On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife and children, was joining the Catholic Church. The long pilgrimage from Communism to Christ carried Douglas Hyde from complete commitment to Marxism, to a questioning uneasiness about Soviet Russia's glaring contradictions of ideology and action, to a final rejection of the Party. In DEDICATION AND...
On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his lif...
CONTENTS Introduction St. Patrick and Crom Dubh Mary's Well How Covetousness Came into the Church Knock Mulruana The Stone of Truth The Adventures of Leithin The Comparison as to Ages The Death of Bearachan Story of Solomon Christmas Alms The Burial of Jesus Saint Peter Legends of St. Deglan St. Paul's Vision Oscar of the Flail Oisin in Elphin The Priest who went to do Penance The Friars of Urlaur Dialogue between Two Old Women The Minister and the Gossoon The Keening of the Three Marys The Farmer's Son and the Bishop Shaun the Tinker Mary and St. Joseph and The Cherry Tree The Student who...
CONTENTS Introduction St. Patrick and Crom Dubh Mary's Well How Covetousness Came into the Church Knock Mulruana The Stone of Truth The Adventures of ...
