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A week when Maynooth was the only show in town
Brendan O’Regan
Oh well, that didn’t last long. Last week Catholic euphoria over World Youth Day gave way to Catholic agony over the Maynooth controversy. Predictably, the few Irish clerics and seminarians involved in that kerfuffle garnered a lot more media attention than the thousands of enthusiastic young Irish Catholics that attended World Youth Day. I suppose…
Can we say what we like, when we like?
Studies Summer 2016. Special Issue: Freedom of Speech. How Far Can You Go? (Messenger Publications, €10.00)
The little lessons of life are very important too
Life Lessons: Fifty Things I Learned in My First Fifty Years by Patrick Madrid (Ignatius Press / Augustine Institute, US$16.95; also available as a eBook download; or by order from Veritas)
Plunkett – an enigmatic revolutionary
Enigmas of Sacrifice: A critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin insurrection of 1916 by W.J. McCormack (Michigan State University Press, €20.16 pb / €43.91hb)
Nurturing the seeds of Mercy
With World Youth Day behind us nowadays, the question obviously is “what’s next?” The Catholic youth festival is clearly an extraordinarily enthusing time, loaded with spiritual, catechetical, evangelising and social content, but most realistic Catholics recognise that if our youth ministry is directed solely towards such marquee events without looking beyond them, then the seeds…
Cries from the rubble of the Rising
Voices from the Easter Rising, Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó hAodha (Merrion Press 2016)
An Ulster poet lost to sight
Louis MacNeice: In A Between World by Christopher J. Fauske (Irish Academic Press, €29.99pb / €70.00hb)
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Paul Keenan
The pain and glory of the cathedrals
Aquatic odyssey yields an assortment of riches
Aubrey Malone
Finding Dory (G)