Video Highlights Deep Ireland-Korea Bond

Video Highlights Deep Ireland-Korea Bond

The Columbans feature as one of the early bridge-builders between Korea and Ireland in this video. It includes interviews with Columbans who served in Korea, tributes to the seven Columban martyrs who died in the Korean War (1950-53) as well as a visit to Dalgan and...
New Memorial Honours Columbans Who Died a Violent Death

New Memorial Honours Columbans Who Died a Violent Death

Columbans and relatives gathered in the cemetery in Dalgan on Sunday 27th of September for the blessing of a new Memorial dedicated to those Columbans who died violent deaths while on mission, writes Fr Ray Husband. The Memorial was in the pipeline for many years so...
Laudato Si Inspired Projects Flourish in Dalgan

Laudato Si Inspired Projects Flourish in Dalgan

As we continue to celebrate the Season of Creation through various activities and events this month, we look at some of the projects inspired by Laudato Si’ which the Columbans in the region of Ireland have undertaken.  In 2015, Pope Francis published ‘Laudato...
Jubilees Celebrate “Lifelong Commitment” to Columbans

Jubilees Celebrate “Lifelong Commitment” to Columbans

On the 15th August, the Feast of the Assumption, Columban Missionaries gathered in Dalgan to celebrate this year’s jubilees – platinum, diamond, golden and silver jubilees. Fr Seán McNulty was the homilist at the Jubilee Mass in Dalgan Chapel. We reproduce his...
Columbans Interviewed for Missionaries Documentary

Columbans Interviewed for Missionaries Documentary

Since St Columba and St Columbanus Irish missionaries have followed the example of our ‘saints and scholars’ in taking their faith to every corner of the known world. At the peak of the Irish missionary movement, in the 1960s, over 6,000 Irish Catholic missionaries...