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I always have a happy feeling when I come into Wicklow Town, maybe because its setting is so beautiful with the sea the hills and the Murrough. I remember being happy here because Wicklow was a good place to live and Holy Rosary a happy school. Close your eyes for a moment and... Read More

Welcome to the 4 Corners Festival                                                      31 January – 9 February 2020. The 4 Corners Festival seeks... Read More

Celebrating 150 Years of Dominican presence in Wicklow “Celebrating the past…inspiring the future”.  The Eucharist to celebrate the 150 years of Dominican presence in Wicklow will be streamed live  through the Parish webcam on the parish website which... Read More

The 2020 theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has been selected. “They Showed Us Unusual Kindness” (cf. Acts 28:2). This year the theme finds its origins in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 27:18 – 28:10).  The Inaugural Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian... Read More

Pope Francis has designated the third Sunday of the Year (26/1/’20) as Sunday of the Word of God.  By a recent promulgation, called “Aperuit Illis” (“He opened to them [the Scriptures]”), Pope Francis has designated the third Sunday of the Year as Sunday of the Word of... Read More

If it is true that since the late 19th century the Baltic States have represented the outpost of freedom on the frontier between East and West and that in 1990 they were the first states to proclaim their independence from the USSR, there could have hardly been a better place for... Read More

Click below to access Sr. Máire Kealy’s OP,  (known as Sr. Cynthia),  story of Dominican Education in Ballyfermot. Sr. Máire was actively involved in teaching and administration in both primary and secondary schools on the Dominican Campus, Ballyfermot, Dublin.... Read More

I would like to congratulate Sr Máire on her wonderful documentation of the social history of Ballyfermot and the impact that Dominican Education had on the lives of the young women with the provision of educational facilities.  She certainly captures life in the early 1950s... Read More

Reflection for the  Feast of the Guardian Angels, 2 October 2019 at  Evening Prayer The Catholic Chaplaincy in Queens University Belfast  “She was my angel in Kerdiffstown during my novitiate” – my older Dominican Sisters often describe another sister with this... Read More

Explore the heritage and magnificent artwork of our Sister M. Concepta Lynch OP at the Dominican Oratory of the Sacred Heart, Library Road, Dún Laoghaire. The Oratory was built during 1919  to mark the end of WWI and to commemorate the many local Irishmen who had fought and... Read More