This second edition of the Inclusion of Students of Different Beliefs in Catholic Secondary Schools arises out of an acknowledgement that the make-up of the Catholic school population in Ireland has continued to change ...

In 2007, a new model of state-run primary schools was established in Ireland in response to the growing pluralism in this country. These are publicly-managed, multidenominational schools with the Irish state, through the ...

This article presents the findings of a two-year research project investigating four hundred third-level Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students’ perceptions of the religiously unaffiliated in Ireland. The research was ...

This article overviews the contemporary context for teaching RE in Ireland and profiles changing religious demographics in an increasingly secular context. It presents the findings of a two-year mixed-methods study undertaken ...

The population in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter, Ireland) has become increasingly diverse over the past two decades. New demographics in terms of culture, language and belief systems are enriching her once relatively ...

In recent decades every census in the Republic of Ireland has given a snapshot of the rising number of people who self-identify under the category of ‘No Religion’. In 2016, one in ten people in Ireland belonged to this ...