Jean Sulivan: the Priesthood of the Pen : Eamon Maher on the Influential French Writer and Priest, whose Memoir he Translated
Document Type
Article
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
6.3 PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS and RELIGION, Theology, Specific languages
Abstract
Towards the end of a journey from the south west of France up to Cherbourg after a family holiday some years ago, I spotted a signpost for Montauban-de-Bretagne. As we had some time before boarding the ferry, I turned off the motorway and made my way to the cemetery of this pretty hamlet.
My purpose was to seek out the grave of a priest-writer, Jean Sulivan, whose work had been recommended to me in 1991 (30 years ago!) by my prospective PhD supervisor, Patrick Gormally. That suggestion sparked a life-long fascination with a writer who changed my way of looking at the world. It came as a shock recently to discover that February 16th marked the 41st anniversary of Sulivan’s death.
Recommended Citation
Maher, E. (2021) Jean Sulivan: the Priesthood of the Pen : Eamon Maher on the Influential French Writer and Priest, whose Memoir he Translated, The Irish Times (on line) 17th February 2021.
Publication Details
Archived with kind permission from The Irish Times, February, 17th 2021.