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New Books Launched
From the Niger to the Sahara: The Story of the Archdiocese of Kadunaby Fr Edward O’Connor SMA was launched in Kaduna (Nigeria) on Thursday10 December 2009. Details here.
Owen Maginn: A Missionary’s Storyby Fr Michael O’Shea SMA was launched in Castlewellan, Co Down on Thursday 20 August 2009. Details here

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To Prepare His Ways

To Prepare His Ways. Patrick J Harrington SMA. (Cork: SMA Publications, 2021). Pp. 416. Entering St. Patrick’s building in Maynooth and turning right towards the...

An illuminating and binding light

The Gospel of Saint John, the ‘spiritual Gospel’, can sometimes confound the reader with its multiplicity and interweaving of themes. A new book uses...

SMA Cookies Policy 2020

Introduction Cookies are small files placed on your computer’s hard drive, or in your browser memory, when you visit the website of the Irish Province...

The beauty of Dromantine in pictures

The SMA is blessed with a wonderful Retreat & Conference Centre where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea. Situated about 5...
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We will remember them launched

Gone but not forgotten We will remember them is the title of a book written by SMA Fr Peter McCawille. It is a timely memoir...
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Berengario Cermenati

This book charts the careers of three significant figures in the history of the Ebira (a small ethnic  group in Nigeria’s  Middle belt): an...
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Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross Fr Kevin O'Gorman SMA is a native of Tipperary Town. He joined the SMA in 1976 and was ordained a...

Saving Sport

SAVING SPORT Fr Kevin O'Gorman SMA Sport has a huge following in society. Events on and off the field generate intense emotional excitement for fans....
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Launch of the History of Kaduna

  Kaduna Archdiocese celebrates 50 years and launches history The 50th anniversary of the erection of the Archdiocese of Kaduna was celebrated on...

Parish Publications

Blackrock Road Newsletter - 10th January 2010 Blackrock Road Newsletter - 13th December 2009  

The SMA Logo

An international competition was held to produce a Logo for SMA that would express our life and work. The SMA Plenary Council meeting in...

Books

SMA missionaries have published many books over the years.  Following is a partial list of books written and/or published by SMA members. Fr...

African Missionary Newsletter

The first issue of the African Missionary magazine appeared in January 1914. Its first editor was Fr Leo Hale Taylor SMA, later Archbishop of...

Kevin Carroll Collection

Father Kevin Carroll, anthropologist, linguist, ornithologist and photographer, was a member of the Society of African Missions. Born in Liverpool in 1920, he died...

Biography of Bishop Kelly

BISHOP KELLY OF WESTERN NIGERIAby Michael O'Shea SMA LAUNCH OF BIOGRAPHY A Co Galway-born bishop, who spent 70 years as a priest of the...