“It really brings out the worst part of you.”
The story behind the republication of this book is in some ways as interesting as its content. As explained in the prologue, in 2007 Damien Richardson found a hard back copy of Fr. Dennis Murphy’s book, which was originally published in 1896, while cleaning out a house in Dublin. Damien was almost ten years into […]
Reek Sunday climb
High court challenge.
Sometimes historical anniversaries throw up interesting items. Examples of irony perhaps, or maybe indications as to how much things have altered over the course of time. On Friday evening, Sinn Féin was the main political party which took part in what was effectively a picket of a Catholic Church in Ballyfermot. They and others may […]
A massacre of Nigerian Catholics last Sunday has gone without comment from BLM
Speculation ahead of trip
How Zorro was based on this Irish anti-slavery adventurer
Slaughter
Colm Meaney writes on the on the feast of Pentecost
Assumptions.
The ‘controversy’ of the National Maternity Hospital is causing people to lose their minds. The most visible manifestation is the minor demonstration in front of the Dail of a few hundred disgruntled activists wearing silly clothes and carrying silly signs. The prominence given to the small gathering by all major news outlets indicates that they […]