Keywords: Northern Ireland
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 17 March 2009
5 Comments
St Patrick holds the Irish in a powerful emotional thrall. Parades all over the world honour the man who brought Christianity to Ireland. This week in Northern Ireland, saintly ghosts of the past have been called upon to bless murder.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 08 December 2008
16 Comments
Most Irish would be content with the suggestion that the push for an Australian Republic was
an Irish plot. When Ireland declared itself a republic 60 years ago, it did
so without the awkwardness of a referendum or political grandstanding.
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AUSTRALIA
Northern Ireland has celebrated a year of normal political life. If St Paul got hit by a bolt of lightning, what persuaded Ian Paisley to change from a brand-name for bigotry into a reasonable human being?
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Michelle Coram
- 13 December 2007
Michelle Coram is an Adelaide lawyer. She has had a number of articles published in Australian Catholics based on travel and her experiences as a volunteer overseas with the Iona and Taize communities and at a reconciliation centre in Northern Ireland.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Michelle Coram
- 12 December 2007
9 Comments
The Camino de Santiago in Spain is over a thousand years old and trodden by tens of thousands of pilgrims each year. But for this pilgrim it was simply a cheap holiday, a sure way to get fit. She wasn't expecting any miracles.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ursula Stephens
- 13 June 2007
16 Comments
This year's anniversaries are reminders of the importance of "sorry" in the reconciliation process. Why is it so hard to admit that most human of qualities, fallibility? Regret, atonement and forgiveness lie very much at the core of spiritual values.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jess Low, Sally Cloke, Rachel Hewitt, Lee Beasley
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the books The Sparrow Garden; The Pyjama Girl Mystery; Stargazing: Memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper and Sacred Space, The prayer book 2005.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Phil Glendenning
- 17 May 2007
Phil Glendenning is the director of the Edmund Rice Centre. He is also the National President of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Daffey
- 02 April 2007
After the dogs and the trots on the pub's TV have been silenced, the musicians arrange themselves around the table. Martin Kelly closes his eyes, plucks his guitar and sings a ballad written at the time when the potato famine was laying waste to Ireland.
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RELIGION
- Ursula Stephens
- 26 March 2007
2 Comments
Even though St Patrick's Day has not yet arrived, I have already received several cards and messages. Some came the old-fashioned way, delivered by the postman, but most were like my friend Colleen's, the virtual variety, and arrived with a "ping' in my inbox.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 24 July 2006
While musing on current events in Lebanon, Brian Matthews' globe of memory begins to spin back to a time and place perhaps not so different to today.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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