Over 400 relatives attend Cemetery Sunday in Dalgan

Over 400 relatives attend Cemetery Sunday in Dalgan

Over 400 relatives of deceased Columbans attended Cemetery Sunday in Dalgan Park on Sunday 11th June 2023. The Mass was celebrated by Fr Donal Hogan with Columbans in Ireland concelebrating. The Prayers of the Faithful were led by Ciaran Murray. His Columban uncle was...
Fr Bobby Gilmore asks: ‘Who are the Excluded?’

Fr Bobby Gilmore asks: ‘Who are the Excluded?’

It always seems to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshift way, know more about life than those who govern. (John Berger) Albert Artwell, Jamaican artist, lived in my area of Jamaica. He was deeply influenced by his Rastafarian...
Address to Meath Archaeological and Historical Society

Address to Meath Archaeological and Historical Society

The Meath Archaeological & Historical Society invited Fr Neil Collins to address them to mark the Society’s Centenary. On Sunday 18 November, Fr Collins gave the following lecture titled: ‘The Columban Odyssey from Dalgan to the Far East –...
Letters from an Irish Missionary in China

Letters from an Irish Missionary in China

The Missionary Society of St Columban and the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St Columban were born from the vision of two young priests whom Providence brought together in the years between 1916 and 1920. Edward Galvin, on loan to the Diocese of Brooklyn,...