Eamon Maher, Eugene O’Brien, Tracing the Legacy of Irish Catholicism. From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017

This volume is the latest study of the challenges and prospects of contemporary Irish Catholicism. The word “legacy” suggests that the contributors write on the assumption that Irish Catholicism is dead. What is Irish Catholicism, and what about it is dead? To answer these questions, the editors look at Irish Catholicism with cultural lenses, bringing together academic contributors across the spectrum of the humanities as well as voices from the Church and ..

Colin Barr, Ireland’s Empire. The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking World, 1829-1914

Canadian-born Colin Barr received his PhD from Cambridge and held academic positions in Ireland and the United States prior to his current post as senior lecturer at the school of divinity, history and philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. His work on Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (1852-1878) and Ireland’s first cardinal (1866), is well known to Irish Studies scholars (Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865, Notre Dame, University of Notre Da..

Avant-propos

Michael D. Higgins a des raisons d’être « profondément ému » lorsqu’il prononce à la Sorbonne la conférence qui suit sur l’Europe et la citoyenneté dans le contexte de la présidence irlandaise de l’Union européenne en ce premier semestre de l’année 2013. Son regard est pétillant et sa joie manifeste. Que de souvenirs en effet doivent surgir lorsque son ancien homologue Jack Lang vient lui rendre hommage sur la scène de l’amphithéâtre ! Lorsque les deux homm..

Introduction

In 1994, the Irish Studies Research Centre of the University of Caen Lower Normandy invited John McGahern, as his novel The Barracks was one of the set works for the Agrégation. The Irish writer was delighted to meet Prof. Paul Brennan who was the head of the Research Centre. They had much in common: both were born in the 1930s in the North West of the Republic of Ireland into large Catholic families; both had a father who was a Garda. Addressing a packed l..

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Vaccine breakthrough hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with auto-Abs neutralizing type I IFNs

Life-threatening `breakthrough' cases of critical COVID-19 are attributed to poor or waning antibody response to the SARS- CoV-2 vaccine in individuals already at risk. Pre-existing autoantibodies (auto-Abs) neutralizing type I IFNs underlie at least 15% of critical COVID-19 pneumonia cases in unvaccinated individuals; however, their contribution to hypoxemic breakthrough cases in vaccinated people remains unknown. Here, we studied a cohort of 48 individuals ( age 20-86 years) who received 2 doses of an mRNA vaccine and developed a breakthrough infection with hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia 2 weeks to 4 months later. Antibody levels to the vaccine, neutralization of the virus, and auto- Abs to type I IFNs were measured in the plasma. Forty-two individuals had no known deficiency of B cell immunity and a normal antibody response to the vaccine. Among them, ten (24%) had auto-Abs neutralizing type I IFNs (aged 43-86 years). Eight of these ten patients had auto-Abs neutralizing both IFN-a2 and IFN-., while two neutralized IFN-omega only. No patient neutralized IFN-ss. Seven neutralized 10 ng/mL of type I IFNs, and three 100 pg/mL only. Seven patients neutralized SARS-CoV-2 D614G and the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) efficiently, while one patient neutralized Delta slightly less efficiently. Two of the three patients neutralizing only 100 pg/mL of type I IFNs neutralized both D61G and Delta less efficiently. Despite two mRNA vaccine inoculations and the presence of circulating antibodies capable of neutralizing SARS-CoV-2, auto-Abs neutralizing type I IFNs may underlie a significant proportion of hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia cases, highlighting the importance of this particularly vulnerable population

Histoire de l'Irlande: de 1912 à nos jours

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“The Insularity paradigm in Irish cultural discourse and its effectiveness in recessionary times”

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« Don’t Mention the War ! » : La vie culturelle à Dublin pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

International audienceThe neutrality which led Ireland to hide the atrocities of World War II from its population still causes embarrassment to the country to this day. Nevertheless, a new perception of this thorny issue seems to be emerging thanks to a new musical which came out in 2004 caricaturing in a comical way an Ireland collaborating with the Nazis. This event calls for a re-examination of the pro-neutrality propaganda policy especially in the area of representation. Cultural life in Dublin during World War II is often described as being drab, stifled by the censorship of all material directly or indirectly concerning the belligerents. In fact, this period is a watershed towards the modern assimilation of foreign influences, notably in the area of the visual and performing arts

Ireland’s Music Policy

International audienceA study of the discourse on music in Ireland emanating from public and semi-public bodies dealing with culture and from the music world reveals that a polarised conception of music which originated at the end of the 19th century has lasted throughout the 20th century. This essay highlights the key moments of that discourse and looks at efforts made by the Arts Council and the Department of Arts to overcome a narrow and often lingering ideological approach to music.L’étude du discours sur la musique en Irlande émanant d’institutions gouvernementales ou d’organismes culturels semi-indépendants et du monde musical montre que la conception polarisée de la musique telle qu’elle s’est développée à la fin du XIXe siècle perdure à travers le XXe siècle. Cet article met en évidence les moments clés de ce discours et examine les efforts de l’Arts Council et du ministère des Arts en vue de surmonter une approche étroite et souvent encore idéologique de la musique