104 years ago today, the Titanic sank with the loss of 1,514 lives. A lot of the media coverage of the …
WWI
April 15, 2016
Carole Hope will be in Dublin this coming Saturday to give a talk about Fr Doyle’s experience during the Hulluch gas attack …
April 13, 2016
Today we continue some of Fr Doyle’s narrative from early April 1916. These gruesome events occurred on April 1 1916, 100 years …
April 2, 2016
John McCormack had just finished the last bars of ‘She is far from the land’ (Note: on a gramophone) which brought …
April 1, 2016
Fr Doyle recorded the following incident relating to this day 100 years ago. It was his first night sleeping in a dug …
March 31, 2016
You will be glad to know, as I was, that the ninth edition (90,000 copies) of my little book Vocations is rapidly …
March 29, 2016
On Spy Wednesday evening after Benediction, I told the men I wanted nine volunteers to watch an hour during the following night …
March 23, 2016
I started at seven in the morning by giving Holy Communion to the men whose Confessions I had heard the previous evening, …
March 19, 2016
Though the life is perhaps the very last I would choose humanly speaking, I am ever so happy and contented, because I …
March 15, 2016
On the way I noticed that heavy firing was going on ahead, but it was only when I reached a bend in …
March 5, 2016