This 12-mile walk is a choice for me, my sister and my niece; all of us have traveled many miles to be here today. But walking is also what people do when they have nothing left to lose.
Ireland
Posted inCommunity
A Jesuit Pilgrimage to Québec: New France, New Church
We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to join editor in chief Sam Sawyer, S.J., and Québec City Jesuits on America’s summer 2026 pilgrimage, “New France, New Church: A Jesuit Pilgrimage to Québec, Mother See of North America.”
Posted inTheater
Why ‘Waiting for Godot’ is worth reviving—with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter
This “Godot” is more brisk and playful than most, with one irresistible (if inadvisable) “Bill & Ted” reference.
Posted inCommunity
Join us: A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland
We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to join editor in chief Sam Sawyer, S.J., and literary editor James T. Keane on America’s spring 2026 pilgrimage to Ireland, “The Land of Saints & Scholars: A Journey into the Heart & Soul of Ireland.”
Posted inDispatches
Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations
Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about escalating deportations.
Posted inShort Take
Can Ireland keep its tradition of military neutrality in the era of Trump and Putin?
Ireland’s long tradition of military neutrality is being tested by Russia and by the Trump administration’s shaky support for NATO.
Posted inFaith, News
As excavation begins at Irish maternity home, Catholic experts urge fact-based news reporting
Amidst the excavation of a former Irish mother-and-baby home, Catholic experts are urging journalists to carefully fact-check their reporting after many prior accounts of the issue have featured erroneous details.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Seamus Heaney’s hidden spiritual life
Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
What makes a movie Irish?
Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How Trump’s tariffs are threatening this Irish Christian art workshop
Trump’s tariffs hit an unlikely target—handmade Irish Christian art—and echo an ancient struggle over the sacred across borders.