Topic: Ireland

A Great Civilization The Celts, as we have come to know them in the last century, existed thousands of years ago, from the eighth century B.C. in central Europe. These themes, astonishingly, resonate back through to the Irish, Scottish and Welsh Celtic ...
Irish symbols from the Celtic cross, the Shamrock and Saint Patrick are known around the world. Saint Patrick has been elevated above Irish Catholic legend to world wide folklore. Irish Catholics remember him as the man who converted Ireland to Christianity.The most ...
Orange Parades infiltrated by Catholic Ghosts?On July 1?So what kind message does was that?The third generation of that family then looked on, in a cultural education lesson, young fluent Irish speakers now resident in a Gaeltacht, an Irish language speaking area of ...
The Ireland that St. Patrick first met in the early 5th century was a land without cities or literacy. He became a priest, then a bishop and decided to return to Ireland as a missionary.That the bloodthirsty Irish put down their battleaxes ...

St Patricks Day

March 17th is St. Patrick's Day, a holiday honoring St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland who died on March 17th (the exact year is unknown but is believed to be around 460 A.D.). Originally a religious holiday celebrated in Ireland, it ...
" However, the 2nd movie is equally as good!The two boys have been in hiding with their father, Il Duce (Billy Connolly), in Ireland, hiding away from their past vigilante lives. A beloved priest has been killed by evil men from within ...

Scot-Irish - The Other Irish

Patty Inglish's Hub, Orange on St. Patrick's DayWhile the majority of the population of the Irish Republic is Roman Catholic there is also the Protestant majority in the North of Ireland in the six counties that chose to remain a part of ...
People today remember him as the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland and to whose memory we toast with green beer on March 17. While held as a slave, Patrick had a dream where he was called to be the ...

Past and Present

When I was growing up, a priest was a respected figure and even feared by some parishioners. In old traditional Ireland, pictures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus could be seen hanging on every wall, along with crucifix crosses, rosary beads and ...
The late nun who is soon to become Australia's first Catholic saint was briefly excommunicated by the church in part because she exposed a paedophile priest, a new documentary claims.Mary MacKillop, who will be canonised by Pope Benedict XVI next month, is ...