I’ve come into Oxford on a quiet August day and as I’ve been reading Elizabeth Bowen’s A Time in Rome over these days of excessive heat, my mind has wandered to her links with this city and its university, remembering that I have previously said that some day I’ll take time to dig into theContinue reading “Bowen in Convocation”
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A Brag for Summer
I admit that it wasn’t my idea but as my life in philanthropy and development has featured a lot of beer I was very pleased when a cheering summer brew crossed my desk at Campion Hall in Oxford. The Hall is named after Edmund Campion, the foremost scholar in Oxford of his time who becameContinue reading “A Brag for Summer”
Volunteers for Tolpuddle
Some of you may have noticed that I have been sharing information on my social media channles about events at the Old Chapel in Tolpuddle, Dorset. I joined the trustees of the Tolpuddle Old Chapel Trust a year ago and have been chairing the board since the last AGM in June. I first heard aboutContinue reading “Volunteers for Tolpuddle”
Charles Plater SJ and the Lamb and Flag
I am not the landlord of the historic Lamb and Flag pub on St Giles’ in the heart of Oxford. Owned by St John’s College and on its current site since 1613, the pub featured in episodes of Morse, was a favoured watering hole for Graham Greene in his student days, and might be theContinue reading “Charles Plater SJ and the Lamb and Flag”
Soul Therapy
Notes on the development of a form of pscyhotherapy practised by priests at the Kneipp clinic at Worishofen in the late 19th Century and early years of the 20th Century I’ve shared a few pieces from a dissertation I wrote some thirty years ago, but only recently I realised that I haven’t provided any ofContinue reading “Soul Therapy”
The Ports and Harbours Tribunal in Killybegs, 1926
Transcript of Newspaper Report on The Ports and Harbours Tribunal in Killybegs, provided here for local history researchers Published on the 21st October 1926 Why Killybegs Port Failed, Traders’ Case Before Tribunal, Railway Promises Concessions From our Special Correspondent The Ports and Harbours Tribunal sat in the Marine Industrial School here to-day, and took evidenceContinue reading “The Ports and Harbours Tribunal in Killybegs, 1926”
Sweet Memories
It’s summer and the icecream parlour beckons. If it’s available my choice will always be rum and raisin, and the first taste will bring me back to Killybegs and a taste memory from my childhood. My grandparents kept a tin of sweets on a shelf above the cooker and the only sweets that were everContinue reading “Sweet Memories”
A hermit, a lighthouse, a hidden garden
Saint Rotain. Apparently I spent a good chunk of my youth looking out at their hermitage. That is, if the saint ever existed for there simply is no real historical evidence. But if they did then the rock on which the saint lived was part of the view from my grandfather’s house for it wasContinue reading “A hermit, a lighthouse, a hidden garden”
Industrial Mission – thoughts on the 80th anniversary
2024 marks the eightieth anniversary of the founding of Sheffield Industrial Mission. There are many accounts of industrial mission’s history, and also some very good work appraising its impact, not least an article by David Price, chair of Industrial Mission in South Yorkshire, published in Crucible in 2004. At its pinnacle Industrial Mission was ecumenical,Continue reading “Industrial Mission – thoughts on the 80th anniversary”
Virginia Crawford on Catholic Social Teaching and Action
An online search for material related to Catholic social action in the early twentieth-century produces an article by Virginia M Crawford. Published in the September 1922 edition of Studies, the Irish quarterly review published by the Irish Jesuits since 1912 with a focus on Irish social, political, cultural and economic issues. Crawford’s article is aContinue reading “Virginia Crawford on Catholic Social Teaching and Action”
Colin Brady 