Irish spirituality

Spirituality

Mountains, wells, and caves: A look at Ireland’s sacred landscape

In Ireland, relics can also be found in the natural landscape. Holy wells, caves, stones and even mountains have been pilgrim destinations for centuries.

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Lifestyle

13 pilgrim pathways for your next Irish adventure

In times of great uncertainty, we need reassuring anchors to cling to. Links with our ancestors who survived even greater travails become increasingly important and a walk along one of…

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Attending an Easter Vigil

Award-winning content creator Valerie O'Sullivan captures the beauty of Easter vigil at St Mary's Cathedral in Killarney on Holy Saturday.

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The Whole World is Saved by Easter Hope

In this piece, Daniel O'Leary talks about how during Holy Week, many of us fail to see salvation as a communal matter for all God’s people.

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The Holy Week in an Irish Monastery

The Benedictine monks of Glenstal Abbey in Co. Limerick are captured celebrating the Holiest week for Christians by award-winning photographer Valerie O'Sullivan in this exclusive extract from her book.

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Culture

Captivating photographs reveal ‘dark underbelly of Irish rural life’

For more than 40 years, Richard travelled Ireland. His striking images record unique aspects of Irish life that have almost disappeared.

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Opinion

To Love, to Live, to Leave a Legacy

Mary Redmond Ussher called her strength to through breast cancer the ‘Pink Ribbon Path’. Here, her son writes about her experience with the illness.

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Opinion

Christians in Ireland before Patrick

St Patrick - “the man who brought Christianity to our ancestors”. But did he? We analyse evidence that there were Christians in Ireland before Patrick.

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