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Missions day out

July 9, 2010

The annual day-out of the Jesuit Mission Office on 30 June had a motley group of missionaries, friends, volunteers and Mission Office staff descend on some of the best known...

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Short Notices

July 9, 2010

The sub-title of Fr Todd Morrissey’s latest book on Fr Tom Ryan (the launch was noticed in our last issue) was From Cork to China and Windsor Castle, Last week Fr...

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Forthcoming events

July 9, 2010

24 July: 2-Peak Wicklow Challenge: McVerry Trust fundraiser – see Short Notices above 24-30 July: Hopkins International Festival opens in Newbridge College, 4 p.m. on 24 July. See programme on...

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St Ignatius day celebrations

July 9, 2010

Jesuits around the world will mark the feast day of  their founder St Ignatius of Loyola,on Sat 31 July.  In Dublin, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will celebrate a special  Mass in...

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Not-so-‘final curtain!’

July 9, 2010

Historian Todd Morrissey SJ launched the third volume of Fr Kevin Laheen’s History of Tullabeg, The Final Curtain, in Milltown Park on Wednesday 30 June, now available in the Sacred...

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Belvedere is fast

July 9, 2010

Belvedere College SJ continued their dominance of the All-Ireland schools athletics championships this year. They were once again the overall winners of the Science cup, which is the trophy presented to...

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Irish Jesuit in top publishing post

July 9, 2010

Irish Jesuit Paul Campbell has been made Publisher of Loyola Press, the Jesuit publishing company in Chicago whose titles include the 100,000-copy bestseller My Life with the Saints by James...

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JESUITICA: The unstoppable Pere Marquette

July 9, 2010

A century ago the states of Michican, Ohio, Indiana and Ontario, in USA and Canada, saw many locomotives and rail ferries named after a Jesuit. The Pere Marquette Railway operated in...

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Leeson Street century

July 9, 2010

It is a hundred years since the Jesuit community in what is now Newman House moved round the corner to 35 Lower Leeson Street; they would later acquire Numbers 36...

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