For fifteen months Fr Doyle and I worked together out here, generally sharing the same dug-outs and billets, we became fast friends. …
WWI
September 9, 2025
By cutting a piece out of the side of the trench I was just able to stand in front of my tiny …
September 9, 2025
Today we continue the narrative and consider the events of September 4, 1916. Next morning there was a short march over the …
September 4, 2025
The above image was published in an Irish newspaper at the end of 1916. The priest is unidentified, but we can well …
September 3, 2025
The following praise for Fr Willie appeared in the Glasgow Weekly News on 1 September 1917. It was written by a Belfast …
September 1, 2025
The following was written about Fr Doyle by Sir Percival Phillips, the famous war correspondent, and appeared in the Daily Express on …
August 22, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
The feast of the Assumption was an important date for Fr Willie. He made his religious vows on this day in 1893, …
August 15, 2025
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, 2025