The Sisters deserve "to be honored as a model of community service, morality, compassion and nonviolent activism," says a reader. Others find their dress needlessly offensive.
Rory O'Neill, famous for his drag queen persona Panti Bliss, boarded at Gormanston College in Meath during the 1980s. The all-boys school was founded by the Franciscan order.
The hymn is sung in Barra as part of Christmas Eve Mass Folklorist Frances Wilkins on the beauty of a Gaelic Christmas hymn and the tales of emigration which lie behind it…. Emigration, whether forced