Greg DalyThe Church’s attitude to the Rising was far more complex than newspaper reports suggested at the time, Greg Daly discovers
Month: December 2015
Christmas boom times are back
Courtney McGrailDear Editor, It was interesting to read your front page story last week (‘Families need secure homes this Christmas – Archbishop’) in which Archbishop Eamon Martin called on the Government to do more to help indebted families who are dreading the financial pressures of Christmas. There seems to be a Celtic Tiger sense of giddiness…
Muslims too are our brothers and sisters
Dear Editor, The Paris atrocities have been widely covered on media reports and rightly so since nobody wants to see innocent people being murdered. However, I hope that in future we will see more balanced coverage of the air strikes now taking place against ISIS. In the TV reports covering the French response we were…
Screening 1916
Aubrey MaloneAubrey Malone reviews some key portrayals of the Rising on the silver screen
The pick of the Christmas season
Brendan O’ReganChristmas with Collin Raye EWTN, Saturday, December 19, 11am Country music star Collin Raye and Andrea Thomas presents some of the most cherished songs of the Christmas season. Christmas Big Sing BBC 1, Sunday, December 20, 4:45pm A feast of carols and festive music from the Royal Albert Hall as star guests Ronan Keating, Alexander…
Jesuits condemn removal of South African finance minister
The Jesuit Institute South Africa has expressed its concern about President Jacob Zuma’s removal of Nhlanha Nene as the country’s Minister of Finance, claiming that the decision “spells disaster for the stability of an embattled economy” and raises questions about President Zuma’s ability to lead the country. Although finance minister for just over 18 months,…
Govt must not ‘interfere’ with ethos of faith schools
Mags GarganBishops have warned the Minister for Education not to “interfere with the ethos of faith schools” after she proposed plans to remove rules regarding religious education in national schools. Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan announced plans last week to remove Rule 68 and 69 from the Rules for National Schools next year. Rule 68 states…
The last surviving child of a 1916 leader
Mags Gargan looks at the life of Fr Joseph Mallin SJ
The reawakening of a nation
The bare bones of the 1916 story can be simply told. Unionist opposition to the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 led to the signing of the Ulster Covenant by almost half a million unionists and the January 1913 formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), willing, if necessary, to take up…
As seen by The Irish Catholic…
Mags Gargan describes how this newspaper reported on the Rising in the weeks after the insurgency