#clonfert

[theirishaesthete]

Seventy Years Ago...

The charming cathedral dedicated to St Brendan in Clonfert, County Galway has featured here before (see The Traveller’s Rest « The Irish Aesthete). And because Clonfert was, until the 1833, a separate diocese in the Church of Ireland (it remains so in the Roman Catholic church), there was also an episcopal palace, now alas a sad ruin. Standing a short distance to the north of the cathedral, the…

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Je suis la porte / Un cercle est un carré, un carré est un cercle #Clonfert

[bobonbooks]

Review: Brendan

Brendan, Frederick Buechner. New York, Harper Collins, 1987, 2000.

Summary: This is a fictional account of the life of St. Brendan, often known as the Navigator. Buechner traces his life from being taking by St. Erc at one through his early years, the establishment of his leadership in founding Clonfert and in making kings, and most of all his marathon journeys, one lasting seven years.

I grew up…

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[bishopfeed-blog]

I have seen the most abject material poverty in the face of famine and in war torn countries. In Ireland today I witness other forms of poverty. A nation that cannot hold onto young, intelligent, articulate and enthusiastic people experiences poverty; homes that have to say goodbye indefinitely to those that bring laughter and life experience poverty; communities that see its future departing on cars, buses, planes and boats experience poverty. It is a phenomenon which highlights that Ireland is currently experiencing a poverty that is both hard to calculate and articulate.

Bishop John Kirby (Clonfert)