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Reflecting on Jesuit times past
November 20, 2019
After reading through the 'Irish Jesuit Annual Letters' published recently, Bill Toner SJ reflects on the shape of Jesuit life in 17th century Ireland
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New book on Newman
October 9, 2019
Messenger Publications is marking the upcoming canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman with the publication of a concise biography by Fr Michael Collins
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Strong Irish presence at Jesuit studies symposium
August 2, 2019
Participants at an archivist conference in Boston College heard about four-hundred-year-old letters of St Ignatius found inside the columns of an altar to Our Lady in 2016
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Dom Eugene Boylan: monk, scientist, writer
July 10, 2019
Irish Jesuit historian Todd Morrissey has produced his 20th book, a biography of Cistercian monk and spiritual writer, Dom Eugene Boylan
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The Jesuits in Northern Ireland
April 9, 2019
Brian Mac Cuarta SJ, director of the Society's archives, addressed a conference recently on Jesuit initiatives in community development in Northern Ireland
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Studies winter issue: Ireland 1918-2018
December 5, 2018
The winter issue of Studies commemorates two centenary events – the 1918 armistice and the first Dáil
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Clongowes crozier goes on display at National Museum
November 21, 2018
Clongowes has given the 1,000-year-old 'Prosperous crozier' to the National Museum on indefinite loan
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The last parting: Jesuits and Armistice
November 11, 2018
DAMIEN BURKE :: For Jesuit chaplains in the First World War, Armistice Day meant decisions had to be made.
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The greatness of Oscar Romero
October 10, 2018
On 14 October, Pope Francis will canonise Blessed Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran archbishop who was martyred on 24 March 1980
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Latest Studies marks Reformation anniversary
December 20, 2017
There is some truth in the idea of the Tudor Reformation as a kind of 16th-century religious Brexit, according to articles in the latest Studies
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