IrishCentral saints and sinners - b5cc3275d518416eacb61d676e8d84d1 http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/saints+and+sinners IrishCentral saints and sinners en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the-celtic-times/in-the-footsteps-of-saints-scholars-and-sinners---a-celtic-camino-128065538.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the-celtic-times/in-the-footsteps-of-saints-scholars-and-sinners---a-celtic-camino-128065538.html In the footsteps of saints, scholars and sinners - A Celtic camino (IrishCentral) Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:25:21 PDT
Confessio Patricus, the written confessions of St Patrick, have a special resonance today, in this the age of damning reports from Raphoe to Cloyne on an infected church in an era of overwhelmingly disinterested, disconnected younger generations and demoralized older onesPatrick apparently was an unbecoming upstart figure to his clerical peers in the mid fifth century, and the Confessio was all about setting the record straight from his own perspective A fifth century tribunal response, if you like, where the once enslaved Briton shepherd boy of part Roman stock (some sources indicate Kilpatrick, near Glasgow was his birthplace) sets down in his own hand the circumstances that led to his mission to Ireland and how he went about answering the callIndeed Dáibhí Ó Croinín a superb lecturer who could entice 9am attendances on hazy Friday mornings in Galway, quipped that Patrick, must have been the only citizen of the Roman empire to have been made a slave and live to tell the tale READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishAmerica/A-Night-for-Saints-and-Sinners--125590063.html http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishAmerica/A-Night-for-Saints-and-Sinners--125590063.html A Night for Saints and Sinners (IrishCentral) Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:13:26 PDT By: KATHLEEN ROCKWELL LAWRENCE

Edna O’Brien threw down the gauntlet straight away. In discussing her latest collection, Saints and Sinners, at Glucksman Ireland House on May 31, she explained that Miss Gilhooley, the romantic librarian in the story “Send My Roots Rain,” had tried to organize literary evenings but found that “people only came because of the wine and the canapés after.”

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