Ireland
An Irish Camino experience
July 27, 2021
Three Jesuits, including Bishop Alan McGuckian of Raphoe, are helping to establish a new pilgrimage route in Ireland, the Slí Cholmcille in Donegal and Derry
Read moreStudies: Ireland and euthanasia
June 9, 2021
The Summer 2021 issue of Studies contributes to the public scrutiny of issues raised by Gino Kenny's 'Dying with Dignity Bill' in Dáil Eireann
Read moreIrish Jesuits and the London IRA, 1921
February 8, 2021
Damien Burke :: Archival background on Fr William McElligott SJ, whose IRA service medal for the War of Independence years was gifted to the Irish Province recently
Read moreGay Byrne is laid to rest
November 11, 2019
Renowned Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne was laid to rest after a funeral Mass on 8 November. Irish Jesuit Provincial, Fr Leonard Moloney, was the celebrant and homilist
Read moreEvil: the label and the reality
November 11, 2019
KEVIN HARGADEN :: The murder of Ana Kriegel and the rush to demonise the teenage murderers raises profound questions about the way we use the term 'evil'.
Read moreNCI: social justice in the docklands
November 4, 2019
The National College of Ireland, which emerged out of the Jesuit College of Industrial Relations, addresses educational disadvantage among marginalised families
Read moreBrexit, backstop and integrity
October 16, 2018
Jesuit Bishop argues that the 'backstop' proposal is essential in any post-Brexit scenario
Read moreReading the posters of the times
June 27, 2018
KEVIN HARGADEN :: The referendum campaign highlighted the persuasive power of experience and story. These are hugely important, but so too is a metaphysical sense of what it means to...
Read moreGetting under the skin of racism in Ireland
February 12, 2018
KEVIN HARGADEN :: We Irish have no right to imagine that racism is a problem just for other countries, particularly given the way we treat the Travelling Community
Read moreUnique view of early Jesuit Irish mission
December 20, 2017
A recent publication by the Jesuit Archives in Rome provides a unique view of the first Jesuits in Ireland, during the Irish Mission of the 16th to 18th century.
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