Irish Papist

The worldwide web is a big place, but I imagine everybody has their own fairly restricted "beat". Here's mine. I don't rea...

My father liked to quote these lines from The Merchant of Venice: The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sw...

Ice-creams to celebrate Ireland finally coming out of lockdown, if all-too-slowly... We had dinner in the 777 restaurant in George's Str...

The second issue of Leaven , the new online Irish Catholic magazine, is now available. It's a very handsome, professional and well-round...

This is a blog post I wrote a couple of years back but never published. I'm not sure why I didn't publish it, since it seems complet...

Ireland's cinemas have been closed for pretty much the entire duration of the Covid-19 lockdown, aside from a short spell when they reop...

My father, Peadar Kelly, died in May 2019. This is an article he wrote in The Ballymun News, a community newspaper (later magazine) that he ...