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Studies: The pity of war
July 1, 2015
"We are in a season of momentous commemorations," begins the editorial of the summer issue of Studies, alluding to the centenary commemorations of the First World War, the event which...
Read moreElizabeth Foley speaks about The Sacred Heart Messenger magazine
June 22, 2015
Irish Jesuits · Elizabeth Foley speaks about The Sacred Heart Messenger magazine Elizabeth Foley promotions coordinator with The Sacred Heart Messenger talks to Michael Comyn on Sunday Spirit on RTÉ...
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Finding God in grief
June 3, 2015
'Walk with me into the Light: Some Comfort on the Journey Through Grief', is a new and practical booklet from Messenger Publications written by healthcare chaplain Margaret Naughton for the...
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A memoir full of gratitude
audio May 6, 2015
Catherine McCann, lifelong friend of recently deceased Jesuit Charlie O'Connor, has just published 'In Gratitude: The Story of a Gift-Filled Life', a memoir of what Tom Casey SJ calls 'an...
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‘From Easter Week to Flanders Field’
April 15, 2015
John Delaney SJ walked the streets of Dublin during Easter Week 1916 and served as a chaplain in WWI. His story is told in Jesuit historian Thomas Morrissey's latest book.
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Studies on Heaney and Behan
March 25, 2015
Two giants of modern Irish literature – Seamus Heaney and Brendan Behan – are remembered in the leading articles of the Spring 2015 issue of Studies. And the two of...
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New book elucidates Jesuit ‘way of proceeding’ in education
January 23, 2015
“A meditation by people in the field” is how Professor Daire Keogh described The Characteristics of Jesuit Education when he launched the book edited by Brian Grogan SJ, in St...
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A biography of Bishop James Corboy SJ, by Tom Layden SJ
January 13, 2015
Irish Jesuits · A biography of Bishop James Corboy SJ, by Tom Layden SJ Irish Provincial Tom Layden’s speech at the launch of ‘The Man called James Corboy: Irish Jesuit...
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Studies on Irish identities
October 7, 2014
There have always been issues concerning Irish identity. For centuries what dominated was the distinction between the native Irish and, first, the colonisers and then the Anglo-Irish.
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Bruce Bradley SJ on the story of Irish Jesuit Journal ‘Studies’
March 5, 2014
Irish Jesuits · Bruce Bradley on the story of Irish Jesuit Journal ‘Studies’ Studies is a Jesuit periodical founded in 1912. Its aim was to make a real contribution to...
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