Pluralism in Primary Schools-Seamus Heaney Lectures

The seventh lecture in the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series will centre on education and ethos. Dr Jones Irwin, Lecturer in Philosophy, St Patrick’s College, will look at obstacles to pluralism in Irish schools, focusing on the report arising from the Forum on...

Garden of Hope Unveiled

A labour of love undertaken over a 10 day period in Dublin’s North inner city came to a flowering finale this morning when the Garden of Hope project at the housing facility run by Dublin Simon Community was unveiled. A team of volunteers have been working on the...

Opening of Garden of Hope for Dublin Simon

After almost 10 days of hard work carried out by a team of volunteers, the Garden of Hope at the Simon Housing facility at Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin 1, will be unveiled on Tuesday, 7th May. Work on transforming waste ground behind the facility began on Friday,...

Learning to Live With Differences: Heaney Lecture Series

Learning to live with difference: towards future social relations One of the world’s leading Social Geographers, Professor Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield, will deliver a lecture at the fourth in the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series at St Patrick’s College,...

Garden of Hope Project Underway

Dublin, Friday, 26th April, 2013: Work got underway this morning on transforming waste ground at a Dublin inner city housing unit run by the Simon Community  into a designer garden which is the brainchild of students from a local secondary school. The Garden of Hope...