Irish Papist

Apologies for the lack of posting recently. There are lots of reasons for it but partly it's because I feel like I am at a cross-roads i...

(If you like the words of this hymn, and you are a musician and would like to try putting an air to it, please contact me.) I saw twelve c...

Here is a piece I wrote last All Saints' Day , and which got a better reception than almost anything else I've written. And today,...

It's been a while since I posted any poetry. Here are some more of my old ones, from 2005. I haven't written any poetry in months. I...

To my surprise, I noticed today that my all-time visitor statistic has just broken the two hundred thousand mark-- two hundred thousand and ...

I took down my recent (and incomplete) series on the pleasures of the essay, because nobody seemed to be reading it. However, a reader was k...

I've posted the latest five instalments of my Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton column from the Open Door magazine on the blog of The ...