Following my post a few days ago about the relative lack of canonised Irish saints from the past 500 years, Fr Gabriel Burke has started a series with short biographies of some Irish causes for canonisation. It is worth a look: http://frgabrielburke.blogspot.com/
Fr Doyle links
January 13, 2011
I just stumbled across the following reference to Fr Doyle in World War 1 discussion forum. It comes from a book entitled The Cross on the Sword: Catholic Chaplains in the Armed Forces by Johnstone, Hagerty and Walmsley: Fr Fitzmaurice had received the MC for service at Messines Ridge in 1917, and was mentioned in despatches; he was also recommended for the French Legion d’Honneur for ‘constant bravery and endurance’, …
December 14, 2010
Fr Frank Browne SJ Fr Frank Browne SJ was a friend and colleague of Fr Doyle’s during the war, serving alongside him in the trenches. He is mentioned several times throughout O’Rahilly’s biography. We have already mentioned Fr Browne in other posts, for instance here http://fatherdoyle.com/2010/08/02/thoughts-about-fr-willie-doyle-for-august-2/ Fr Browne survied the war, and took thousands of photographs of Irish life over the next 40 years. Here is a link to a …
November 25, 2010
I came across the following review of a book about the Irish in the Great War which mentions Fr Doyle: http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/68/itemId/6605/A-vivid-picture-off-our-forgotten-war-heroes.aspx Details of the book can be found here: http://www.obrien.ie/book889.cfm
November 18, 2010
Fr Bernard McGuckian SJ, writing in this month’s edition of the Sacred Heart Messenger, refers to Fr Doyle in some advice he gives a reader. The article can be accessed here: http://www.messenger.ie/November_2010/Your_Questions_Answered-58-_Carrying_the_Cross_ia.aspx
November 12, 2010
The blog Idle Speculations has some details about military chaplains in World War 1, including some details about Fr Doyle, as well as some interesting photographs of other chaplains during this period. It is well worth checking out. http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2010/08/todays-memorials.html
August 5, 2010
There is a new post about Fr Doyle, in connection with the closing of the Year of the Priest, on the website of St Conleth’s Catholic Heritage Association.
June 12, 2010
There are two pamphlets by Fr Doyle that seem rather hard to find. If anybody can provide some information on where they might be found I would be very grateful for the information, either by posting a comment or sending an email to frwilliedoyle@gmail.com The two pamphlets are Synopsis of the Rubrics and Ceremonies of Holy Mass and Retreats for Workingmen: Why not in Ireland? If I can locate them …
June 9, 2010
The Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit blog has a brand new post on Father Doyle, this time containing the full text of one of his last letters, written just a few days before he died. You can read the post here: http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2010/06/fr-william-doyle-sj-chaplian-of-battle.html
June 9, 2010