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Western People 1.11.22 When I entered Maynooth College to study for the priesthood in 1966, coincidentally it was the year after the Second Vatican Council (1962-5) concluded. That ‘sacred council’,…
The Virgin Mary was already venerated as Mother of God when, in 431, the Council of Ephesus acclaimed her Theotokos (God-bearer). Her role in the mystery of the incarnation was…
Western People 10.1.2024 I’m not too sure who counted them (or how it was done) but apparently 60,000 swearwords were broadcast in Britain last year. It seems a lot but…
Brendan Hoban reviews Michael Paul Gallagher’s “Into Extra Time.”
‘Michael Paul worried that publishing such a personal narrative would seem to inflate his own experience or appear too self-centred and pious and he found writing a book that would be read only when he was dead a strange moment in his life. But he need not have worried. It is, I believe, the most important book he has written.’
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, looks at Archbishop Martin’s recent comments about the future of the church.
“So did he say anything new? Not really. Nothing that most people in Ireland are not saying in parish councils. Or when they’re standing outside schools waiting for their children. Or at pub counters. The sort of things that most priests know though they often won’t admit it even to themselves. Just some realistic thinking out loud on where we are and where we need to be – unusual, it has to be said, for Irish bishops.”
Request: The Country Stations…
Sean Beattie, an interesting request which I hope will bring to light some good results for your History Blog.
Your suggestion of Canon Sheehan was a good one, though so far I’ve found only one relevant chapter in his 1902 novel, ‘My New Curate’. Let Gutenberg be your friend! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20295/20295-h.htm
‘The Project Gutenberg EBook of My New Curate, by P.A. Sheehan.’ (Google, if this link does not work.)
Most of Chapter 8, ‘At the Station’, is devoted to Fr Dan and his new Curate’s slightly eventful house station. Fr Letheby, after a seven-year stint at St Chad’s in Manchester needs to do some adjusting for his new posting to Fr Dan’s parish of ‘Kilronan’. It may be worth doing a trawl through Sheehan’s 1905 novel, ‘Luke Delmege’, which is (I think) also available on Gutenberg.
My old Maynooth classmate, An tAth Pádraig Ó Croiligh, has an excellent prayer-poem, ‘Teach an Stáisiúin’, in his collection, ‘Brúitíní Creidimh’, page 58 (Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2005).
Request: the country stations
William Carleton has a long chapter (p145ff) entitled The Station in his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
Not a novel, but an ethnic sketch (in the form of fiction?)
It can be found on the web.
Request: the country stations
Correction @1:
‘My New Curate – At the Station’ is Chapter 6, not Chapter 8 as I misremembered.
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Many thanks to Fr Eddie Finnegan and Soline Humbert for taking the time to reply and provide two great links which I will follow up now. I may know Fr P Crilly if he is from Co Derry as he was at St Columbs Derry, and thanks for the reference. Sean