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Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019

1 September 1917: An Orangeman praises Fr Willie Doyle — from the “Remembering Fr Willie Doyle SJ” blog

I while back I marked the feast day of St Vincent de Paul with Fr Willie Doyle, an Irish Jesuit chaplain in World War I killed in the Battle of…

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Posted on April 19, 2019April 19, 2019

“Mars Ever Nearer”, John Jay Speredakos – Chaleuer Magazine

  I liked this poem  by John Jay Speredakos of the recurrent  violent reciprocity of conflict and war. Mars Ever Nearer Twenty millennia ago when we made spears, we did…

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Posted on November 11, 2018November 11, 2018

An Italian poem of World War I – “Last Rite”, Clemente Rebora

The current TLS has a piece by NS Thompson on Italian poets of the First World War, along with translations by Thompson of some of their works. Futurism, which glorified…

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