Monday, 1 February 2021

'After her victory Saint Brigit departed this life..'

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After her victory saint Brigit departed this life amid choirs of patriarchs and prophets and apostles and martyrs and all the holy men and v...
Sunday, 31 January 2021

Saint Bridget in Ireland

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  Tomorrow will be the feast of Saint Brigid and the article below describes for an expatriate audience many of the folk customs associated ...
Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Apostle of Scotland and Patron of Ireland

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Today is the feast of Saint Colum Cille and to mark the occasion I reprint below a newspaper article from 1905.  The author, who signs ...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2020

The Story of Saint Patrick - A Legend in Verse

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To celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, below is a poem describing his life by a nineteenth-century priest ministering to an Irish expatriate ...
Saturday, 1 February 2020

The Mary of the Gael

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Today to celebrate the Feast of Saint Brigid we have an account of our national patroness from the 1920s which was among a stash of inter...
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Thursday, 22 March 2018

The Bachall Ísu at the Founding of Armagh

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Although in recent days we have been looking at the  Bachall Ísu in relation to Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, it was once the prize...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Did the Staff of Jesus Survive?

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Yesterday we looked at the sources suggesting that the Bachall Isú, the Staff of Jesus   had been publicly burnt in Dublin during the Ref...