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Naomh Pól i mBéal Feirste

October 28, 2008

The Year of St Paul is getting special treatment as Gaeilge in Belfast. Alan McGuckian’s weekly Seminars in Cultúlann MacAdam Ó Fiaich on the Falls Road are all given over...

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So you can’t forgive?

October 28, 2008

Brian Lennon has just completed a book, So You Can’t Forgive…? Moving Towards Freedom, which he hopes will be published in the New Year. It is based on his experience...

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Madrid Summit

October 28, 2008

Twelve new Provincials were among those who gathered with John Dardis just outside Madrid for the annual meeting of the European Provincials. Ireland makes a big contribution through Dermot O’Connor...

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SJ alumni in Vienna

October 28, 2008

The Irish Jesuits, though they run six schools, have no Federation of graduates. However two Irishmen, Michael Sheil SJ and Dr Ray Murphy (respectively the Past President and the incoming...

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Father Browne’s Dublin

October 28, 2008

It is twenty years since Eddie O’Donnell SJ, using Fr Frank Browne’s photographs, produced “Annals of Dublin”, which quickly became a best-seller. Now the Currach Press has brought out a...

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TY makes a difference

October 28, 2008

Oliver Murphy (pictured) was appointed as Transition Year Co-ordinator and Year Head at Belvedere College in the summer of 2007. Now, just fourteen months into the job, he reflects on...

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Kevin’s goodbye

October 28, 2008

On Thursday 23rd October 2008 Fr Kevin O’Rourke’s kith and kin and fellow-workers gathered in the Mission Office to celebrate his twelve years of dedicated service and to thank him...

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Guns near Goma

October 28, 2008

Gerry Clarke SJ in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo) asks for our prayers. The war is coming closer. The rebels are within twenty miles of the JRS camp, and there...

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Short Notices

October 28, 2008

Two entrants from Leeson Street ran the Dublin Marathon. For Terry Walsh SJ, a 57-year-old New England Jesuit who teaches philosophy in Heythrop College, London, this was his 14th Marathon;...

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Hession session

October 24, 2008

Coláiste Iognáid, the Jesuit school in Galway, held a benefit concert on Thursday, October 23, where a number of local and international artists played with the school orchestra and choir...

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