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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A migrant shipwreck and the cruelty of indifference

2 weeks ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Fiona Murphy

THE CONVERSATION Migrants on a small boat trying to cross the English Channel.
Arquidiocese de Nova York convida paroquianos a identificar futuros padres

3 weeks ago | acidigital.com | Fiona Murphy

4 de jun de 2025 às 16:22 Na arquidiocese de Nova York, EUA, onde as ordenações sacerdotais diminuíram drasticamente nas últimas décadas, uma nova iniciativa busca reacender vocações. Lançada nos últimos meses, Called By Name (Chamados pelo Nome) é a mais recente tentativa da arquidiocese de despertar o interesse pelo sacerdócio. “Só dois homens se candidataram ao seminário no ano passado para serem padres diocesanos.
Facing shortage, New York Archdiocese taps parishioners to spot future priests

3 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | Fiona Murphy |Carl Olson

This year’s class of ordinandi at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers. Bishop Joseph Massa is seated in the center. / Credit: Theo Deluhery, Diocese of CamdenNew York City, N.Y., Jun 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). In the Archdiocese of New York, where ordinations to the priesthood have sharply declined in recent decades, a new initiative is seeking to rekindle vocations. Launched this spring, “Called By Name” is the archdiocese’s latest attempt to spark interest in the priesthood.
Facing shortage, New York Archdiocese taps parishioners to spot future priests

3 weeks ago | catholicnewsagency.com | Fiona Murphy

New York City, N.Y., Jun 4, 2025 / 06:00 am In the Archdiocese of New York, where ordinations to the priesthood have sharply declined in recent decades, a new initiative is seeking to rekindle vocations. Launched this spring, “Called By Name” is the archdiocese’s latest attempt to spark interest in the priesthood. “Only two men applied to seminary last year to be diocesan priests,” Father George Sears, director of vocations for the archdiocese, told CNA.
International Booker prize 2025: six experts review the shortlisted novels, including winner Heart Lamp

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Helen Vassallo |David Hering |Fiona Murphy |Leigh Wilson |Rachel Sykes |Sarah BRown | +1 more

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the 2025 International Booker prize. Here, our literature experts review the book and the other five novels that were shortlisted for the prize. Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp shines a light on the lives of Muslim women in rural India.
Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference

1 month ago | tolerance.ca | Fiona Murphy |Dublin City

By Fiona Murphy, Assistant Professor in Refugee and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University There’s a particular kind of story that’s rarely executed well – one without heroes, without lessons, without even the cold comfort of a villain you can confidently point at and say: there, that’s the evil.
Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Fiona Murphy |Dublin City

There’s a particular kind of story that’s rarely executed well – one without heroes, without lessons, without even the cold comfort of a villain you can confidently point at and say: there, that’s the evil. Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat – a slim, bruising novel translated with quiet precision by Helen Stevenson – is that kind of story.
Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology

1 month 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 month 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

1 month 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.

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