Taking a Stand: Memoir of an Irish Priest Book

Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Foreword 9 Preface 13 Introduction 15
1 The Early Years 22
2 Growing up in the 1950s 40
3 A Time of Discovery - Lady Chatterley and the IRA 52
4 Maynooth - The North Erupts 72
5 Ordination and Baptism of Fire 94
6 Bloody Sunday - Solidarity with the People 113
7 Remembering my Cousin, Michael Leonard 120
8 Frank, Charlie and Fr. Tom 128
9 Confronting Church and State 135
10 Talking to Loyalists 148
11 Mother's Death and a Letter from the Bishop 153
12 Talking to the IRA and the Free Presbyterians 160
13 The Hunger Strikes 165
14 After the Hunger-Strike 181
15 Back Home in Ireland 191
16 Assassinations, Intimidation and the Enniskillen Bomb 216
17 People Power - Opening Roads, Boycotting Banks and Opposing Censorship 232
18 The Darkest Hour 239
19 A Ray of Hope 245
20 Remembering Rosemary Nelson 253
21 The Dawn 260
22 Still Priesting 266 Epilogue 271 Index 276