The Shrine of Our Lady of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland will be closed on the day of the August 15 feast due to concerns over the pandemic.
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John Hume, who worked to end violence in Northern Ireland, dies at 83
The Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume was seen as the principal architect of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
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Vatican indicates support to exhume babies at Irish home
Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam has said it was a “priority” for him to re-inter the babies’ bodies in consecrated ground.
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An American Jesuit on James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’: obscene, blasphemous and ‘against the natural law’
From 1934: An America editor waited 14 years for his chance, but then he came out swinging against James Joyce.
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Northern Ireland’s experience during ‘the Troubles’ may offer insight into U.S. policing issues
John Murray, a Catholic, said: “The Irish civil rights movement (that served as a precursor to the Troubles) was directly influenced by the African American civil rights movement of the late 1960s.”
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Irish-Americans tempted to condemn today’s protests should remember their history
Black men strung up and lynched by Irish-Americans in New York, in the midst of the Civil War. It turns the stomach to acknowledge, but the truth is unavoidable.
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Northern Ireland’s Legislative Assembly rejects U.K.-imposed abortion law
The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted 46-40 to reject as “extreme” the new abortion law passed by the British parliament, which would be binding upon the province.
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The corporeal imagination of Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’
Class gets placed front and center in this upstairs-downstairs romance between an upper class girl and her maid’s son.
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Irish Dominican who trained as a doctor is back helping fight COVID-19
An Irish Dominican brother from Belfast who trained as a doctor is using his training to help patients during the pandemic in his hometown.
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With St. Patrick’s Day canceled by Covid-19, Irish bishops offer prayers
“The strength of a culture is seen, not when things are going well, but when crisis strikes,” Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry said March 17 in his St. Patrick’s Day homily in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.