This “Godot” is more brisk and playful than most, with one irresistible (if inadvisable) “Bill & Ted” reference.
Ireland
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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.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
New Age weddings on the rise in Ireland as Catholic marriages decline
While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in prominence.
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Thousands of tourists flock to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day. But one figure is missing: St. Patrick.
Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Ireland each year for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. But in the midst of the concerts, parades and art installations, one figure is strikingly absent—Patrick himself.