Online videos – Dominican Friars Ireland

Online Video Review: Reason for the Season – the Easter Triduum

Archivist Author — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:00:07 +0000

A well-known chocolate company is currently running an advertising campaign for bunny-shaped treats with the tagline, ‘Why wait until Easter?’ I imagine the concept of ‘Lent’ isn’t a popular one among chocolate manufacturers, but it says a lot that they could ask this rhetorical question as if there were no obvious answer. Just as Christmas […]

Online Video Review: Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire

Archivist Author — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:40:17 +0000

Laetare Sunday is now behind us and we are in final stretch towards Holy Week. I don’t know about you, but I always find the emotion of Holy Week quite hard to take. Perhaps it has a greater intensity in a religious community, when the whole community experiences disorientation together: familiar timetables are altered, familiar […]

Online Video Review: Dear Future Mum

Archivist Author — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:29:32 +0000

In ancient Sparta, being born did not necessarily mean that a child would be cherished. The Spartan elders could decide, if they thought the child was weak or deformed in any way, to have the child exposed to the elements, cut off from the support of the community and left to die. This practice of […]

Online Video Review: #IrelandInspires

Archivist Author — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:47:28 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmIZEl1nSo The video above, produced by Fáilte Ireland (the Irish tourist board) has been doing the rounds recently. It was produced in honour of St Patrick’s Day, and its central message is, ‘Ireland Inspires’. It celebrates the achievements of this little island in a way that blends the old (literature, landscape) and the new (science and […]