Gerard Gallagher reflects on the importance of WYD and the “amazing events that have helped to shape a generation in faith”
The road to Krakow
Month: July 2016
The World of Books
Courtney McGrailAfter writing recently about the Battle of Verdun and the literature of the Great War, I decided that as the anniversary of the Somme would be well marked by State and media, no reference to it would be needed here. But my mind has been changed by the publication of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into…
Joyce’s real Dubliners
The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses: A Biographical Guide by Vivien Igoe (University College Dublin Press, €40.00hb)
Aspiring visions in Ireland before the Rising
Peter Costello
Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age 1900-1916 by Dr Éimear O’Connor and others (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, €10.00)
Garden paths and secret side-lines
Brendan O’Regan
I don’t often watch garden makeover programmes, but when I do I’m usually impressed. On Tuesday of last week I enjoyed Love Your Garden (ITV/UTV). In this series presenter Alan Titchmarch does makeovers for people with special needs in the broadest sense. Last week it was the turn of Hari Budha Maga, a former Gurkha…
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Aubrey Malone
Maggie’s Plan (15A)
Sources of morality
Cathal Barry
It’s an error to judge the morality of human acts by considering only the intention that inspires them, writes Cathal Barry
It needs servicing but EU isn’t a banger
Dear Editor, Paul Gracey (IC 14/07/2016) writes that describing the EU as a stable and accountable body is “like passing off a broken-down old Volkswagen as a Rolls Royce”. It’s an amusing image, but even if it were fair, it doesn’t for one moment tackle how post-Brexit Britain is preparing to embark on a journey…
Fr Jamie Twohig Ordination
Fr Jamie Twohig SAC, at his ordination on Saturday, July 16, in St Joseph’s Church, Little Island, Cork, accompanied by the Pallottine Provincial Fr Derry Murphy SAC, his grandfather Dan Twohig, his mother Clodagh, Bishop John Buckley of Cork and Ross, and Fr Michael Irwin SAC.
Liturgy jaw-jaw better than war-war
Dear Editor, It was refreshing to read the thoughtful comments of Fr Hugh Kennedy and the Latin Mass Society’s Michael O’Donovan in response to Cardinal Robert Sarah’s call for priests to celebrate the Mass facing East (‘Back to the Future?’ IC 14/07/2016). Too often debate on these matters has a kneejerk character that’s dogmatic in…