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Fr Joseph Zimmermann SMA – Homily & Video

Fr Joseph Zimmermann SMA is acknowledged as the Founder of the Irish Province. After 28 years in Ireland, he was transferred to Savannah, Georgia,...

Fr Colum makes a welcome return

The SMA Provincial Council has released Ballinlough-born, Fr. Colum O’Shea SMA, for appointment by Bishop John Buckley as Assistant Priest in St Joseph's SMA parish, Wilton....
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Fr Malachy Flanagan SMA

Fr Malachy Flanagan, from Tullyallen parish (Drogheda, Co Louth) is the son of the late Mary (Oliver) and the late John Flanagan. Born in...
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Jean-Marie Coquard – a review

Edmund M. Hogan, Cross and Scalpel: Jean-Marie Coquard among the Egba of Yorubaland (Heinemann Educational Books, Nigeria, 2013) Reviewed by Peter Costello, for the Irish...

Fr John O’Hea Golden Jubilee homily

Fr Fintan Daly preached the following homily at the Mass celebrated at the SMA House of Studies, Bodija, Ibadan, Nigeria on Friday, 4 March...
OConnell Jubilee Birthday Nov12

Fr Mattie O’Connell celebrates 55 years as a priest

On a joyously warm and agreeable tropical Saturday morning, 3rd November 2012, at St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus parish, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria...
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Roll of Honour

PROVINCIAL SUPERIORS of the Irish Province Stephen Kyne (1912-1913) >>> read more Maurice Slattery (1913-1918, 1925-1931) >>> read more. William Butler (1918-1925) Stephen Harrington (1931-1946) Patrick Kelly (1946-1952) John Creaven...

Fr Maurice Slattery (1874 – 1957)

Born on 22 September 1874 at Laccamore, Abbeydorney, Co Kerry, in the diocese of Kerry Died on 11 May 1957, of heart failure, while holidaying in Tralee,...