Monthly Archives: March 2013

Today, with my friend and Pretani colleague Helen Brooker, I attended in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin the launch of their book Towards Commemoration. How should we commemorate the past? What are the potential benefits and dangers? How … Continue reading →

I attended with my friends Eddie and Zoe Irvine and Helen Brooker. Stuart Baillie writes: I’m at The Strand cinema in east Belfast, one of 150 people who have gathered here to witness Van Morrison, back on the scene. He once featured … Continue reading →

St Patricks Weekend Festival Belfast, Northern Ireland    March 16 & 17, 2013 Europa Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland   17-March-2013 Europa Hotel  Belfast, Northern Ireland I attended with my friend and colleague Helen Brooker and Malcolm McClean from Stornoway. Brendan … Continue reading →

In 1979 I published in Bangor my book on Bangor, where I was born and went to school. I entitled it “Bangor, Light of the World” because of the reference in the Hymn to St Patrick in the Seventh Century Bangor … Continue reading →

SEE BELOW & Attached – You will be welcome!    The Irish Association For Cultural Economic and Social Relations   President Rev Brian Kennaway   www.irish-association.org             Members, come and bring your friends to our St. Patrick’s Eve Lunch  On … Continue reading →

St Patrick  In 398 AD St Ninian had established the first Christian Church in what is now Scotland at Candida Casa (now Whithorn) in Galloway. Although little is known about this great Christian Saint of the Novantes, or the earliest … Continue reading →

To Dr Ian Adamson OBE and Mrs Helen Brooker (Pretani Associates)    

St. Patrick’s Abiding Legacy Fr. Seán McDonagh, SSC I am often saddened that the binge drinking and buffoonery which often accompanies events around St. Patrick’s Day, often prevents people from understanding what St. Patrick achieved in Ireland and the abiding … Continue reading →