The Legion of Mary, which remains the largest lay organisation in the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Dublin on this day, September 7th, 1921, by Frank Duff, and celebrates 99 years in existence today. Almost a century after it was founded in a small room on Francis Street, Dublin, the Legion of Mary has […]
St. Ultan was the Bishop of Ardbraccan, near Navan, in Meath in the seventh century. His feast day is the 4th September. His life and death is recorded in most of the Annals and in the Martyrology of Aengus. Ardbraccan (Irish “Hill of Breacan”) is an ancient place of Christian worship taking its name possibly from a […]
“I had a gun on the table…I didn’t want to be alive anymore.”
Quack.
Still on the run.
Galway girl won hearts of nation
“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