In the opening vignette of the ‘Wandering Rocks’ episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Father John Conmee S.J. strolls from Dublin’s Mountjoy Square to the North Circular Road, on his way to a Christian Brothers’ school in Artane, to help a family in distress, while intermittently musing about the good work the Catholic Church has done not only in Dublin but even on the missions in far-off Africa.
The Death of the Irish Canon
Irish parents and grandparents should recognise that their children’s future is being shortchanged by the same deception that led France from 1789 to Waterloo.
