The Irish Times

Thinking Anew – A time to renew body, mind and spirit

Sat Mar 06 2021 - 00:01

Thinking Anew – Trusting the slow work of God

Sat Jan 16 2021 - 00:01

August Diehl: ‘Acting with Malick you are part of a band making music’

German actor on preparing for A Hidden Life with the unconventional director

Mon Jan 13 2020 - 05:00

Fr Tony Coote was ‘the ultimate connector’, funeral hears

Brother tells congregation motor neurone disease campaigner ‘left on his own terms’

Mon Sept 02 2019 - 20:29

Fighting Words partnership aims to harness creativity in the classroom

Partnership with DCU will see creative approaches embedded in teacher training

Sun Sept 30 2018 - 23:06

The importance of relationships and belonging

The importance of attending to our personal relationships and to the communities we belong to

Sun Mar 04 2018 - 16:01

Irish voices to a Chinese ear

A young Chinese poet delighted by the contemporary Irish poetry scene.

Sat Jan 23 2016 - 17:03

Thomas Merton: the hermit who never was, his young lover and mysterious death

John Cooney, former Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, concludes his profile of the great Catholic mystic and bestselling author, suggesting his death was suicide

Mon Nov 09 2015 - 12:52

Thomas Merton: from wayward youth to man of God

John Cooney traces the unlikely journey of the poet and spiritual writer, born of bohemian parents, who fathered a child as a Cambridge student before becoming a monk

Fri Nov 06 2015 - 13:13

Breda O’Brien: Americans singled out by pope have one thing in common

All shared an intense consciousness of the centrality of God in their lives

Sat Oct 03 2015 - 01:06

Ken Bruen: Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel

How Ireland’s first true crime writer went from hawking his own books around Galway pubs, to rubbing shoulders with some of the best crime authors in the world

Mon Aug 10 2015 - 11:30