Columbanus Summer Festival in Clonard

Columbanus Summer Festival in Clonard

The annual Columbanus Cultural and Heritage Summer Festival is due to take place on Saturday 2nd September 2023 in Clonard, Co Meath. This is the third year of the festival which is aimed at empowering local communities to take responsibility for the promotion,...
Fr Austin McGuinness

Fr Austin McGuinness

Fr Austin McGuinness was born on 25th November 1940 at Clonard, Co Meath. He was educated at Clonard N.S. and Belcamp College, Dublin. He entered Dalgan in September 1959 and was ordained priest on 21st December 1965. Austin was appointed to Korea in 1966. Over the...
Conference in Dalgan on SS Finian, Colmcille and Columbanus

Conference in Dalgan on SS Finian, Colmcille and Columbanus

A one-day conference will take place on 28th March 2020 in Dalgan Park on the relevance of Saints Finian, Colmcille and Columbanus for Ireland and Europe today. Organised by the Association Friends of St Columbanus and the Columban Ecological Institute, the conference...
A Tale of Two Dalgans

A Tale of Two Dalgans

Dalgan Park in Co Meath has become synonymous with the Columban missionaries in Ireland. But before the Society moved there in 1941, there was another Dalgan Park in Co Galway as Fr Norman Jennings explains.