Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
Filed under religion …
Recalling Daniel Mannix
Morgan’s book, The Mannix Era, is richly personal. It is written with considerable charm and an acerbic wit. But to read it in 2019 is to be overwhelmed by its masculinist perspective. Continue reading
Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office Archives.
The records of the Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office constitute one of the most valuable collections of original source material for research into Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Continue reading
Casey, you’re the divil
In the eyes of many he ‘fell from grace’, but he maintained a silent dignity to his grave. Continue reading
O’Donnell’s Autobiography – Book Launch
Nicholas was was a Gaelic scholar and one of the founders of the Celtic Club. Continue reading
The Josephites Remembered
The Letter Under The Pillow offers a detailed outline of how a diverse group of women helped develop a religious order in countries far from their Irish home, Continue reading
Keneally tackles clerical abuse
this is a book that puts a human face on a serious and painful problem. Continue reading
Daniel Berrigan SJ, peacemaker, poet and priest,
The peacemaking legacy of Daniel Berrigan, S.J Continue reading
Celts at the British Museum
The objects presented here give a sense of peering through chinks in remote historical time, gaining privileged glimpses of a little known world. Continue reading
Dissonant Voices: Faith and the Irish Diaspora
‘I now believe that the spiritual life is deeply political’ p.175.
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