Michael Warren Davis
In 1577, St. John of the Cross was taken prisoner by a group of
Carmelites from Toledo who were opposed to the reforms of the Order he
was undertaking with St. Teresa of Ávila. For eight or nine months, he
was held in a six-by-ten-foot cell. The ceiling was so low that John
(not a […]
Eoin Cronin
In the eighteenth-century comic poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (“The Midnight
Court”), the narrator expresses frustration at her lack of marriage
prospects, berating the young men of her day for their scheming, selfish
ways. In spite of an abundance of attractive young women eager to marry
and start families, these lazy men would rather chase […]
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