Short Notices

November 10, 2009 in General, News
  • canonbrowne_01There is a Jesuit link in the significant appointment of Canon Pat Browne as the first Catholic chaplain to Britain’s Houses of Parliament. A late vocation, Pat graduated from the  Mungret Apostolic School in 1967-68, and is remembered as a lovely guy and talented singer, who won a Feis Ceoil award as a tenor.
  • From Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta (FÁS): Ba mhór againn tú a bheith i láthair nuair a chomóraimid saothar na n-údar ar fhoilsigh Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta a gcuid leabhar le dhá bhliain anuas: Séamas de Vál,  Éadáil Ní Choinn; Helen Ó Murchú, Ceisteanna na Linne; Pádraig Ó Croiligh, Rún na hEaglaise; Mairéad Ní Bhuachalla RSC, Slí Chun Dé; Séamas de Vál, Frank Duff; agus Alan Mac Eochagáin SJ, Scéal an Oilithrigh. Beidh Cathal Goan inár measc chun na leabhair a chur i láthair agus an obair atá curtha i gcrích a cheiliúradh. Dé Máirt, 17 Samhain 2009, 6.00 i.n., 35 Sráid Líosáin Íochtarach, Baile Átha Cliath 2.
  • In the Rite and Reason column of the Irish Times today, 10 Nov, Brendan Butler provides background and commentary on the murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador on 16 November 1989, twenty years ago next week.

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