artculture

Renewing a friendship between art and spirituality

September 18, 2007

At the recent Arts and Spirituality seminar in Manresa, Michael Paul Gallagher drew attention to our need to re-negotiate our self-understanding constantly, and to the role of narrative, of story-telling,...

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Contemporary Irish art: a view from Cologne

May 11, 2007

Article from AMDG Newsletter

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Poems for Lent

February 19, 2007

These four poems were written by Colm Lavelle SJ. The first two are in keeping with Lent. The third is on the Eucharist (compare Phil 2, 5-11). The final poem...

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Remembering Benedict Kiely

February 19, 2007

Dermot Harte, ex-Belvederian, remembers his friend Benedict Kiely with fondness. Ben Kiely, a well-known journalist and writer, spent one year as a Jesuit novice in Emo, Offaly. Ireland’s brightest contemporary...

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New collection of Fr Browne photos published

December 19, 2006

Fr E.E. O’Donnell SJ has just launched a new collection of photographs by Fr Frank Browne, called Fr Browne’s Galway. The photos are candid snapshots of everyday life in Galway...

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Evie Hone windows relocated to Gardiner Street

September 19, 2006

Brendan McManus reports on the five Evie Hone windows originally in University Hall which will be presented formally in the Ignatian Room, Gardiner Street, on Sunday, 1 October. Five Evie...

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Two schools, two writers, one award

April 19, 2006

A Jesuit connection between Joyce and Beckett has been the premise for a literary award given out each year to a pupil from either Clongowes or Portora, explains Bruce Bradley....

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Tsunami victims remembered at art exhibition

February 20, 2006

Pat Coyle describes the opening of Kingsley Gunatillake’s exhibition in Trinity College Chapel on 3 February. There were anxious moments before Charlie Bird arrived to launch the exhibition, but the...

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“You didn’t know Ignatius was Irish?”

December 20, 2005

Loyola Productions has just brought out a film to commemorate the first Jesuits, AMDG – A World is Not Enough. Paul Campbell describes the project and notes that the actor...

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