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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“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…
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…
Séamus Sweeney 