Ireland

Irish 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

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Gay 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

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Evil: 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'.

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NCI: 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

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Brexit, backstop and integrity

October 16, 2018

Jesuit Bishop argues that the 'backstop' proposal is essential in any post-Brexit scenario

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Reading 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...

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Getting 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

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Unique 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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The ‘normalcy’ of homelessness

November 16, 2017

KEVIN HARGADEN :: The recent spate of harsh language around homelessness expresses a dangerous trend in our society. This is something Christians should be furious about.

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Don’t blame Christians for Stephen Fry ‘blasphemy’ nonsense

May 17, 2017

No specific religious group wants Ireland's blasphemy law. The Stephen Fry fracas merely distracts from the real causes of scandal in Ireland.

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