I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, Enniskillen 30 Years on: Geraldine Smyth on Forgiveness and Mercy in the Public Square.
Author: Gladys Ganiel
Bowdoin Report on How Some (But Only Some) Church Leaders Helped Build Peace in Northern Ireland
There is a report on the Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine, USA) webpage about a public lecture I gave there last month, ‘How Some (But Only Some) Church Leaders Helped Build Peace in Northern Ireland.’
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‘John Calvin, Pray for Us’: Fr Gerry Reynolds and the Reformation in Ireland; & Panel Discussion Tomorrow on Talkback
On Wednesday, my contribution to Evangelical Alliance’s ‘500 Project’ will be published. The 500 Project is a series of blog posts marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and considering its legacy on the island of Ireland and … Read more...
Review of Maher and O’Brien’s ‘Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism’
Review of David Bolton’s ‘Conflict, Peace and Mental Health’
Prof Catherine Maignant on Fr Tony Flannery – Vatican Sanctions have increased ‘his aura and influence’
One of the more intriguing chapters in a new book edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond (Manchester University Press 2017), is written by French academic Catherine … Read more...
Dermot Keogh on The Catholic Church and the Irish State – ‘It is better to begin to rebuild anew’
One of Ireland’s leading historians, Dermot Keogh, Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, was a keynote speaker at the ‘Irish Catholicism on Trial’ conference, held 6-7 October at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, in Dublin.
Keogh’s topic was
… Read more...Tom Inglis Reviews ‘Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland’: an ‘insightful & intelligent book’
Tom Inglis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, has reviewed my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (Oxford, 2016) in the academic journal Journal of Contemporary Religion, V32(3) September 2017.
I have reproduced portions … Read more...
Clerical Voices from Irish Catholicism on Trial – Flannery, Hederman & Claffey
Last week’s conference on ‘Irish Catholicism on Trial’ at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, in Dublin provided a platform for a variety of voices. Among them was a panel of ‘clerical voices,’ whose critiques of the Irish Catholic Church provided … Read more...
How Religion Still Matters in a Post-Catholic Ireland – Text of Keynote
Last week I had the opportunity to give a keynote address at a conference on ‘Irish Catholicism on Trial,’ a multidisciplinary event at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght. The title of my lecture was ‘Understanding Post-Catholic Ireland: Does Religion … Read more...
Brexit & What did the Reformations Ever do for Us? Events at Agape
There are two interesting events coming up at the Agape Centre (Belfast South Methodist, 238 Lisburn Road).
On Monday 16 October the Rev Dr Johnston McMaster continues his ‘Thinking Aloud’ series on ‘Imagining Northern Ireland Beyond Brexit,’ 7-9 pm, with … Read more...