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Ireland 2030

Wednesday, 8 June 2022

If you missed our series of four panel discussions delving into key issues facing society on the island of Ireland you can watch them now.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee

'How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?'

Thursday, 15 April 2021

Read the report on the recent debate on conscientious objection from legal, philosophical, theological and religious perspectives.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee

Read the report or watch the event 'How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?'

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Debate on conscientious objection from legal, philosophical, theological and religious perspectives, and finally a discussion on how legislators and governments in liberal democracies should react to claims of...

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee

Report from Twenty Years after the Belfast Agreement 1998: A Young Person’s Guide to the Future

Thursday, 28 June 2018

A succinct report from the conversation about the main issues facing young people in Ireland twenty years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee

Survival and the citizen: Micro-dialogues on key challenges

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Read the first in a series of 'microdialogues' - online conversations between two experts on key challenges for modern society. The first addresses end-of-life care and the right to die.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee, Micro-dialogues

The Ethical Political Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee Series of Constitutional Conversations

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

During 2016 Mason Hayes & Curran sponsored the committee’s series of Constitutional Conversations on a range of topics.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee, Constitutional Conversations

Ethical Political Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee Opinion Series

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Throughout 2015 the committee authored an Opinion Series on a range of topics as part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative. 

President of Ireland's Ethics Initiative, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee, Opinion Series

Response to the Consultation by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment on the Draft Junior Cycle Philosophy Short Course

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Authored by committee members of the Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee in response to the NCCA's call.

Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee

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