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Review: Mary Kenny, The Way We Were: Catholic Ireland Since 1922, Eamon Maher
Review: Mary Kenny, The Way We Were: Catholic Ireland Since 1922, Eamon Maher
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Book review: Mary Kenny, The Way We Were: Catholic Ireland Since 1922 (Dublin: Columba Books, 2022), 450 pages.
The Word According To Flannery O'Connor, Eamon Maher
The Word According To Flannery O'Connor, Eamon Maher
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In her relatively short life (1925-1964), one that was greatly curtailed as a result of being diagnosed with lupus (a disease from which her father also died in 1952), Flannery O’Connor managed to leave behind a literary legacy that continues to fascinate scholars and general readers alike. This is all the more surprising when one considers that the work consists of just two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), along with 31 short stories.
Julien Green (1900–1998): Exploring The Intersection Of Religion And Literature, Eamon Maher
Julien Green (1900–1998): Exploring The Intersection Of Religion And Literature, Eamon Maher
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Jean Sulivan: Prophetic Voice With An Important Message For The Irish Church, Eamon Maher
Jean Sulivan: Prophetic Voice With An Important Message For The Irish Church, Eamon Maher
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The French priest writer Jean Sulivan (1913-1980), whose real name was Joseph Lemarchand, was born in the small village of Montauban-de-Bretagne. He lost his father in the trenches of the Great War, an event that led to the remarriage of his mother out of financial necessity and which came as a serious blow to her young son. He could never fully accept the presence of his step-father in the house even though he knew his mother had had no option other than to remarry if she wanted to hold on to the small farm she rented from a local doctor. …
What Is The Role Of Faith In Our Politics?, Eamon Maher
What Is The Role Of Faith In Our Politics?, Eamon Maher
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Forty years ago this month, Pope John Paul II came to Ireland. I was just beginning my last year in school at Saint Columb's College, Derry. It was a tense time. In the three months leading up to the pope's visit, 36 people were killed in the Troubles - including 16 Catholic and Protestant civilians. In 1979 I went to see the Pope at Drogheda and subconsciously I think his words on that occasion have possibly framed much of my thinking about this evening's theme - the role of faith in our politics.
A Catholic Has No Allies, Eamon Maher
A Catholic Has No Allies, Eamon Maher
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FRENCH literature of the twentieth century was blessed by the r work of writers who were explicitly Catholic while also adorning the cuIturallife of their country. Anew collection by the French Dominican publishing house, Editions du Cerf, of the epistolary correspondence between four of France's best known Catholic literati - Georges Bernanos, Paul Claudel, Francois Mauriac and Jacques Maritain - reveals serious rifts and, at times, a definite lack ofChristian charity in the sentiments these men shared with one another.1 The correspondence centres on Maritain's exchanges with the other three, which is most probably due to the fact that he …
The Half-Life And Death Of The Irish Catholic Novel : In A Country Renowned For Its Catholicism, It Is Unusual The ‘Catholic Novel’ Never Took Root, Eamon Maher
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In Underground Cathedrals (2010), the Glenstal monk and author Mark Patrick Hederman described artists as the “secret agents” of the Holy Spirit: “Art has the imagination to sketch out the possible. When this happens something entirely new comes into the world. Often it is not recognised for what it is and is rejected or vilified by those who are comfortable with what is already there and afraid of whatever might unsettle the status quo”. Reflecting on this position, one wonders to what extent Irish novelists have fulfilled the important role outlined by Hederman. In the past, they definitely did offer …
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland : Religious Practice In Late Modernity Review, Eamon Maher
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland : Religious Practice In Late Modernity Review, Eamon Maher
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Catholic Prophets Who Dare To Advocate Change, Eamon Maher
Catholic Prophets Who Dare To Advocate Change, Eamon Maher
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Some Priestly Depictions In The Work Of John Broderick, Eamon Maher
Some Priestly Depictions In The Work Of John Broderick, Eamon Maher
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Rebel Priests, Prophetic Voices, Eamon Maher
Healing The Pain Of The Past : Ireland's Legacy Of Shame, Eamon Maher
Healing The Pain Of The Past : Ireland's Legacy Of Shame, Eamon Maher
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Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
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Eamon Maher On Jean Sulivan, Eamon Maher
Catholic Guilt : Longing And Belonging In The Fiction Of François Mauriac And John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
Catholic Guilt : Longing And Belonging In The Fiction Of François Mauriac And John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
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Sanctity In The Midst Of Mediocrity : Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest, Eamon Maher
Sanctity In The Midst Of Mediocrity : Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest, Eamon Maher
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The English novelist and convert to Catholicism, Graham Greene (1904-1991), saw the priest as being core to his literary portrayal of Catholicism. The Power and the Glory (1940), published four years after Bernanos' Diary of a Country Priest, is set in a Latin American country, most probably Mexico, which Greene visited in 1938.
Why Such An Interest In Priests?, Eamon Maher
Why Such An Interest In Priests?, Eamon Maher
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Before dealing with any more representations of the priest in modern literature, I thought it might be useful to share some personal experiences which give a context to the origin and inspiration of this series.
Faith In Our Fathers: Can You Believe In Fictional Priests?, Eamon Maher
Faith In Our Fathers: Can You Believe In Fictional Priests?, Eamon Maher
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I was struck recently by an article that appeared in the online section ofthe Irish Times (November 14th. 2015). Written by a priest called Martin Boland, the piece was prompted by the publication of a novel by John Boyne, A History of Loneliness, which has as its main protagonist Fr Odran Yates, who is forced to live in an Ireland where the priest is more likely to be viewed as a paedophile or pariah than as a respected member of society. Clearly a novelist as disaffected as Boyne admits to being with the Catholic Church, would find it hard to …
Review :Thirty-Three Good Men : Celibacy, Obedience And Identity By John Weafer, Eamon Maher
Review :Thirty-Three Good Men : Celibacy, Obedience And Identity By John Weafer, Eamon Maher
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How Different Are The Irish?, Eamon Maher
How Different Are The Irish?, Eamon Maher
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THIS review-article sets about assessing the significance of a new collection of essays edited by Tom Inglis, Are the Irish Different?1 Tom Inglis is the foremost commentator on the factors that led to the Catholic Church in Ireland securing a 'special position' during the ninetenth and twentieth centuries.2 The Church's 'moral monopoly' has effectively been ceroded by a number of recent developments; the increased secularisation that accompanied greater prosperity, the tendency among a better educated laity to find their own answers to whatever moral dilemmas assail them, and, of course, the clerical abuse scandals. But even in the 1980s, and …
Dealing With Human Weakness : Shusaku Endo's 'Silence', Eamon Maher
Dealing With Human Weakness : Shusaku Endo's 'Silence', Eamon Maher
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Following on my recent presentation of the Catholic priest in some work by William Trevor, I have decided to follow up with a few articles for Spirituality dealing with what I consider to be some of the more insightful priestly portrayals that I have come across in world literature. For the first example, one must travel a long distance to find an author who has been dubbed the Japanese Graham Greene, Shusaku Endo (1923-1976). The novel we will be concentrating on is the writer's 1966 masterpiece, Silence.
Jean Sulivan And The Mystical Moment, Eamon Maher
Jean Sulivan And The Mystical Moment, Eamon Maher
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Tracing The Imprint: Catholicism In Some Twentieth Century Irish Fiction, Eamon Maher
Tracing The Imprint: Catholicism In Some Twentieth Century Irish Fiction, Eamon Maher
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In a seminal article published in Studies in 1965, Augustine Martin noted now Irish writers were characterised by what he termed 'inherited dissent', a tendency that led them to replace their original religious faith with blends of the mystical and aesthetic:
Reflections Of A Layman On The Ryan Report, Eamon Maher
Reflections Of A Layman On The Ryan Report, Eamon Maher
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The Ryan Report on abuse of children in institutions of the state which were run by religious orders caused outrage and confusion among all the people of Ireland, both members of the Catholic Church and others. In the aftermath of the immediate shock and the widespread media coverage, it seems useful to reflect on the roots of the problems that gave rise to these horrors and to try to set out a way forward which might help to avoid such things happening in the future. Tony Flannery set about seeking views, comments and analysis which might add some breadth and …
Island Culture: The Role Of The Blasket Autobiographies In The Preservation Of A Traditional Way Of Life, Eamon Maher
Island Culture: The Role Of The Blasket Autobiographies In The Preservation Of A Traditional Way Of Life, Eamon Maher
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The Blasket Islands, located off the west coast of Kerry, are remarkable for having inspired a flourishing literature, mainly autobiographical in nature, which is generally acknowledged as being of great anthropological value, as well as of significant literary merit. When one considers that the islands never had a population of more than around 160 persons (with an average of closer to half that number) during the years covered by the autobiographies, the existence of such an important chronicle of the simple and at times perilous life on these Atlantic outposts is all the more noteworthy. The language spoken on the …
John Mcgahern And The Commemoration Of Traditional Rural Ireland, Eamon Maher
John Mcgahern And The Commemoration Of Traditional Rural Ireland, Eamon Maher
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An Introduction To The Life And Works Of Jean Sulivan (1913-1980), Eamon Maher
An Introduction To The Life And Works Of Jean Sulivan (1913-1980), Eamon Maher
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"An Outsider's View Of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq's Atomised", Eamon Maher
"An Outsider's View Of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq's Atomised", Eamon Maher
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Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
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Catholicism And National Identity In The Works Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
Catholicism And National Identity In The Works Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
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