Tom Inglis
Biographic Data
| ID | 146448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Inglis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Inglis |
| SIGNATURE | INGLIS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Religion in Irish Literature and Culture
Contrary to the widespread belief in Ireland's rapid secularisation, religion continues to play a significant role in twenty-first-century Irish culture, though not in the familiar forms of Catholicism and Protestantism. This volume seeks to redress the balance and demonstrate that religion intersects with and informs past and present Irish culture. While writers from Sean O'Casey to Edna O'Brien have challenged religious oppression, Joyce's here…
The slings, arrows and survival of Irish sociology
Webs of meaning: Theories and evidence from contemporary Ireland
Meaning is basic to social life. Without it we are, as Bourdieu put it, like fish out water. And yet, within mainstream sociology, meaning is taken for granted. There are two questions. Is it important to try and get at meaning? And, if yes, how do we do so? In this article, I argue that we have progressed much theoretically from the debate that took place between Schutz and Parsons back in the 1960s. It is as if meaning and structures are opposi…
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(3), pp. 542–543
Church and Culture in Catholic Ireland
Church and Culture in Catholic Ireland Tom Inglis There was a time, not long ago, when the Republic of Ireland was a homogeneous society and culture. The vast majority of the people were white, English-speaking and Catholic. Over the last fifty years, the cultural map of the country has changed dramatically. Ireland has become a multi-national, cosmopolitan, globalised society. There has been a shift in the balance of institutional cultural power…
Are the Irish different?
1. Introduction - Tom Inglis 2. Irishness and nationalisms - Sinisa Malesevic' 3. Where is Ireland in the worlds of capitalism? - Sean O Riain 4. Just another bubble economy? - Denis O'Hearn 5. A Catholic vision of Ireland - Bryan Fanning 6. The Irish political elite - Kieran Allen 7. The Irish family - different or not? - Tony Fahey 8. Single women in story and society - Anne Byrne 9. The Irish body - Tom Inglis 10. Sexual abuse and the Catholic…
Place, Family, and Identity
In and of themselves, places like Castlebay, Mayfarm, and the other localities in which I interviewed people, have no meaning. They are simply geographical areas. For outsiders, like myself, the roads, houses, shops, pubs, and churches do not generate the same emotions as for those live in the area. I did not grow up in the same webs of meaning. There are no personal experiences, no collective memories. I have no understanding of the different pe…
Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland: Webs of Significance
1. Introduction 2. Theoretical 3. Place, Family and Identity 4. Money and Success 5. Politics 6. Sport 7. Religions 8. Love 9. Conclusion
Love
Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic love has become the dominant form of inner-worldly salvation. In Foucault’s terms, it has become a key component in the ‘arts of existence’ and the care of self. In this highly accessible introduct…
The double bind: Women, honour and sexuality in contemporary Ireland
Irish women are caught in contradictory sexual discourses which create a cultural double bind. The legacy of Catholic Church teaching, in which the sexual honour of women revolves around their innocence and subservience, still lingers. This is gradually being replaced by media messages and images which portray women as sexually equal and independent. However, the media also portray sexually independent women as a threat to sexual moral order. The…
Local and National Belonging in A Globalised World
The question of place is becoming more important in an increasingly globalised, cosmopolitan world. Has the global flow of culture and the movement of people around the world meant a decline in the importance of place as a form of identity? Have local, regional and national identities lost their significance for people? The article begins to explore these key issues. In particular it looks at Ireland which, from the 1990s, moved from being relati…
Leanne McCormick, Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland
The question remains: did Irish sexual repression run deep and last longer than elsewhere in the West? The answer may have been in doubt up until recently. But the publication of two major inquiries into clerical child sex abuse—the Ryan and Murphy reports—suggest that the Irish were not so much an island of saints and scholars as a breeding ground for some very abnormal sexual behaviours. We know that from the middle of the nineteenth century, m…
Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular
A central task in sociology is to make links between the micro world of events in everyday life and wider social structures and long-term processes of change. This is particularly evident in studying the impact of globalization on local cultural life. I argue that case studies are a good method for making connections between the micro and the macro. I use an example of a study of globalization I conducted in a village in Ireland. However, I also …
The Media and the Catholic Church in Ireland: Reporting Clerical Child Sex Abuse
Insufficient attention has been paid to the relationship between the Church and the media. Using Ireland as a laboratory for study, we argue that the rise of the media as a public watchdog and social conscience of Irish society can be linked to the secularisation of Catholic Ireland, both at a macro-level in terms of the decline in the institutional power of the Church and at a micro-level in terms of the decline in institutional participation an…
Catholic Identity in Contemporary Ireland: Belief and Belonging to Tradition1
Holy Catholic Ireland is changing rapidly. Irish Catholics no longer have the same devotion to the Church that their parents had. While institutional affiliation and levels of belief remain high, there has been a decline in practice, particularly in the number going to Mass. This paper analyses recent changes in Catholic belief and practice, compares them with trends among other European Catholics, and links them to findings from a qualitative st…
Global Ireland: Same Difference
Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ago it was one of the poorest and most traditional countries in Europe, yet now it is one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan. Using a number of cas…
From Self-Denial to Self-Indulgence: The Class of Cultures in Contemporary Ireland
Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland
The history of Irish sexuality remains a relatively hidden, secretive area. In recent years some light has been cast into the abyss (Inglis 1998b; McAvoy 1999; McLoughlin 1994; Meany 1991; Walshe 1997; O’Carroll and Collins 1995). Most of the recent grand histories, however, have avoided dealing with sex and sexuality directly and have focused instead on such issues as censorship, the multi-faceted role of the Catholic church, fertility control, …
Sexual Transgression and Scapegoats: A Case Study from Modern Ireland
The Republic of Ireland has become known as the Celtic Tiger. For the last five years of the 20th century it has had the fastest growing economy in Europe. There have also been dramatic changes in Irish culture: the monopoly which the Catholic Church held over Irish morality has been broken; there is increased tolerance and acceptance of alternative sexuality. But it was not long ago that things were very different. This article tells the story o…
Religion and Politics: East-West Contrasts from Contemporary Europe
Foucault, Bourdieu and the Field of Irish Sexuality
Sociological analysis of Irish sexuality has been notable for its absence. This paper examines the contribution which Foucault's theory of sexuality as a discourse of truth and apparatus of power makes toward elucidating key issues in the history and contemporary field of Irish sexuality. Although Foucault provides good insights into the constitution of a hermeneutics of the self within different ethical regimes, his analysis of sexuality is inad…
Women and the Struggle for Daytime Adult Education in Ireland
Yes, but think, there was a time when you couldn't want anything. You weren't allowed to want anything, you were a woman. Things have changed drastically since 1970. People who wanted something were strange. There was something wrong with you. All women want things, but they don't know what they are allowed to want to have. They don't want to stand out like a sore thumb and belong to anything. I mean even to belong to adult education now is reall…
Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland
The history of Irish sexuality remains a relatively hidden, secretive area. In recent years some light has been cast into the abyss (Inglis 1998b; McAvoy 1999; McLoughlin 1994; Meany 1991; Walshe 1997; O’Carroll and Collins 1995). Most of the recent grand histories, however, have avoided dealing with sex and sexuality directly and have focused instead on such issues as censorship, the multi-faceted role of the Catholic church, fertility control, …
Catholic Identity in Contemporary Ireland: Belief and Belonging to Tradition1
Holy Catholic Ireland is changing rapidly. Irish Catholics no longer have the same devotion to the Church that their parents had. While institutional affiliation and levels of belief remain high, there has been a decline in practice, particularly in the number going to Mass. This paper analyses recent changes in Catholic belief and practice, compares them with trends among other European Catholics, and links them to findings from a qualitative st…
Foucault, Bourdieu and the Field of Irish Sexuality
Sociological analysis of Irish sexuality has been notable for its absence. This paper examines the contribution which Foucault's theory of sexuality as a discourse of truth and apparatus of power makes toward elucidating key issues in the history and contemporary field of Irish sexuality. Although Foucault provides good insights into the constitution of a hermeneutics of the self within different ethical regimes, his analysis of sexuality is inad…
The Media and the Catholic Church in Ireland: Reporting Clerical Child Sex Abuse
Insufficient attention has been paid to the relationship between the Church and the media. Using Ireland as a laboratory for study, we argue that the rise of the media as a public watchdog and social conscience of Irish society can be linked to the secularisation of Catholic Ireland, both at a macro-level in terms of the decline in the institutional power of the Church and at a micro-level in terms of the decline in institutional participation an…
Sexual Transgression and Scapegoats: A Case Study from Modern Ireland
The Republic of Ireland has become known as the Celtic Tiger. For the last five years of the 20th century it has had the fastest growing economy in Europe. There have also been dramatic changes in Irish culture: the monopoly which the Catholic Church held over Irish morality has been broken; there is increased tolerance and acceptance of alternative sexuality. But it was not long ago that things were very different. This article tells the story o…
The double bind: Women, honour and sexuality in contemporary Ireland
Irish women are caught in contradictory sexual discourses which create a cultural double bind. The legacy of Catholic Church teaching, in which the sexual honour of women revolves around their innocence and subservience, still lingers. This is gradually being replaced by media messages and images which portray women as sexually equal and independent. However, the media also portray sexually independent women as a threat to sexual moral order. The…
Church and Culture in Catholic Ireland
Church and Culture in Catholic Ireland Tom Inglis There was a time, not long ago, when the Republic of Ireland was a homogeneous society and culture. The vast majority of the people were white, English-speaking and Catholic. Over the last fifty years, the cultural map of the country has changed dramatically. Ireland has become a multi-national, cosmopolitan, globalised society. There has been a shift in the balance of institutional cultural power…
Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular
A central task in sociology is to make links between the micro world of events in everyday life and wider social structures and long-term processes of change. This is particularly evident in studying the impact of globalization on local cultural life. I argue that case studies are a good method for making connections between the micro and the macro. I use an example of a study of globalization I conducted in a village in Ireland. However, I also …
Women and the Struggle for Daytime Adult Education in Ireland
Yes, but think, there was a time when you couldn't want anything. You weren't allowed to want anything, you were a woman. Things have changed drastically since 1970. People who wanted something were strange. There was something wrong with you. All women want things, but they don't know what they are allowed to want to have. They don't want to stand out like a sore thumb and belong to anything. I mean even to belong to adult education now is reall…
Global Ireland: Same Difference
Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ago it was one of the poorest and most traditional countries in Europe, yet now it is one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan. Using a number of cas…
Women and the Struggle for Daytime Adult Education in Ireland
Yes, but think, there was a time when you couldn't want anything. You weren't allowed to want anything, you were a woman. Things have changed drastically since 1970. People who wanted something were strange. There was something wrong with you. All women want things, but they don't know what they are allowed to want to have. They don't want to stand out like a sore thumb and belong to anything. I mean even to belong to adult education now is reall…
Foucault, Bourdieu and the Field of Irish Sexuality
Sociological analysis of Irish sexuality has been notable for its absence. This paper examines the contribution which Foucault's theory of sexuality as a discourse of truth and apparatus of power makes toward elucidating key issues in the history and contemporary field of Irish sexuality. Although Foucault provides good insights into the constitution of a hermeneutics of the self within different ethical regimes, his analysis of sexuality is inad…
Religion and Politics: East-West Contrasts from Contemporary Europe
Sexual Transgression and Scapegoats: A Case Study from Modern Ireland
The Republic of Ireland has become known as the Celtic Tiger. For the last five years of the 20th century it has had the fastest growing economy in Europe. There have also been dramatic changes in Irish culture: the monopoly which the Catholic Church held over Irish morality has been broken; there is increased tolerance and acceptance of alternative sexuality. But it was not long ago that things were very different. This article tells the story o…
Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland
The history of Irish sexuality remains a relatively hidden, secretive area. In recent years some light has been cast into the abyss (Inglis 1998b; McAvoy 1999; McLoughlin 1994; Meany 1991; Walshe 1997; O’Carroll and Collins 1995). Most of the recent grand histories, however, have avoided dealing with sex and sexuality directly and have focused instead on such issues as censorship, the multi-faceted role of the Catholic church, fertility control, …
From Self-Denial to Self-Indulgence: The Class of Cultures in Contemporary Ireland
Catholic Identity in Contemporary Ireland: Belief and Belonging to Tradition1
Holy Catholic Ireland is changing rapidly. Irish Catholics no longer have the same devotion to the Church that their parents had. While institutional affiliation and levels of belief remain high, there has been a decline in practice, particularly in the number going to Mass. This paper analyses recent changes in Catholic belief and practice, compares them with trends among other European Catholics, and links them to findings from a qualitative st…
Global Ireland: Same Difference
Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ago it was one of the poorest and most traditional countries in Europe, yet now it is one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan. Using a number of cas…
The Media and the Catholic Church in Ireland: Reporting Clerical Child Sex Abuse
Insufficient attention has been paid to the relationship between the Church and the media. Using Ireland as a laboratory for study, we argue that the rise of the media as a public watchdog and social conscience of Irish society can be linked to the secularisation of Catholic Ireland, both at a macro-level in terms of the decline in the institutional power of the Church and at a micro-level in terms of the decline in institutional participation an…
Leanne McCormick, Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland
The question remains: did Irish sexual repression run deep and last longer than elsewhere in the West? The answer may have been in doubt up until recently. But the publication of two major inquiries into clerical child sex abuse—the Ryan and Murphy reports—suggest that the Irish were not so much an island of saints and scholars as a breeding ground for some very abnormal sexual behaviours. We know that from the middle of the nineteenth century, m…
Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular
A central task in sociology is to make links between the micro world of events in everyday life and wider social structures and long-term processes of change. This is particularly evident in studying the impact of globalization on local cultural life. I argue that case studies are a good method for making connections between the micro and the macro. I use an example of a study of globalization I conducted in a village in Ireland. However, I also …
Local and National Belonging in A Globalised World
The question of place is becoming more important in an increasingly globalised, cosmopolitan world. Has the global flow of culture and the movement of people around the world meant a decline in the importance of place as a form of identity? Have local, regional and national identities lost their significance for people? The article begins to explore these key issues. In particular it looks at Ireland which, from the 1990s, moved from being relati…
The double bind: Women, honour and sexuality in contemporary Ireland
Irish women are caught in contradictory sexual discourses which create a cultural double bind. The legacy of Catholic Church teaching, in which the sexual honour of women revolves around their innocence and subservience, still lingers. This is gradually being replaced by media messages and images which portray women as sexually equal and independent. However, the media also portray sexually independent women as a threat to sexual moral order. The…
Love
Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic love has become the dominant form of inner-worldly salvation. In Foucault’s terms, it has become a key component in the ‘arts of existence’ and the care of self. In this highly accessible introduct…
Place, Family, and Identity
In and of themselves, places like Castlebay, Mayfarm, and the other localities in which I interviewed people, have no meaning. They are simply geographical areas. For outsiders, like myself, the roads, houses, shops, pubs, and churches do not generate the same emotions as for those live in the area. I did not grow up in the same webs of meaning. There are no personal experiences, no collective memories. I have no understanding of the different pe…
Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland: Webs of Significance
1. Introduction 2. Theoretical 3. Place, Family and Identity 4. Money and Success 5. Politics 6. Sport 7. Religions 8. Love 9. Conclusion
Are the Irish different?
1. Introduction - Tom Inglis 2. Irishness and nationalisms - Sinisa Malesevic' 3. Where is Ireland in the worlds of capitalism? - Sean O Riain 4. Just another bubble economy? - Denis O'Hearn 5. A Catholic vision of Ireland - Bryan Fanning 6. The Irish political elite - Kieran Allen 7. The Irish family - different or not? - Tony Fahey 8. Single women in story and society - Anne Byrne 9. The Irish body - Tom Inglis 10. Sexual abuse and the Catholic…
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(3), pp. 542–543
Church and Culture in Catholic Ireland
Church and Culture in Catholic Ireland Tom Inglis There was a time, not long ago, when the Republic of Ireland was a homogeneous society and culture. The vast majority of the people were white, English-speaking and Catholic. Over the last fifty years, the cultural map of the country has changed dramatically. Ireland has become a multi-national, cosmopolitan, globalised society. There has been a shift in the balance of institutional cultural power…
Webs of meaning: Theories and evidence from contemporary Ireland
Meaning is basic to social life. Without it we are, as Bourdieu put it, like fish out water. And yet, within mainstream sociology, meaning is taken for granted. There are two questions. Is it important to try and get at meaning? And, if yes, how do we do so? In this article, I argue that we have progressed much theoretically from the debate that took place between Schutz and Parsons back in the 1960s. It is as if meaning and structures are opposi…
The slings, arrows and survival of Irish sociology
Religion in Irish Literature and Culture
Contrary to the widespread belief in Ireland's rapid secularisation, religion continues to play a significant role in twenty-first-century Irish culture, though not in the familiar forms of Catholicism and Protestantism. This volume seeks to redress the balance and demonstrate that religion intersects with and informs past and present Irish culture. While writers from Sean O'Casey to Edna O'Brien have challenged religious oppression, Joyce's here…
Sociology (17 works) · Irish and British Studies (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Irish (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works)