Damien Burke
Commemorating the sesquicentenary of the arrival of Irish Jesuits in Australia
September 17, 2015
The Jesuit Archives record the role of the Irish Jesuit mission to Australia from 1865 to 1931 in the building up of the Catholic Church and Catholic education in Australia.
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Anzac, archives and the bullshit detector
May 6, 2015
DAMIEN BURKE :: Six Jesuits, five of them Irish-born, served with the Anzac forces at Gallipoli. There are good reasons to commemorate this ill-fated event. Jingoism, however, is not one...
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Irish Jesuit chaplains in the First World War
December 15, 2014
At a time of great turmoil at home in Ireland, thirty-two Irish Jesuits signed up to minister to Catholic soldiers on the European battlefields of the First World War. Damien...
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Jesuit Chaplains of World War I
October 3, 2014
Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First World War, (Messenger Publications) edited by Damien Burke, assistant archivist to the Jesuit Province, was launched on Friday 17 September, by Roisin Duffy of...
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A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church
October 1, 2026 - Fr Brendan McPartlin SJ joins a prayer service at Drumcree, as renewed tensions bring Portadown’s historic divisions back into focus.
WWII – ‘A humanitarian disaster on a global scale’
October 1, 2026 - Bryan Dobson launched 'The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The Case of Europe (1939-1945)', a book co-edited by Damien Burke, Irish Jesuit Archivist.
Clongowes students shares about his faith
October 1, 2026 - Twelve-year-old Clongowes student Anthony Buday won the National Knock Basilica Art Competition with his model of the basilica made of sugar cubes. He has a singular devotion to Mary.
October Messenger: Mission, ministry and spirituality
September 29, 2026 - Holiness, mental health, the power of the rosary, and the potential of Halloween - just a few of the articles in the October edition of the Messenger magazine
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