Irish Voices on Faith, Spirituality and Art

There is a note on my desk that reads Keep the Faith. Underneath the words are a love heart that I have coloured in with red marker on what must have been a slow writing day.

I was born in Belfast in 1981, the eldest child of what was then called a “mixed marriage” – one parent Protestant, one Catholic.  My father had been a Church of Ireland choirboy; my mother educated by nuns who encouraged them to walk around the playground with their arm outstretched so their guardian angel could hold their hand. But by the time they met, in their early twenties in my mother’s home city of Bristol, they had each moved away from the str