Presentation of lifetime award to Fr Kevin O`Rourke

Presentation of lifetime award to Fr Kevin O`Rourke

The award was presented by the President of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea to Fr Liam O’Keeffe on 10 December 2020 to mark Fr Kevin O’Rourke’s contribution to Korean literature. The award is made up of a citation and an inscribed...
Saying goodbye to my friend Fr Patrick Murphy

Saying goodbye to my friend Fr Patrick Murphy

From my youth I developed a strong friendship with the Columban missionaries that ministered in Jeju (Korea). Fr Patrick Murphy was in Mosulpo and I became a long-time friend, writes Kang Kyung-Sue [Andrew]. One afternoon at the beginning of summer the two of us sat...
Funeral of Korean scholar Fr Kevin O’Rourke SSC in Seoul

Funeral of Korean scholar Fr Kevin O’Rourke SSC in Seoul

Columban missionary Fr Kevin O’Rourke, Korea’s first foreign literary scholar who translated more than 2,000 Korean literary works into English, has been laid to rest in Seoul. Fr Kevin died on 23 October aged 81 and his funeral was held on 26 October at the...