DAMIEN BURKE :: For Jesuit chaplains in the First World War, Armistice Day meant decisions had to be made.
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Jesuits and the influenza, 1918-19
Jesuits and their schools were not immune to the ravages of the influenza outbreak which killed 100 million people just after World War I
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Damien Burke :: A new BBC documentary on the Battle of the Somme explores the letters, postcards and personal possessions of Jesuit chaplain Fr Willie Doyle held at the Irish Jesuit Archives.
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DAMIEN BURKE :: Six Jesuits, five of them Irish-born, served with the Anzac forces at Gallipoli. There are good reasons to commemorate this ill-fated event. Jingoism, however, is not one of them.
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