issues in Education, ASTI Journal, Winetavern Street, Dublin, 2000.
“Better than Wittgenstein” in Issues in Education, ASTI Journal, Winetavern Street, Dublin, 1999.
“The Social Production of Reality: Post-modern Implications for Dialogue and Flexible Language” in International Journal of Communication Vol.9, no.1-2, January-December, 1999.
“The Ethical Aspects of Teaching and Learning” in T.E.X.T. Conference Proceedings, 1997.
“Aquinas’s Concept of the Body and out-of-body situations” in The Heythrop Journal, Vol.34, no.4, October 1993.
“The Interfacing Image of the Soul in the Writings of Aquinas” in Milltown Studies No.32, Autumn 1993.
“Knowledge for its own sake” in The Secondary Teacher Vol.21, no.3, published by the ASTI, Dublin, 1992.
“Education, Politics and Freedom – A Radical Perspective” in The Secondary Teacher Vo.20, no.1, published by the ASTI, Dublin 1991.
“Education: Theory or Practice?” in The Secondary Teacher Vol.19, no.3, published by the ASTI, Dublin,1990.
“The Relationship between Transcendence and Death in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas” in Milltown Studies, no.24, Spring 1990.
“Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education and its relationship with Marxism in 3rd World Countries” in Irish Philosophical Journal Vol.1, no.1, Spring 1984.

Current Research Activities:
Medieval philosophy, specifically on the influences of Platonism on St. Thomas Aquinas’s thought, the philosophy of religion, the relationship between beliefs (including scientific beliefs) and knowledge, the philosophy of education and the nature of pedagogy, Aristotle’s views on ethics and politics, aspects of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought, the philosophical analysis of culture, aspects of philosophical psychology, and the contributions of some contemporary women philosophers.
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Eugene CurranFr Eugene Curran
Area of Specialisation: Adult Education, Faith Formation, Pastoral Theology, Faith and Media, Vincentian Studies, Men's Spirituality

Current position:
Head of the School of Adult and Community Learning, All Hallows College
Director of the Pathways Programme in Adult Faith Formation

Qualifications:
BA (English and History), Maynooth
BD, Maynooth,
H Dip Past Theology (All Hallows)
H Dip in Education (Trinity College)
Graduate Studies in Formation Psychology, Dublin 1993-1996
Graduate Studies in Formation Science, Indianapolis, 2005-2007
D Min (CTU, Chicago)
Thesis: "Go and Open the Door; Initial Steps towards a future Project in Adult Formation"

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Publications:
Editor, COLLOQUE; the journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission
"Method and Model; Lonergan and Montessori", Divyadaan; Journal of Philosophy and Education
"The Psycho-Spiritual Development of John Gabriel Perboyre", in Vincentiana, 2003
"The Psycho-Spiritual Development of Louise de Marillac", Colloque, 2001

Membership:
Former Director of The Irish Federation of Film Societies
Chair of the Phyllis Wallbank Education Trust
Member of Secretariat Internationale des Etudes Vincentiennes (SIEV)

Current Research Activities:
Evaluation of the Pathways Programme
Men's Spirituality
Adult Education and Faith Formation in Dublin
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Michael O’Sullivan SJMichael O'Sullivan

Areas of specialisation: The academic study of spirituality; Theology and violence against women; Liberation theology; Spiritual Capital
Qualifications: BSocSc, Bac Phil, BD, MTh, STL, PhD
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TEL: + 353 1 852 0717

Publications:
Book:
How Roman Catholic Theology Can Transform Male Violence Against Women: Explaining the Role of Religion in Shaping Cultural Assumptions about Gender (N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), 432pp.

Selection of Articles or Book Chapters:

“The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of Liberated Israel,” Milltown Studies, no. 18 (1986): 87- 92.
 “The Feminist Hermeneutics of Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.” Milltown Studies, no. 21 (1988): 40-61.
“Tribute to a Latin American Martyr - Luis Espinal, S.J.” America, 7-14 January 1989, 8-11 and 20-21.
"Women, Poverty and Christianity in Relation to Africa.” Milltown Studies, no. 44 (1999): 103-29.
“The Case of Safiya Hussaini in Nigeria.” America (18 March 2002), 10-11
“Sin and Salvation in Relation to Male Violence against Women: A Perspective from Liberation and Feminist Theologies. In Faithful Witness: Glimpses of the Kingdom, edited by Joe Egan and Brendan McConvery, 24-39. Dublin: Kimmage Mission Institute at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, 2005.
"The Human Spirit and the Option for the Economically Poor." In With Wisdom Seeking God: The Academic Study of Spirituality, edited by Una Agnew, Bernadette Flanagan, and Greg Heylin, 223-33. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2008.
"Spirituality: A New Academic Discipline." Melita Theologica 59, no. 2 (2008): 71-77.
“Spiritual Capital and Social Transformation, Doctrine and Life (May-June 2009), 39-46.
“Thirtieth Anniversary Tribute to Archbishop Oscar Romero.” In Spirituality (March-April 2010): 103-08
“Reflexive and Transformative Subjectivity: Authentic Spirituality and a Journey with Incest”. In Sources of Transformation: Revitalizing Christian Spirituality. Edited by Edward Howells and Peter Tyler, 173-82. London: Continuum, 2010.


Current Research Interests:
Member of the Governing Board of the International Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality; member of the Steering Committee of the Christian Spirituality Study Group of the American Academy of Religion; member of the executive team of the Waterford Institute of Technology and All Hallows College Spiritual Capital Centre Ireland and co-editor of a volume being prepared for publication about ‘Spiritual Capital’.

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Livingstone A. Thompson PhDLiv Thompson

Areas of Specialisation: The Ecumenical Movement, Christian theology and religious pluralism, pastoral ministry

Qualifications:
2003 Doctorate in Philosophy, (PhD), University of Dublin/Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Dissertation in Religious Pluralism.
2000 Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Ecumenics, ISE, University of Dublin/TCD
Dissertation on Muslim-Christian Dialogue.
1989 Master of Arts in Theological Studies, (MATS), McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, USA. Thesis in Early Church History.
1982 Bachelor of Arts in Theology (BA Th), University of the West Indies, (UWI) Kingston, Jamaica.
1982 Diploma in Ministerial Studies, United Theological College of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
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Publications
Books

• 2009: A Protestant Theology of Religious Pluralism (Manuscript with Peter Lang Publishers).
• March 2007: A Formula for Conversation: Christians and Muslims in Dialogue. (University Press of America).


Select Published Articles
• October 2006: “Dr Lewin Williams and Caribbean Theology,” The Sunday Gleaner, (Kingston) 1 Oct 2006.
• September 2006: “Economic Success and Religious Affiliation,” The Sunday Gleaner, (Kingston) 3 Sept 2006.
• February 2006: “Civil Partnership vs Marriage, The Sunday Gleaner, (Kingston) 5 Feb 2006.
• January 2005: “The Death of Thousands a Theological Problem,” The Sunday Gleaner (Kingston) 2 Jan 2005.
• December 2004: “A Crisis in Human Sexuality,” The Sunday Gleaner, (Kingston) 5 Dec 2004.
• November 2004: “The Church and Politics,” The Sunday Gleaner (Kingston), 7 November 2004.
• July 2004: “The Moravian Migrants and the Miskito Indians in the 19th and 20th Century,” The Socio-Economic and Cultural Impact of Caribbean Migration to Nicaragua (Kingston: University of the West Indies, 2004).
• October 2003: “Interfaith Relations,” The Sunday Gleaner (Kingston) 5 Oct 2003.
• February 2001: “Ecumenism in the Caribbean,” Ecumenical Review, July 2001.
• Over 30 other articles dealing with issues of Religion and Society published monthly between August 2003 and May 2007 in the Jamaica Sunday Gleaner. See www.jamaica-gleaner.com.


Recent Areas of Research
• June-October 2008: Migrant-Led Churches and Chaplaincies in the Republic of Ireland. Results Published as AICCMR, Directory of Migrant-Led Churches and Chaplaincies in the Republic of Ireland. Belfast, AICCMR, 2009.
• Jan-Dec 2007: Migrant Information and Advocacy Needs in Meath. Manual for Intercultural Training Produced with End of Project Report. Result presented to the Board of Organisation.
• Sept 2004 – Feb 2005: “Management and Pastoral Practices of the Moravian Church in Jamaica.” Report presented to Board of Organisation.
• May 2004: “Liturgical Practices in the Surrey District Conference of the Moravian Church in Jamaica.” Resulted presented to the Moravian Church in Jamaica in 2004.
• June 2004: “Provincial Practices in the Office of Bishop in the World wide Moravian Church.” Result Presented to the Unity Board of the Worldwide Moravian Church.
• November 2001: “The Black-Led Churches in Ireland and the United Kingdom.” The result was presented seminar at the Irish School Ecumenics in 2002.
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Anne M Codd  pbvmAnne Codd   
Area of Specialisation:  Practical Theology with particular interest in pastoral development
Qualifications:  B.Sc., H.Dip.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D., Dip. in Consulting and Facilitation. AIMCI (Associate of the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers).

TEL:  353 1 5053025
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Publications:
‘The Parish in Partnership’ in The Furrow, November 2002
‘The School and the Parish: changing patterns of involvement’ in Ned Prendergast and Luke Monaghan (eds.) Reimagining the Catholic School, Dublin: Veritas, 2003
‘Releasing the Power of the Spirit, Vatican II as process’: in The Furrow, December 2003
Parish Pastoral Councils: a framework for developing diocesan norms and parish guidelines, published by the Commission for Pastoral Renewal and Adult Faith Development of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. (I was the convener and writer for the task group which produced this document.) October 2007
The Pastoral Context as a Living System: implications for theology and practice’ in Thomas Grenham (ed.) Who Do You Say I Am, Dublin: Veritas 2009 (forthcoming)

Current Research Activities
Pastoral planning and development activities in the Catholic dioceses of Ireland
Spirituality in a voluntary organization: a research project for ACCORD, Catholic Marriage Care Services.
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Jennie Clifford pbvmJennie Clifford  

Area of Specialisation: Pastoral Theology

Qualifications:
BSc, H Dip in Ed, BST, M Div, PhD

Publications:
“Collective Worship in Schools: Community Building” in At the Heart of Education: School Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care edited by James Norman. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2004.

Current Research Activities:
Feasibility Study for Vincentian Family in Ireland and England

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Anthony DraperAnthony Draper

Area of Specialisation: Systematic Theology.
Qualifications:
BA English and History.
STL St. Patricks College, Maynooth.
H.Dip in Education.
DD. St. Patricks College, Maynooth.

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Tel. 353 1 8520712

Publications:
‘What Theologians are now saying about Faith’, Doctrine and Life, January 2001.
‘ I Must be Listening to my Friends’, The Furrow, June 2001. (Reflections on the Priesthood).
‘Ever Wondered what God looks like?’ The Word, December 2001.
Regular reviewer of books in The Furrow and Doctrine and Life. Most recent The Furrow December 2008 and January 2009.

Current Research Interests:
The interconnections between Theology and Literature.
The interface between Spirituality and Literature.
Relationship between Spirituality and Culture.
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Ruth Anne Francis O’DonnellRuth ODonnell

Area of specialisation:
Qualifications
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PhD in Psychotherapy; MSc in Education & Training management; Certificate in Family Therapy Training; Diploma in Community Psychiatric Nursing
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Publications:
Unpublished Doctoral Thesis: ‘The Self as it emerges from the Couple Review; A Constructivist Theory for Reflective Conversations.’ (All Hallows College Dublin 2008)
Unpublished MSc Thesis: ‘Learning the SASB (Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour) Method of Research: Its History and Methodology as Applied to a Family Therapy Session’ (DCU 1997)
 
Membership:
1987 to date Family Therapy Association of Ireland
1990 to date Irish Council for Psychotherapy
1995 to date Society of Psychotherapy Research
2001 to date English Association of Family Therapy

Professional Interest:
1987 - 1989 Executive Member of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland
1989 – 1992 Chairperson of FTAI
1990 – 1992 Founding person (of three) of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy
1992 – 1995 General Secretary of ICP
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David KellyDavid Kelly 

B.D.   Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome,
B.A.   University College Dublin (NUI), (Irish, Latin)
H.Dip.Ed.  University College Cork (NUI),
M.A. (Spir.)       Milltown Institute/NCEA,
Ph.D (Theol.)   Milltown Institute/HETAC, Doctoral Thesis:
Seeing the Face of God: A Thematic Exploration of the Vision of God in the
Spirituality of St. Augustine.

Publications
Books:
Sinne a Phobal, a translation into Irish of the decree of Vatican II on the Apostolate of the Laity, Dublin: Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2000.
Lamplighters. Exploring Spirituality in New Contexts, co-edited with Bernadette Flanagan, Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2004.

Articles:
‘The Arrival of the Augustinian Canons and the Augustinian Friars in Britain’, Canterbury Studies in Franciscan History, volume (2), 2009, 201- 217.
Reflections for Weekdays and Saints’ Days, Scripture in Church, vol. 39, (2009), 86-95.
‘Hearing the voices of those who have gone before us’, a response to Tom O’Loughlin’s paper, ‘ “Celtic Spirituality” : A Case Study in Recycling the Christian Past for Present Needs’, in With Wisdom Seeking God. The Academic Study of Spirituality, ed. by Ú. Agnew, B. Flanagan, G. Heylin, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2008, 163-165.
‘Medieval Augustinian Foundations in Britain and Ireland’, Analecta Augustiniana vol. LXX (2007), 187-204.
Reflections for the Weekdays of Lent, Scripture in Church, vol. 37 (2007), 99-110
‘From the Cor Inquietum to the Sabbatum Cordis: The Journey to the Vision of God in the Writings of St. Augustine’, Milltown Studies 59-60 (2007), 1-20.
‘Facies Dei / Vultus Dei – the “Face of God” in the Writings of St. Augustine’, Milltown Studies 57 (2006), 6-32.
‘Perceptions of St. Patrick in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’ by Bridget McCormack, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000, a review article in Milltown Studies 56 (2005), 125-133.
‘The Augustinians in Dublin’, The Dublin Historical Record, vol. LVIII/2 (2005), 166-175.
‘The Irish Augustinian Archives: An Overview’, Irish Archives, vol. 12 (2005-2006), 31-34.
‘Central Themes in Christian Spirituality’ in Introduction to Christian Spirituality, Dublin: The Priory Institute, 2005, 8-25. Text revised and expanded in 2006.
‘Aspects of Augustinian Life in the 15th and 16th Centuries’, in S. Owens (ed.), As the Waters Flow: Banada through the Ages, Banada, Co. Sligo: 2003,18-19
‘An Glaoch chun na Naofachta’ in É. Ní Thiarnaigh (eag.), Machnamh 2001, BÁC: Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2001, 35-49.
‘Naomh Bríd’, An Sagart , Samhradh 2001, 27-29.
‘Oscailt Shollúnta Na Comhairle: Aitheasc an Phápa Eoin XXIII’, a translation into Irish of the address of Pope John XXIII for the opening of the Second Vatican Council, published as an appendix in É. Ní Thiarnaigh, Briathar Beo Dé, BÁC: Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2000, 90-101.
‘Back to Our Origins and Inspiration’, Religious Life Review 38(1999), 154-163.

Research Interests
The spirituality/theology of St. Augustine and its significance for today.
Early Christian patristic writers including Cassian, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great.
Early Irish/Celtic Spirituality: its sources and contemporary significance: the Vitae of the early Irish saints and other monastic writings of the early Irish Church.
Medieval origins of the Augustinian Friars and Nuns and of the Augustinian Canons Regular in Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe and the later history of these groups.
Medieval theologians and spiritual writers: Bonaventure, Hugh and Richard of St. Victor, Aelred of Rievaulx, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, William Flete.

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Teresa WhitakerTeresa_Whitaker_cropped_2
Area of Specialisation: Research Methodology specifically Qualitative, Quantitative and Documentary Research, Sociology of the Family, Gender Issues, Addiction and Problematic Drug Use, Sex Work.
Qualifications:
B. A. (Moderatorship) (Sociology and Political Science) (TCD).(1991)
M. Soc. Science (Sociology) (UCD) (1995)
PhD (Sociology) (UCD) Thesis: Bequeathing Practices in Twentieth Century Ireland: A Sociological Study. (UCD) (2005)
Cert. Addiction Studies (NUI, Maynooth) (2007)
Dip. Addiction Studies (Dublin Business School) (2008)
Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge Meánleibhéal B1 NUI (Maynooth) (2009)

PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles:
Hyde, A. Treacy, M., Whitaker, T. Santos, P., Knox, B. (2000) Young People’s Perceptions of and Experiences with drugs; findings from an Irish study. Health Education Journal, Vol. 59(2), 180-188
Hyde, A. Treacy, M., Boland, J., Whitaker, T. Santos, P., Knox, B. (2001) Alcohol Consumption among 11-16 Year olds: ‘Getting Around’ structural barriers? Nursing and Health Sciences, 3, 237-245
Treacy, M., Boland, J., Whitaker, T. Santos, P., Knox, B. (2006) Children Talking: Emerging Perspectives and Experiences of Cigarette Smoking, Qualitative Health Research, 17(2), 238-249
Whitaker, T. (2007), Creating Virtual Families? Bequeathing practices of childless, single and widowed testators in Ireland in 1951 and 2000. Journal of Family History, 32(2), 133-148
Whitaker, T. (2007), Patriarchs and Partners in Spousal Bequests in Ireland in 1951 and 2000: the life interest as a dying practice. Irish Journal of Sociology, 16(1), 97-117
Reports:
Cox, G. & Whitaker, T. (2009) Drug Use, Sex Work and the Risk Environment in Dublin, Dublin: NACD.
NACD (2009) Drug use in Ireland and Northern Ireland. 2006/2007 Drug Prevalence Survey: Sedatives or Tranquilisers, and Anti-Depressants Results.
NACD (2009) Drug use in Ireland and Northern Ireland. 2006/2007 Drug Prevalence Survey: Polydrug Use Results, Dublin: NACD.
NACD (2007) Recommendations to Government in relation to Workplace Drug Testing and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, Dublin:NACD.
NACD (2006) Progress Report August 2003-December 2005, Dublin: The Stationery Office
Treacy, M., Collins, R., Whitaker, T. (1995) Evaluation of a Course for Care Assistants, School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCD, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2.
Whitaker, T. (2000) Off The Wall, Evaluation of Audience Development Initiative by Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dublin: The Arts Council.
Whitaker, T. (1998) Tombs, Evaluation Research of Audience Development Initiative by Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dublin: The Arts Council.
Membership:
Sociological Association of Ireland
European Sociological Association

Current Activities:
Independent Researcher; Teaching, and Supervision of students doing Masters Dissertations.

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Brendan Patrick Carmody S.J.carmody--b_pic_cropped

Qualifications:
1986  Ph.D Graduate Theological Union,    Berkeley, California
1983  S.T.L. Jesuit School of Theology,  Berkeley
1978  M.A. (Education) Marquette University, Milwakee, Wisconsin
1977  M.A. (Religion) Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
1977  M.Div Jesuit School of  Theology, Berkeley
1975  B.Phil Milltown Institute of Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland.
1970  B.A. University College, Dublin, Ireland.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2004   The Evolution of Education in Zambia (Lusaka: Bookworld)
1999   Education in Zambia: Catholic Perspectives  (Lusaka: Bookworld )
1992   Conversion and Jesuit Schooling in Zambia  (Leiden: E.J.Brill)
Books Edited:
2004   Religion and Education in Zambia (Ndola: Mission Press)
2001   African Conversion. (Ndola: Mission Press).

Chapter in Published Book:
2007    “Catholic Church and State Relations in Zambian Education: A
Contemporary Analysis.” In G.Grace & J O’Keefe, eds.
International Handbook of Catholic Education. Part II.
(Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
ARTICLES
2010  ‘Interreligious Education and the question of Truth.’
International Handbook of Religious Education edited by G. Durka.
(Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.)
2008    “The Nature and role of religious studies at the University of
Zambia.” British Journal of Religious Education 30,1:25-35.
2007    “The Nature and Role of Christian Conversion in Zambia.”
International Journal for the Study of the Christian
Church 7, 2: 109-133.


SELECTED WORK  EXPERIENCE
2009-10  (Currently): Associate Research Professor—Institute of Education, London.
2007- 09: Professor: Milltown Institute of Philosophy & Religion, Dublin.
1998-2005: Senior Lecturer, Professor, University of Zambia, Lusaka.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Interfaith dialogue
Inter-religous education especially secondary school level
Psychological Dynamics of Religious development &  conversion
Mission theology with special focus on indigenization of faith
Catholic education
Chaplaincy at school and hospital

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Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh MA, Ph.D., H.Dip. in Ed.Margaret_O_hOgartaigh_cropped


Area of Specialisation: Gender, Medicine and Education in Historical context

Qualifications:
1999:   Ph.D., History, University College, Dublin.
‘Far from few: professional women in Ireland, 1880-1930.’
1991:   M.A., (By Research) History, First-Class Honours, Summa Cum Laude, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1988:   B.A., English and History, Joint Honours, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Fellowships and Awards
Fulbright Fellow, Boston College, USA.
Fellow, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.
Research Fellow, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Awarded ERASMUS funding to study at the European University Institute in Florence.
Finished 2nd in National University of Ireland, Galway, Graduate of the Year Competition.


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Publications (Selection):
Books
1/ Kathleen Lynn, Irishwoman, Patriot, Doctor (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, Oregon, 2006).  Hardback and paperback.
Featured on ‘The Best Reads of 2006’, Sunday Business Post, 24 December, 2006.
2/ Business Archival Sources for the Local Historian (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, Oregon, 2010). [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, University College, Dublin].
3/ Edward Hay, Historian of 1798, Catholic Politics in an Age of Wolfe Tone and Daniel O'Connell (Dublin, 2010)
Pamphlet
Dr. Kathleen Lynn and Maternal Medicine (Rathmines, Rathgar and Ranelagh Historical Association, Dublin, 2000).
Internationally Refereed Journal Articles
1/ ‘“How it essentially was”: Truth Claims in History and Accounting’, The Accounting Historians’ Journal: The Journal of the American Academy of Accounting Historians, (USA) 2001, Vol 29, No 1, pp 42-67 [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Dublin City University and Ingrid Jeacle, University of Edinburgh].
2/ ‘“Is there any need of you?” Women in Medicine in Ireland and Australia’, Australian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.4, 2004, pp 162-171.
3/ ‘“Clowns of no account”?  Reflections on the Involvement of Four Irishmen in the commercial life of the Colony of New South Wales, 1788-1818’, Accounting History, Vol 9, No 2, 2004, pp 63-85 [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Dublin City University and Russell Craig, Australian National University].
4/ ‘Irish Accounting, Business and Financial History: A Bibliographical Essay’, Accounting, Business and Financial History, Volume 18, Issue 1, No. 7, March, 2008, pp 7-19.
5/ ‘A Quiet Revolution: Irish Women and Second-Level Education, 1878-1930’, New Hibernia Review, Summer, 2009, pp 36-51.
Refereed Journal Articles
1/ ‘Emerging from the educational cloisters; educational influences on the development of professional women’, PaGes, Volume 3, 1996, pp 113-123.
2/ ‘Edward Hay: historian of 1798’ in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Iris an dá chultúr, 1998, Vol 13, pp 121-134.
3/ ‘Medical Archives for the Socio-Economic Historian’, Irish Economic and Social History, 2000, Vol 27, pp 66-72 [with Brian Donnelly, National Archives of Ireland].
4/ ‘Books and Baths and Run all the way; the Cultural and Educational Formation of Female Primary Teachers in the early twentieth-century’, Irish Educational Studies Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2004, pp 55-65.
5/ ‘Female Teachers and Professional Trade Unions in the early twentieth century’, Saothar, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, Vol.29, 2004, pp 33-41.
6/ ‘“Getting and Spending” – Accounting and Corporate Governance Archives in the National Archives of Ireland and the Public Record Office and Northern Ireland’, The Irish Accounting Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2004, pp 19-32 [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Dublin City University].
7/ ‘Corporate Governance Archives in the National Archives of Ireland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland’, Irish Economic and Social History, Vol. 31, 2004, pp 61-68 [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Dublin City University].
8/ ‘Irish Women in Dentistry’, Journal of the Irish Dental Association, Vol. 51, No. 4, Winter, 2005, pp 185-6.
9/ ‘“Sophisters, Economists and Calculators”: Pre-Professional Accounting Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, The Irish Accounting Review, Volume 13, Number 2, Winter 2006, pp 63-73 [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Victoria University, Wellington].
Journal Articles
1/ ‘Educational Influences on the Growth of Professional Women’, History Review, Volume X, 1996, pp 28-36.
2/ ‘Old Maids and Cats: the first female members of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants’, Accountancy Ireland, October, 1999, pp 22-23 [with Ciaran Ó hÓgartaigh, Dublin City University].
3/ ‘Archival Sources for the History of Professional Women’, Irish Archives, Vol 6, 1999, pp 23-25.
4/ ‘Edward Hay, Wexford Historian of 1798’, Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, No 17, 1998-1999, pp 159-175.
5/ ‘“Am I a Lady or an Engineer?” Early Irish Female Engineers’, Irish Engineers’ Journal, December 2002, 48-49.
6/ ‘Shedding their “Reserve”: Camogie and the Origins of Women’s Sport in Ireland’, High Ball, July 2003, pp 29-31.
7/ ‘St. Ultan and Ardbraccan’, Ríocht na Midhe.  Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2003, Vol xiv, pp 230-241.
8/ ‘Councillor Tully’s Views on Women and Paid Work’, Ríocht na Midhe.  Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2004, Vol xv, pp 173-179.
9/ ‘Women in Pharmacy in the Early Twentieth Century’, The Irish Pharmacy Journal, Vol 82, No 6, June 2004, pp 273-278.
10/ ‘History, biography and all that jazz.’  An interview with Professor Peter Jupp, Queen’s University, Belfast, History Ireland, November/December, 2005, pp 47-50.
11/ ‘Mother Columba Gibbons of the Loreto Convent in Navan and author of the ballad “Who fears to speak of Easter Week”’, Ríocht na Midhe, Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol xvi, 2005, pp 189-193.
12/ ‘St. Ultan’s, A Women’s Hospital for Infants’, History Ireland, Summer, 2005, pp 36-9.
13/ ‘A medical appointment in County Meath’, Ríocht na Midhe, Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. xvii, 2006, pp 266-270.
14/ ‘Female Veterinary Surgeons in Ireland, 1900-30’, Irish Veterinary Journal, 2006, pp 388-9.
15/ ‘Internal Tamponage, Hockey Parturition and Mixed Athletics in Ireland in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s’, History Ireland, November/December, 2007, pp 32-35.
16/ ‘Lord Fingall of Killeen Castle and Edward Hay of Wexford: Catholic Politics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century’, Ríocht na Midhe, Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. xviii, 2007, pp 151-155.
17/ ‘Internal Tamponage, Hockey Parturition and Mixed Athletics in Ireland in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s’, Ríocht na Midhe, Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. xix, 2008, pp 214-222.
18/ ‘Susan Stephens, A Monaghan’s Woman’s Memoir from the 1910s’, Clogher Record, 2007-08, pp 291-293.
19/ ‘Antonia MacDonnell, Meath’s First Female Barrister and the Legal Profession in Ireland in the Early Twentieth Century’, Ríocht na Midhe, Records of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. xix, 2009, pp 273-276.
Book Chapters
1/ ‘Dorothy Stopford-Price and the Elimination of Childhood Tuberculosis’ in Joost Augusteijn (ed.), Ireland in the 1930s.  New Perspectives (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 1999) pp 67-82.
2/ ‘Making History and Defining the Nation: Nineteenth-Century Interpretations of 1798’ in Philip Bull, Frances Devlin-Glass and Helen Doyle (eds) Ireland and Australia 1798-1998.  Studies in Culture, Identity and Migration (Crossing Press, Sydney, 2000) pp 24-33.
3/ ‘Flower Power and “Mental Grooviness”: nurses and midwives in Ireland in the early twentieth century’ in Bernadette Whelan, (ed.) Women and Paid Work in Ireland, 1500-1930 (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 2000) pp 133-147.
4/ ‘The Babies’ Clubs in Ireland and the Children’s Bureau in the US’ in Chester Burns, Ynez Violé O’Neill, Philippe Albou and José Gabriel Rigau-Pérez (eds.) Proceedings of the 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 2001) pp 99-103.
5/ ‘Women in University Education in Ireland: The Historical Background’ in Ann Macdona (ed.) From Newman to New Woman.  UCD Women Remember (New Island, Dublin, 2001) pp iii-xi.
6/ ‘Hedge Schools and Pre-Professional Business Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’ in Felix Larkin (ed), Librarians, Poets and Scholars: a Festschrift for Dónall Ó Luanaigh (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 2007) pp 185-194 [with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Victoria University, Wellington].
7/ ‘Nurses and Teachers in the West of Ireland in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries’ in Ciara Breathnach (ed.) Framing the West.  Images of Rural Ireland, 1891-1920 (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, 2007) pp 197-214.
 


Membership of Learned Societies

American Conference for Irish Studies
Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
Irish Economic and Social History Society
Irish Fulbright Alumni Association
Irish Historical Society
Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
National Library of Ireland Society
Social History of Medicine
Women’s History Association of Ireland

 

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Liam G. Walsh,  O.P. Liam_Walsh_OP

 

Qualifications:
S.T.L. (O.P.) at Le Saulchoir, 1958
S.T.Lic.  at Le Saulchoir, 1958
S.T.D.  from Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), with thesis entitled "The Christian Prayer of the Psalms, according to the 'Tituli Psalmorum' of the Latin MSS",  defended 1963, published 1967
S.T.M  (O.P.), 1989

 Teaching and other Ministry

Lecturer in Fundamental Theology, Dogmatic Theology, Liturgy at Dominican House of Studies, Tallaght, 1958-1974
at Milltown Institute, Dublin, 1972-1974
at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin, 1964-1967
Professor of Dogmatic Theology (English language) at Angelicum, 1984-1988
Ordinary Professor of Dogmatic Theology (French language) at University of Fribourg, 1988-1999
Lecturer in Fundamental Theology in Dominican Studium, St Saviour’s, Dublin, 2002
Ongoing theological education courses in Ireland, England and United States,
Ongoing theological education for priests at North American College, Rome, at S.V.D. College, Rome, at San Anselmo, Rome
Preaching in Ireland, England, U.S.A., South Africa
Contributions to Religious programmes on Irish National Radio and Television, 1964-1974

Positions of Responsibility
Provincial Councilor, O.P., Ireland, 1969-1973
Vice-Regent of Studies, O.P., Ireland, 1973-1975
Assistant General O.P. with responsibility for studies, 1975-1983
Subprior San Clemente, Rome, 1984-1988
Regent of Studies, Ireland and Provincial Councilor, 2000-2008
Vice-Chairman of Irish Theological Association 1967-1969
Member of Dublin Diocesan Liturgical Commission, 1966-1967
Consultor to Irish National Episcopal Commission on Liturgy 1968-1975
Member of Delegation of Holy See in Ecumenical Dialogue with Pentecostal Churches, 1978-80
Consultor of Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, 1989-2009
Member of Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC II), 1991-2009
Member of Ecumenical Commission of Swiss Bishops, 1993-1999
Vice-Rector of the University of Fribourg, 1995-1999

 

Publications
Books:
Vatican II on Revelation
(Co-author with W.J. Harrington, O.P.), Scepter, Dublin 1965, pp.191

The Grace of Christ, vol. 49 of Summa Theologiae (3a. 7-15), Blackfriars, London and New York 1974, 232 pp.

The Sacraments of Initiation. Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Geoffrey Chapman, London 1988, pp. 317 [second, revised edition is currently being printed for publication by Hillenbrand Books, Mundelein, probably in 2011]

Fundamental Theology, 2 vols, Module of Distance Learning Programme ‘Theology Today’, The Priory Institute, Tallaght 2005, pp. 112 and pp.128

The Church Gathered and Gathering [The Sacraments], 2 vols, Module of Distance Learning Programme ‘Theology Today’, The Priory Institute, Tallaght 2009, pp. 176 and pp.150.

Contributions to books:
"Sacraments and Sacramentals" in Liturgy: Renewal and Adaptation, ed. Austin Flannery, Scepter, Dublin 1964 (revised ed. 1968)

"Priesthood and Holiness in the Church" in The Meaning of the Church, ed, Donal Flanagan, Gill, Dublin 1966, pp. 145-165

"The Christian Prayer of the Psalms, according to the 'tituli psalmorum' of the Latin MSS" in Studies in Pastoral Liturgy III, ed. Placid Murray, O.S.B.,  Gill, Dublin 1967, pp. 29-73  (also published separately, with bibliography, Gill, Dublin 1967)

"Theology and Ecumenism in Ireland" in Directions. Theology in a Changing Church,  APCK, Dublin 1970, pp. 201-218

"Key to the Psalms" in Making the Most of the Breviary ed. Austin Flannery, O.P., Dominican Publications, Dublin 1977, pp. 28-74

"The Divine and the Human in St. Thomas's Theology of the Sacraments" in Ordo Sapientiae et amoris. Hommage au Prof. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., ed C.-J. Pinto de Oliveira, O.P., Fribourg 1993

"Purification and Illumination on the Way to Union: the ARCIC Experience" in Œkumene. Das eine Ziel - die vielen Wege. Œcuménisme. Un seul but - plusieurs chemins Festschrift zum 30jährigen Bestehen des Institutum Studiorum Œcumenicorum des Universität Freiburg (Schweiz), Iso Baumer und Guido Vergauwen (Hrsg.) Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, 1995. 101-123

"St. Thomas and Study" in La Formazione Integrale Domenicana (Atti del Congresso Internazionale Pontificia Università S. Tommaso, Roma 23-24 Novembre 1994) a cura di Robert Christian OP, Edizioni Studio Domenicano, Bologna, 1996, 223-252

"An Ecumenical Reading of Aquinas on the Eucharist" in Liturgia et Unitas. Etudes liturgiques et œcuméniques sur l'Eucharistie et la vie liturgique en Suisse, in honorem Bruno Bürki, Fribourg and Genève 2001, pp. 226-240

"Sacraments" in The Theology of Thomas Aquinas, edited by Rik Van Nieuwenhove and Joseph Wawrykow,  Notre Dame 2005 pp. 326-364

“The Presence of the Mystery of Christ in the Broken Bread” in The Mystery of Faith. Reflections on the Encyclical ‘Ecclesia de Eucharistia’, edited by James McEvoy and Maurice Hogan SSC, The Columba Press, Dublin 2005

“Liam Walsh” in Building Bridges. Dominicans Doing Theology Together. Dominican Publications, Dublin 2005, pp.200-202

“Christ as Model of the Preacher in the Teaching of Aquinas” in Watchmen Raise Their Voices. A Tallaght Book of Theology, edited by Vivian Boland OP, Dominican Publications, Dublin 2006, pp. 77-96

Articles:
"The Renewal of Theology" in Doctrine and Life 15(1965)   59-72

"Dominicans and Renewal"  in Doctrine and Life 19(1969)  59-72

"The Priest and the Book" in The Furrow 22(1971)  402-417

"Saint Thomas Aquinas Today" in Doctrine and Life24(1974)  298-309

"Liturgy in the Theology of St. Thomas" in The Thomist 38(1974) 557-583

"Faith and Sciences in the Dominican Order" in Dominican Ashram2(1983)  21-27

"Philosophy in the Dominican Order Today" in Angelicum 61(1984) 161-178

"Father Vincent de Couesnongle and the Promotion of Studies in the Order" in Analecta S.O.P. 100(1992) 256-259

In Memoriam: Vincent de Couesnongle, OP” in Religious Life Review 31(1992) 238-240

"Anglican/Roman Catholic Dialogue: Where We Stand Now" in Doctrine and Life 43(1993) 3-12

"thomas the Thinker" in Doctrine and Life 43(1993) 156-161

"Yves Congar - Worker theologian" in Linkup, April 1994

"Teaching authority (Magisterium) in Ecumenical Formation for Ministry" in Ministerial Formation (WCC) 74(1996) 3-15

“Jean Tillard Remembered, 1927-200” in Religious Life Review 40(2001) 29-30

“Taking the Measure of the Spirit” in Doctrine and Life 50(2000) 619-628

“Why, Lord, Have Religious Become So Few” in Religious Life Review, 41(2002) 258-269

"Le dialogue œcuménique: une quête de Dieu" in Positions luthériennes 51(2003) 161-173

“New Energy for Ecumenical Endeavour” in Doctrine and Life 55(2005) 3-11

“Light for the Church” in Religious Life Review 45(2006) 357-382

“The Place of Religious in Ireland Today” in Religious Life Review 46(2007) 347-365

“October People – The Rosary” in Spirituality13(2007) 283-284

“Praying the Our Father, In Christ, For the Spirit” in Spirituality 14(2008) 157-158

“The Power to Serve and Love” in Religious Life Review 49(2010) 230-233

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Tony McNamara

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Area of Specialisation: Political Theology and Catholic Social Teaching
Qualifications

BA         UCD     1963
BD        Maynooth   1967 
MEd    TCD     1973 (Education)
Ph.D.  TCD 2009 (Theology: Christian Ethics)

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Membership of Committees and Professional Bodies

1982                Irish Institute of Training and Development : Chairman of the Eastern Region Chapter
1980                Secretary, Irish section of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions
1987                Secretary, Consultative Group of Chief Executives of State Sponsored Bodies
1990 - 1993     Chairman, Standing Conference of European Public Service Training         Agencies
1991 - 1993     Board Member, Retirement Planning Council of Ireland
1993                Member, Council of Europe Bureau of Local Government Training Agencies Network
2000                Treasurer, Clé, Irish Book Publishers Association
2003                Secretary, Irish Theological Association

Publications
•           ‘Itinerant Children in National Schools’, Dublin, Report commissioned by the Irish National Itinerant Settlement Committee, 1971
•         ‘Young Citizen’, Dublin, IPA, Civics Magazine - Editor 1974
•           ‘Blueprint’,  Dublin, Civics Teachers Magazine - Founder and Editor 1975-76
•           ‘Pressure Groups and the Public Service’, Dublin, Administration, 1976
•           ‘The Ombudsman’, Dublin, An IPA Monograph 1976
•           ‘Local Authorities in Action - An Educational and Training Resource Book’, Dublin, IPA, 1983
•           ‘Education and Training for Managers of Statutory Corporations and Public Enterprises’, Brussels, International Association of   Schools and  Institutes of Administration, Monograph  1984
•           ‘Towards a New Democracy’ (Contributor), Dublin, Muintir na Tire Report, 1985
•           ‘Ethics and the Civil Service’,  Dublin, Seirbhis Poibli, 1986
•           ‘Shaping the Future of Europe’ (Ed), Dublin, Administration (special edition) 1992
•           Occasional Papers (Standing Conference of European Public Service Training Agencies), Editor - 1992
•           ‘Government without Citizens’, Dublin, Administration, 1993
•           ‘Efficiency and Effectiveness in the European Public Service’  (Ed), Dublin, Administration (special edition) 1993
•           ‘Review of Public Service Developments’ in Administration, annually since 1995
•           ‘Strategic Management : The Implementation Challenge’ (Ed), IPA, 1995
•           ‘A New Constitutional Balance’ (with F. Litton and T. O’Connor), Administration, 1996
•           ‘Protecting Irish Children’ (editor with H. Ferguson), special edition of Administration, 1996
•           ‘From Intent to Action : The Management of Strategic Issues in the Public Sector’ (editor with R. Boyle), IPA, 1996
•           ‘Public Service Trainers in Europe’, SCEPSTA, 1998
•           ‘Governance and Accountability : Power and Responsibility in the Public Service’ (editor with R. Boyle), IPA 1998
•           ‘What was, what is and what might have been’, The Furrow, 2002
•           Columnist in Doctrine and Life 2003-4
•           'Cultural and Religious Identity in Global Process : A Case Study of New Public Management in Ireland'. Paper delivered to Erasmus conference 'Talking about God in Europe', Vienna, 2003
•           'Subsidiarity : An Irish Case Study of Institutional Conditions Affecting Religion in the Public Arena', paper delivered to Erasmus Conference 'Talking About God in Europe', Paris, 2005
•           'Consumer, client, customer or citizen - Can the state be a good company?'. Paper delivered to the  conference The Good Company, Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), Rome, October, 2006
•           'All Theology is Local : An Alternative Perspective on Caritas on Veritate', The Furrow, March 2010
•           'Ireland, the Catholic Social Tradition, and the State as Indirect Employer', Doctrine and Life, March 2010