It is now commonplace in Ireland to present the Catholic Church in the most negative terms. Sometimes this is deserved, but on its own it leads to an unbalanced view of the Church in Ireland and in the world more generally. In practice, very few people are well informed about the history of Irish Catholicism. In an important new essay for the Dublin Review of Books, the Jesuit historian, Fr Fergus O’Donoghue, offers a necessary corrective to the current, caricatured understanding of the Church in this country.

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Lord Jesus Christ, pierce my soul with your love so that I may always long for you alone, who are the bread of angels and the fulfilment of the souls deepest desires. May my heart always hunger for you, so that my soul may be filled with the sweetness of your presence.

~ St Bonaventure