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Fr. Conor McDonough is a Dominican priest at Saint Saviour’s in Dublin, originally from County Galway.
Amongst other things, he has become something of a YouTuber of late (With the Success of Treasure Ireland) and is a serious scholar, with degrees from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, Maynooth University in Ireland, and Cambridge University in England. His academic work covers everything from philosophy and Latin to the Natural Sciences and Theology.

You can learn more about Fr. Conor and follow his work here:




Irish Dominicans - YouTube





Fr Conor McDonough, Author at The Irish Catholic




Conor McDonough - Academia.edu

Joe Mahon, from Derry, is presenter and producer of Mahon's Way on UTV. He previously hosted Lesser Spotted Ulster and Lesser Spotted Journeys. He is married to Phil. They have five children: Patrick, Kevin, Brendan, Sarah and Emma. Patrick works as a researcher and assistant producer on their UTV programmes.  

Joe owns a production company, Westway Film Productions, which he started in 1996 in Derry.  He got his start as a teacher working in Derry, teaching history and English, when he was approached by BBC Radio Foyle to speak for them, and it has spiralled from there.

If you'd like to follow Mahon's Way or what is happening at Benburb Priory, please see the links below:

Mahons Way | UTV programmes (itv.com)



Retreat and Conference Centre - Benburb Priory

Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.

Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered.

Dr Crawford Gribben is an historian of early modern religion, and the author of books including most recently The rise and fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021), which has been widely reviewed in newspapers and other media, including on several programmes on Radio Ulster and Radio 4. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2004), and held visiting positions at the University of Lausanne and Westminster Theological Seminary, and posts in early modern literature and history in the University of Manchester (2004-2007) and Trinity College Dublin (2000-2004, 2007-2012), where I was elected a Fellow (2011). 

Crawford took up his current position at Queen's (2013), and has acted as head of the School of History and Anthropology (2015-16) and as Queen's director of the AHRC Northern Bridge PhD programme (2017-2020). During 2021-22, he will serve as visiting professor at Sciences Po, Lille.

Sr. Joyce Rupp is well known for her work as a writer, international retreat leader, and conference speaker. She is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Praying Our Goodbyes, Open the Door, and Fragments of Your Ancient Name. Fly While You Still Have Wings is among her publications earning an award in the spirituality books category from the Catholic Press Association.  Rupp has led retreats throughout North America, as well as in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Joyce has a B.A. in English, a M.R.E. in Religious Education, and a M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology. She is a member of the Servites (Servants of Mary) community and was a volunteer for Hospice for fifteen years. She currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa.  “Joyce Rupp is one of the best Christian spiritual guides writing today.”  —Rev. James Martin

Dr Christopher Kaczor is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in the USA. He has written more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and his fifteen books include The Gospel of Happiness, The Seven Big Myths about Marriage, and his marvellous most recent one, which is a Catholic critique of Jordan Peterson. He lives with his wife and seven children in Los Angeles.