Ireland

Dark Days in Northern Ireland

Abortion and gay marriage have entered Northern Ireland by the back door. Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2019

A New Saint on St. Stephen's Green

Ireland needs a devotional revolution and the inspiration of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2019

My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Home by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 223 pages, $24 Irish artists face a problem unknown to artists in, let us say, uninterrupted nations. It is possible for things, places, people to be “too Irish”—the gist of a note I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Redeeming the Time
with St. Patrick

by Terence Sweeney

Why love this world? Because it was in this world that we fell in love with God and it is only in this time that we can help other hearts turn to God. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2019

The Most Anti-Christian Country on Earth

by John Waters

A government report in Ireland calls for crucifixes to be removed from hospital walls. Continue Reading »

6 Mar 2019

The Mystery Parenthesis

by John Waters

Irish culture no longer supports any intelligence of the transcendent. Continue Reading »

23 Aug 2018

Fanon’s Warning

by John Waters

Alienation and Freedom by frantz fanon edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young translated by steven corcoran bloomsbury academic, 816 pages, $29.95 In the ferment of the present moment, with its surging floods of migrants and its ostensibly gratuitous but historically . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018