Fiona Murphy

Editorial and Marketing Assistant at Books Ireland

Freelance Writer and Book Reviewer at Freelance

Editorial and marketing assistant at the Wordwell Group and @booksirelandmag Book Reviews 📚 @ReviewIndo, @irishexaminer and fiction ✒ in @bansheelit

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Articles

How design justice could transform Dublin

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiona Murphy

Opinion: Design Justice is a fundamentally different way of understanding who and what a city is forDublin is a city in the midst of a crisis. Housing has become a luxury rather than a right, pushing thousands into precarious living situations and making homelessness a stark reality for many. In many ways, this crisis results from policies treating land primarily as an asset for speculation rather than as a home.
'God-lover Kyle' performs spirituality through posting memes on Instagram

3 weeks ago | religionnews.com | Fiona Murphy

(RNS) — A meme, as Kyle Hide explains it, is like a gene for culture. A concept first coined by biologist Richard Dawkins, it’s a unit of meaning that evolves and spreads through imitation. “ A meme functions similarly to a virus,” said Hide, the 34-year-old administrator of the popular Instagram account I Need God in Every Moment of My Life, a self-described culturally non-practicing Catholic and lifelong internet obsessive. “That’s why we might call something online viral.
It's not gratitude that's needed, it's an honest conversation about motherhood

3 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Fiona Murphy

MOTHER’S DAY ARRIVES with its usual trappings: pink-hued advertisements, pre-written messages of gratitude, flowers ordered in haste. It is a day meant to honour, but it often flattens, reducing something vast and intricate into a singular, sentimental note. Motherhood, in all its forms, refuses such easy containment. It is a shape-shifter — expanding, contracting, dissolving, resurfacing.
Raising concerns: SEC clears investor nuns to file Indigenous rights resolution against Citigroup

1 month ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Fiona Murphy |David Adams

Sister Susan Francois and other faith-based investors won an SEC case, pushing banks to confront their role in fossil fuel financing.
SEC clears investor nuns to file Indigenous rights resolution against Citigroup

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Fiona Murphy

Pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy, June 29, 2018. (AP/Jim Mone) Sr. Susan Francois, a 52-year-old Catholic nun and longtime financial investment activist, has spent the past four years filing shareholder resolutions against Citigroup, urging the parent company of one of the world’s largest investment banks to rethink its financial ties to fossil fuel projects that impact Indigenous communities.
SEC clears investor nuns to file Indigenous rights resolution against Citigroup

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Fiona Murphy

(RNS) — Sister Susan Francois, a 52-year-old Catholic nun and longtime financial investment activist, has spent the past four years filing shareholder resolutions against Citigroup, urging the parent company of one of the world’s largest investment banks to rethink its financial ties to fossil fuel projects that impact Indigenous communities. Her work has often been dismissed by the lending giant.
St Patrick: A migrant, a myth and a global brand?

1 month ago | thejournal.ie | Fiona Murphy |Stephen McDermott

THE TROUBLE WITH saints is that they never stay where you put them. You carve their statues, paint their faces into stained glass, pin their names to cathedrals and street signs, but still, they wander. They slip out of history’s grasp and into the realm of folklore, commerce and kitsch. And nowhere is this truer than with St Patrick — a man who, by all accounts, wanted nothing more than to escape Ireland, only to become its most enduring claim to fame.
New Age music is experiencing a revival among Gen Z

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Fiona Murphy

(RNS) — Imagine you are walking into a spa, and you are likely to hear an immersive soundscape of soft harmonies, resonant tones and gentle textures submerging your senses. You are experiencing New Age music, a genre designed to promote relaxation, mindfulness and internal healing. Nonmelodic compositions featuring soft piano notes, delicate harp scales, the shimmering chimes of crystal bowls and ambient synthesizers characterize the genre.
Empathy and dialogue: embracing the art of creative review

2 months ago | allegralaboratory.net | Ian M. Cook |Fiona Murphy |Çiçek İlengiz |Priyanka Borpujari

Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart of human experience in ways that traditional academic texts rarely do. It moves you, challenges you, perhaps unsettles you. But what happens next? Do you simply appreciate the work and walk away, or is there something deeper at stake in this encounter?
"Going after the lost sheep": He's a young millennial Catholic priest; of course he's a social media influencer

2 months ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Fiona Murphy |David Adams

For Fr David Michael Moses, whose humorous and heartfelt videos have tens of millions of views, social media isn’t a tool – it’s a mission field. FIONA MURPHY, of Religion News Service, reports…United StatesRNSClad in a black clerical shirt and collar, Fr David Michael Moses steps out of a black Jeep, a small smile plays on his lips and his bright green eyes catch the camera.