We continue the narrative from O’Rahilly’s biography which recounts the events of September 5, 1916. Please note: this excerpt reveals the true …
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September 5, 2023
Today we continue the narrative and consider the events of September 4, 1916. Next morning there was a short march over the …
September 4, 2023
The above image was published in an Irish newspaper at the end of 1916. The priest is unidentified, but we can well …
September 3, 2023
The following praise for Fr Willie appeared in the Glasgow Weekly News on 1 September 1917. It was written by a Belfast …
September 2, 2023
The following was written about Fr Doyle by Sir Percival Phillips, the famous war correspondent, and appeared in the Daily Express on …
August 22, 2023
On this day in 1917, 4 days after Fr Willie’s death, Fr Frank Browne, the famous photographer and Jesuit military chaplain, wrote …
August 20, 2023
My Martyrdom for Mary’s Sake. Darling Mother Mary, in preparation for the glorious martyrdom which I feel assured thou art going to obtain …
August 16, 2023
The feast of the Assumption was an important date for Fr Willie. He made his religious vows on this day in 1893, …
August 15, 2023
Today we have the last of Fr Doyle’s narratives from his letters home to his father in August 1917, less than a …
August 11, 2023
We return today to Fr Willie’s narrative, and get some glimpse of the horror of war, and the comfort that the presence …
August 10, 2023