Friday Links
March 14, 2025
Port na Bláich, Co Donegal, Ireland
From St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to the Sisters of Life: A Legacy of Grace, Unbroken
Claudel's Poetics: A Cosmic Word of Praise w/ Dr Thomas Pfau - Canon 211
Thomist Poets Reading Series with Zina Gomez-Liss
Donal Ryan Wins An Post Irish Book of the Year
“Mo Mhíle Stór” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill translated by Heaney
From St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to the Sisters of Life: A Legacy of Grace, Unbroken
This is a wonderful history (including some amazing photographs) of how the Sisters of Life ended up in NYC, from Jeffrey Bruno’s Substack Words & Pictures. You’ll want to browse through the archives, too, to find other stories about Catholic faith and life.
Claudel's Poetics: A Cosmic Word of Praise w/ Dr Thomas Pfau - Canon 211
Thomas Pfau joins Jake Fowler and Fr. Michael Rennier on the Canon 211 podcast to discuss Paul Claudel.
Thomist Poets Reading Series with Zina Gomez-Liss
Join the Thomist Poets Reading Series this Sunday, March 16, at 7pm EST to hear Zina Gomez-Liss read from her work. As an appertivo, here’s one of recently published poems, “Tell-Tale,” which appeared in New verse Review.
Donal Ryan Wins An Post Irish Book of the Year
This is oldish news, but Ryan is an excellent fiction writer we don’t hear much about in America. If you’re looking for some Irish writing for St. Patrick’s Day, you cannot go wrong with his work. Heart, Be at Peace is Ryan’s most recent novel, the second of his books to win the A Post Irish Book of the Year Award. I recommend starting with The Spinning Heart, which won, among other accolades, the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
“Mo Mhíle Stór” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill translated by Heaney
And for some Irish poetry, Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Irish language poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, “Mo Mhíle Stór.” And here she is reciting her own poems at an event at the University of Notre Dame.
