Bishop Casey’s son: I fled in tears at our first meeting; Derry building draped in giant quilt for Craft Month – MU role; Visit to Irish Forces; Archdeacon retires; Music events; Ian Paisley’s successor
Bishop Casey’s son: I fled in tears at our first meeting
Irish Examiner – When Eamon Casey’s son first met his father, the then Catholic bishop of Galway so upset the youngster that he fled from him in tears.
Peter Murphy, 38, first met Casey in the early 1990s in a law office after his mother, Annie Murphy, threatened to reveal the relationship unless the bishop acknowledged his son.
“My memory of the event is me trying to engage him and he having no interest in engaging with me,” Peter tells reporter Donal MacIntyre in a first part of a television documentary on Irish newspapers to be aired next week on TV3.
“I just freaked out. I ran out of the room and came down in the elevator and I was a blubbering mess,” he tells MacIntyre in Print and Be Damned, a new series revealing the hidden history of Irish newspapers.
MacIntyre — who cut his journalistic teeth in The Irish Press and The Sunday Tribune — reveals the great scoops that have shaped Irish newspapers.
The biggest scoop of the ’90s was when The Irish Times revealed Bishop Casey had fathered a child. Donal discovers how the story was delivered amid great risk to the paper. He also speaks to Peter, now living in Boston.
Peter, who has a physical resemblance to Casey, recalls the heartbreak he felt when he realised that his father did not want anything to do with him.
“I was an example of an end to all his hard work,” he says. He also recalls his anger at the interview his mother gave in 1993 to Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show. Byrne appeared dismissive of her and told Annie: “If your son is half as good a man as his father was, he won’t be doing too badly.”
More at –
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/caseys-son-i-fled-in-tears-at-our-first-meeting-238766.html
Derry building draped in giant quilt for Craft Month – MU role
New Letter – A massive multicoloured quilt has been draped over the top of the Bedlam building on Pump Street, Londonderry – with the help of a forklift tuck – to mark the launch of August Craft Month, which will see a variety of exhibitions and craft workshops take place in the City of Culture and across the province.
The City of Culture Quilt, approximately 50ft by 20ft in size, was made over seven months by Londonderry children’s knitwear designer and crochet tutor Aine Clarke with the help of hundreds of local volunteers who helped knit individual squares, many of them with the names of relatives or important dates sewn on the back to create a patchwork ‘of memories’.
Aine, who visited schools, community groups and old people’s homes to supervise the knitting and crocheting sessions, also holding workshops in her Lononderry knitwear shop, said the beauty of the work was that it grew out of collaboration.
“The quilt looks really well and symbolises how people have come together to support the City of Culture,” said Aine. “A lot of effort has been put into each individual piece, which is personal to the maker.
“People put in dates special to them and their family, including the birth or death of a loved one. The detail is really beautiful.
“The Mothers’ Union produced a wonderful piece commemorating their centenary and Lisnagelvin Primary School made a big effort – the whole school was involved and they made a piece that is about a quarter of the whole quilt. It is great because a lot of children have kept it up so it has helped to revive crocheting and knitting in the city.
“It also brought back a lot of memories for older people in the homes I visited. They hadn’t knitted or crocheted for many years and it was lovely to sit down and hear their stories about their families and the ‘olden days’,” she added. More at –
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/building-draped-in-giant-quilt-for-craft-month-1-5347749
Visit to Irish Forces
The Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe will be in Lebanon this week visiting members of the Irish Defence Forces who left Sarsfield Barracks Limerick earlier this year to commence a tour of duty as part of the UN Peacekeeping Force the 108th IRISHFINN Battalion.
During his pastoral visit, Bishop Williams will lay a wreath at the monument in Tibnine, erected to commemorate Irish Peacekeepers who lost their lives while serving as peacekeepers in the Lebanon. He will be accompanied by Mgr Eoin Tynne HCF, head chaplain to the Irish will host the visit.
Archdeacon retires
The diocese of Derry and Raphoe marked the retirement of Archdeacon Scott Harte with a special lunch in the Diocesan Office in Londonderry. The Archdeacon of Raphoe retires on 6 August 2013.
Archdeacon Harte retires from fulltime ministry and has served as Archdeacon of Raphoe for thirty years. Until his retirement he was Rector of Dunfanaghey, Raymunterdoney and Tullaghobegley on the beautiful coast of north Donegal.
Scott Harte spent his early life in Belfast. He was ordained in 1971 and served curacies in Bangor Abbey and Ballynafeigh. His move to Raphoe diocese came in 1976 when he was appointed as rector of Ardara, Glencolumbcille and Killybegs. In 1998 he took up his current post in Dunfanaghey.
The event, on 12 June, to mark the Archdeacon’s retirement took place immediately after the monthly meeting of the Diocesan Council and was attended by Council members and key office holders in the diocese. A number of speeches were made expressing appreciation for the Archdeacon’s contribution to the life of the diocese. Mr Geoffrey Kelly (Diocesan Secretary) and Dean William Morton (St Columb’s Cathedral) expressed their thanks for the ease with which they worked with the Archdeacon and for his helpfulness.
Bishop Ken Good talked of the important contribution that Scott Harte made to the life of Derry and Raphoe over many years. In thanking him for his faithfulness he wished him a long and happy retirement as he begins this new stage in his life. The Bishop said “Archdeacon Harte brought great warmth, humanity and compassion to his ministry in our diocese. This, along with a high level of practical wisdom and insight, will be greatly missed. I speak on behalf of myself and the diocese in offering our warmest good wishes for his retirement”.
Archdeacon Harte and his late wife Isobel have a daughter, Lauren who is a well–known local journalist in Co Donegal.
Music events
The lunchtime organ recital in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday will be given by Peter Barley while in St Peter’s church, Portlaoise, there will be a lunchtime organ recital by Andrew Burrows from Kilkenny. On Thursday evening Nadine Fiorentini will give a piano recital as part of the St Barrahane’s Festival of Music in Castletownshend and on Friday the Respicio Baroque Ensemble will pay at lunchtime in Sandford parish church.
Ian Paisley’s successor
Rev Dr Ian Brown installed as minister of Martyrs Memorial
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/rev-dr-ian-brown-installed-as-minister-of-martyrs-memorial-1-5350477