
Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: St Anne: Apocryphal Maternal Theology and the Forgotten Matriarch
St Anne: Apocryphal Maternal Theology and the Forgotten In this final Advent reflection, I turn now to St Anne, mother of Mary and grandmother of

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Anna the Prophetess: The Politics of Presence in the Temple
Anna the Prophetess: The Politics of Presence in the Temple (Luke 2:36–38) This reflection is the third in my four-part Advent series, which seeks to

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Elizabeth: Prophetic Blessing from the Domestic Threshold (Luke 1)
This reflection is the second in my four-part Advent series, which seeks to recover the often-overlooked women at the heart of salvation history. I turn

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Rethinking Advent through Hidden Matriarchs
This Advent, I begin a four-part reflection series focusing on the often-overlooked figures in the Christmas story. As we light the Advent candles each Sunday,

Food Security and Insecurity: Lessons from medieval Irish towns.
The terms ‘food security’ and ‘food insecurity’ have been in use since the 1970s and were formally defined by the first World Food Summit in

Pope Leo XIV and the Generative Age: Tradition, Technology, and the Next Chapter in the Catholic Social Tradition
Thursday’s election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, American by birth and shaped by his many years of missionary ministry in Peru, as Pope Leo XIV

‘To visit my mother’ (?): Returning to Ireland during the revolutionary period, 1916-1923′ by Dr Regina Donlon
During the revolutionary era, 1916-1923, a total of 21,754 Irish-born immigrants resident in the United States applied for a passport to visit Ireland. The majority

‘Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision and the State that we are in’ by Stephanie Hanlon
Conference on Direct Provision Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision and the State that we are in Background to the Conference: On Friday 8th November,

‘What history tells us about health panics’ by Dr Ida Milne
Adults in huddles, worriedly discussing a mystery disease the newspapers have been warning is on the way. Children eavesdropping, sensing the fear that is being hidden