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

Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology

3 days ago | allegralaboratory.net | Priyanka Borpujari |Ian M. Cook |Çiçek İlengiz |Fiona Murphy

“I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.”Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much dust in his cuffs, broke into a smile that marked him a persistent optimist. Still, his eyes hung a beat too long on the groaning pickup piled with plastic drums of contraband diesel, sacks of powdered milk and rice rebagged for trade, and his two hired hands—already called “the boys” without irony—set to guide us through mule tracks and mining trails to the informal encampment beyond the border crossing.
As cardinals vote, purveyors of Catholic products prep for new pontiff

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Fiona Murphy

(RNS) — Near the register at the Advent Shop, a 20-year-old Catholic religious goods store on Long Island, New York, a wooden table has been carefully arranged into a kind of altar. Stacked with book versions of Pope Francis’ encyclicals, images of the late pontiff, rosaries featuring his papal cross and small silver rosary rings packed neatly beside his smiling face, customers gaze at and fiddle with the items as they wait to check out.
May Day rituals for a world on fire

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Fiona Murphy

ON MAY DAY morning, before the sun rose, women used to wash their faces in the dew. Not for vanity, but for clarity and good luck. For a kind of brightness that wasn’t about youth, but about seeing. You’d walk barefoot through the grass — wet, wild, alive — and you’d know, if only briefly, what it felt like to belong to the earth instead of owning it. People tied red ribbons and flowers around cattle for protection.
Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival show creativity in New York

3 weeks ago | religionnews.com | Fiona Murphy

NEW YORK (RNS) — On Easter Sunday (April 20), Fifth Avenue erupted once again in a kaleidoscope of color, costumes and creativity as thousands gathered for the Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival. The post-Mass procession of chicly dressed churchgoers that began in the 1870s has since evolved into a pluralistic and theatrical celebration. Today, it is less about organized religion and more about individual expression.
How design justice could transform Dublin

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.