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Milltown welcomes adult learners to come and look
January 29, 2008
Working in tandem with the AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival, the Milltown Institute is holding an Open Evening on Tuesday 5 February to introduce its adult education courses. It extends an...
Read moreStrings to his bow
January 29, 2008
Colaiste Iognaid student Finn Gormley was featured in last week’s Sunday Tribune as he not only plays left wing for the Connaught Under-18 Schools Rugby, but he also is the...
Read moreDistinguished thinker speaks at Milltown
January 29, 2008
One of the world’s leading thinkers on religion and science, Dr John Polkinghorne, will give a public lecture in the Milltown Institute on the theme of ‘Human personhood: the context...
Read moreInsight into theology of Pope Benedict
January 28, 2008
Michael Paul Gallagher SJ will give an insight into Pope Benedict XVI’s theology in a lecture in St Mary’s University College, Falls Road, Belfast, on Tuesday 29 January 2008. The...
Read moreGalway rows
January 22, 2008
A former student at the Coláiste Iognáid was one of the 14-man rowing crew which broke the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing. Ray Carroll has been rowing since he...
Read moreSports history conference
January 15, 2008
Boston College-Ireland, a branch of the Jesuits’ Boston College, is holding a one-day conference on Sports History at their Dublin campus on St Stephen’s Green next February 16. Most of...
Read moreArchbishop commends Institute for decades of engaging with culture
January 15, 2008
The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, paid tribute to the work of religious in building Irish society. Speaking at a mass to launch Milltown Institutes’s celebration of forty years, the...
Read moreEncountering the Creator
January 15, 2008
Heythrop College is running a five-day Jesuit Theology School in Ushaw College, Durham, for Jesuits and their co-workers from the British and Irish Provinces. It runs from Tuesday 25 March...
Read moreBelvedere put rugby collection on show
January 8, 2008
Belvedere’s unique collection of rugby books and programmes, the Ray Carroll Rugby Collection, has been catalogued and housed in the Jesuit Library. Recent visitors – Edmund Van Esbeck (Irish Times), Seán...
Read moreMarriage of spirituality and sexuality
January 8, 2008
Milltown Park is the venue for a two-weekend seminar on spirituality and sexuality. It will be given by Ab Straatman, a Dutch homeopath who has founded the Irish School of...
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The challenge of co-creating
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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