Fifty years is a long time. In 1964 University of California students…
About the Author: Denyse O’Leary
Denyse O’Leary is an Ottawa-based author, blogger, and journalist.
Category: Articles (page 22)
The loneliness of the middle-aged man
It made for a bold headline when the Boston Globe published an…
About the Author: Helena Adeloju
Helena Adeloju is editor of Family Edge. She writes from Melbourne, Australia.
Some thoughts on Tuam
Introduction The controversy that has erupted over the Tuam mother and baby…
About the Author: The Rev Patrick G Burke
The Rev Patrick G Burke is the Church of Ireland rector of the Castlecomer Union of Parishes, Co Kilkenny. A regular contributor to Position Papers, he was formerly a broadcast journalist with the Armed Forces Radio and Television Network. He blogs at thewayoutthere1.blogspot.ie.
Leave morality out of lawmaking and you’re left with what?
At a recent debate on abortion in NUIG, a professor of Law…
About the Author: Luisón Lassala
Luisón Lassala is Philosophy graduate from UCD (1987) and co-founder of Philosophy Ireland.
Fatima: one hundred years on
This month sees the centenary of the first of the apparitions of…
About the Author: Pat Hanratty
Pat Hanratty is a retired Science/Chemistry teacher and lives in Dublin.
Book review: Abbey Girls
The authors are both scientists. Valerie has a PhD from McGill and…
About the Author: Fr Conor Donnelly
Fr Conor Donnelly qualified as a medical doctor in University College Dublin in 1977 and worked as a house physician and surgeon for one year at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He was ordained a priest in 1981 for the Prelature of Opus Dei. He obtained a doctorate in Theology from the University of Navarre, Spain in 1982. He is at present the chaplain of Kianda School for Girls, Kenya.
Film review: The Promise
The relatively little-known genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Turks…
About the Author: Joseph McAleer
Joseph McAleer is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service. Copyright (c) 2017 Catholic News Service. Reprinted with permission from CNS. www.catholicnews.com
Ireland’s historical amnesia
“Who controls the past controls the future” George Orwell wrote in Nineteen…
About the Author: Tim O’Sullivan
Tim O’Sullivan studied History and French at UCD in the 1970s and later completed a doctorate in social policy on the principle of subsidiarity. He is a regular contributor to Position Papers.
Death of a father of eighteen children
In the end it was brief – all too brief. Between diagnosis…
About the Author: Andrew Larkin
Andrew Larkin is teacher, musician and music critic based in Dublin. He is also director of Family Enrichment Ireland.