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Tyrone setting for Prodigal Son film Speak of the Devil
Shows like Line of Duty and Game of Thrones aren t the only focus for Northern Ireland s burgeoning film and television industry. Religious productions are also finding ideal locations, including the Tyrone countryside 17 June, 2021 01:00 Speak of the Devil was filmed at the site of the former Ulster History Park at Glenpark Estate, outside Omagh
A slice of the Tyrone countryside has been transformed into a Viking settlement for an imaginative docudrama film retelling of the Bible story of the Prodigal Son.
Global Catholic TV network EWTN is behind the production, called
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When I think of Father Willie Doyle, a quote comes to mind, “Older men declare war. But it is the youth who must fight and die.” Willie Doyle was both an older man and joined the company of younger men on the front to die.
In 1914, at the start of the apocalyptic WWI, like many men in Europe, Willie Doyle, although a Jesuit priest, immediately volunteered. However, being a priest, he was different from most. Willie had just turned 41 years old and left a successful professional routine. Due to his education and profession, he was given an officer rank and appeared to be headed for a war away from the front.
Some years back, while doing research in a monastery library, I came across a passing reference to a priest and soldier. It intrigued me. His biography, published in 1920, was cited; I made a note, and left it at that, or so I thought. Because, unexpectedly, months later, I found the biography, and late one night sat down to read. Like so many caught up in the conflict that came to be known as the Great War, Father Willie Doyle was buried where he fell, without marker or tombstone, just another casualty among millions. That should have been the end of matters; however, it proved not to be the case.
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FATHER Anthony Davies was ordained to the priesthood in May 1959 and six months later won a Down senior football championship medal.
The irony was that this son of Armagh should have been overseas instead of beginning more than 60 years of parish devotion in the neighbouring diocese of Dromore.
Born into a family of 12 children in Tandragee in 1932, the young Anthony attended the local St James Primary School and progressed to St Patrick’s, Armagh.
Following his studies in the cathedral city he left the archdiocese for St Peter’s College, Wexford – and never really returned.
Earmarked for missionary work in Australia, he was refused a visa to travel on health grounds as he had suffered from TB during his youth.