A Holy Well in Kilcash Wood?
Kilcash Wood is a Coillte site in the village on the lower slopes of Slievenamon. I guess climbing Slievenamon takes the focus away from here as a walking destination. It…
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Oisin Kelly frieze and Stained Glass from Church of St Theresa, Sion Mills, Tyrone
The exterior of the Church of St Theresa in Sion Mills is most notable for a frieze of the Last Supper by Oisin Kelly: Detail: Inside there are some interesting stained…
A prayer of gratitude for creation – Fiona Murdoch, Eco-Congregation Ireland
On the Irish Franciscan’s Praying Nature page, there is a section of “eco prayers”: A Franciscan presence and spirit requires living a way of life that cherishes Gospel values as St. Francis…
Emma Holland on the resurgent popularity of pilgrimage
On the website Thinking Faith, Emma Holland has an interesting piece on the resurgence of popularlity of pilgrimage. I’ve blogged a lot here about Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” a book which is…
“Be Still”, Agnes Hunt RHSM – poem in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford.
I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…
Corncrake in UCD 1982
The autum 2018 issue of Wings, the magazine of BirdWatch Ireland, has a piece on the avifauna of University College Dublin‘s Belfield campus. For those unfamiliar this is in the…
Torture in Clogheen
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
All-Ireland Pollinator Plan: call on Faith Communities to help pollinators
As this page points out, faith communities tend to own and manage considerable land (also quite spread out round the country). It is good to see this kind of outreach…
Séamus Sweeney 