Peter CostelloQueen of the Hearth
Category: Reviews
Young Ireland – Young Italy
Nation and Nazione
Suffer the little children
Brendan O’ReganYoungsters to the fore on screens
From Russia with hate
Aubrey MaloneJack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jesuits launch online calendar
The Jesuits in Britain have launched an online calendar for 2014 to mark the bicentenary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The calendar features illustrations of 12 Jesuits from across the world who have been active in various ministries over the past 200 years. Stonyhurst alumna Ellen…
Share your ‘divine’ photos online
A new app allows users to share inspirational photos and prayers with fellow Christians. Using divinely is easy, you simply take a photo or choose one from our gallery to get started, add an inspirational filter, include a chapter and verse to your photo by selecting from a variety of themes, and put the perfect…
Special Vatican web ‘widget’ available
The Vatican is offering a special software application that will allow anyone with a website or blog to provide readers with automatically updated news and documents from the Vatican. When installed, the widget opens a small rectangular window with four tabs. Clicking on one provides the latest news from the Vatican, the Pope’s Sunday Angelus,…
The maturing vision of Mary Kenny
This is not an actual autobiography, for a hard working journalist has little time for that, leaving such things to politicians and pop stars. Rather it is a collection of articles covering Mary Kenny’s long and colourful career, her encounters with the famous and notorious in the events of her times, her special friends, and…
Himself alone
J. Anthony Gaughan Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) is one of the unsung heroes of the independence movement. Dublin-born and a journalist by profession, his chief contribution to the struggle for independence was his political writing in the United Irishman and its successor Sinn FÈin. Griffith was an Anglophobe from his earliest years. He joined the IRB,…
Linking culture and commerce
By the Books Editor The heated public debate in Limerick City over the up-coming of City of Culture year and its administration has caused both delight and dismay. It may delight those who think that too much in these hard time is spent generally by the state on the arts. But this is a short…