Irish Papist

Last Christmas, I had an article in Ireland's Own on the incredible story of the Meredith Victory , a ship which evacuated more 14,000 ...

Over the years, I've written several posts in which I've tried to memorialize various things I've experienced. For instance, I w...

I was once listening to an interview on RTE radio in which a foreign visitor described Ireland as a "toytown".  She didn't mea...

Well, it's almost our national holiday, and church choirs all over the country are limbering up their vocal chords, preparing for a rous...

I don't think I've ever written a post about eating and drinking. Yesterday, I was in a café looking at people eating and drinking, ...

I've mentioned the US Airways model on my desk before. (My life isn't very interesting.) I think I bought it about eight or nine yea...

The ashes bespeak the emptiness hiding behind the frenetic quest for worldly rewards. They remind us that worldliness is like the dust that ...