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Saturday, 20 December 2025

"I prefer far to save my soul, to become possessor of the entire world”: Sir John Bourke of Brittas

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Although there is no consensus in the sources about the year, prominent County Limerick landowner Sir John Bourke (Burke, de Burgo) of Britt...
Thursday, 8 May 2025

'A Great Fire in the Midst of the Town': The Burning of Our Lady of Coleraine

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The iconoclasm which accompanied the Reformation was one of its most distressing aspects for Catholics in Ireland. In some places the destru...
Saturday, 8 March 2025

'Ready to Suffer All Kinds of Torments for the Faith of Christ': Margery Barnewall

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March 8 is International Women's Day, when a spotlight is shone on great women from history and their achievements. The woman I am honou...
Wednesday, 22 January 2025

The Ruined Abbeys in Ireland

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An 1889 article syndicated in the Australian press looks at the legacy of the historic Irish abbeys left either in ruins or in Protestant ha...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

'A Powerful Man': Father Daniel Delany

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  The martyrdom of Arklow parish priest, Father Daniel Delany, in 1653 has a number of interesting features. First, we learn that at the tim...
Friday, 31 May 2024

'The Glory of Martyrdom': James Eustace, O.Cist.

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Cistercian Monk   The Cistercian Order, introduced to Ireland as part of the reform of the Irish church in the twelfth century, contributed ...
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Tuesday, 31 October 2023

A Higher Court

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  A HIGHER COURT. Many times in the course of history, says the Ave Maria , men have been forced to appeal from the injustice of man to the ...