Heather Abrahamson:
BA Mod. (Hons.) Italian and French, TCD. She has many years’ experience in adult education.
Jane Bailey IBVM:
is an accredited instructor with the Irish Tai Chi Chuan Association. She has extensive experience in teaching Tai Chi to individuals and groups of all ages and abilities.
Phil Dunne:
MA, LGSM is an experienced tutor in English literature, who has worked with students of all ages and abilities.
Brian Dooney:
PhD, works with Age and Opportunity, the leading national development organisation improving the quality of life of people aged 50-100+. He develops and delivers programmes on positive ageing, drawing on the arts as a source of inspiration and hope. Previously, he worked as a lecturer in English and Adult Education in All Hallows College/DCU (2004-2016), presenting a range of modules in relation to Literature, Spirituality & the Arts; Creative Writing; Media & Critical Awareness.
Kieran O’Mahony OSA:
is an Augustinian friar and a biblical scholar, with particular interest in the letters of St Paul and the Gospel according to John. He taught for many years in the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy (Dublin). Currently, he is publishing a 9-volume series called “Hearers of the Word” on the readings for Advent, Lent and Eastertide. With Jessie Rogers and Seán Goan he is on the team of the newly formed Tarsus Scripture School. For more information visit www.tarsus.ie.
Sabine Schratz OP:
Dr. theol., MA Medieval and Modern History, is director of Lumen and member of the Dominican Historical Institute, Rome. She has published in the fields of church history, social justice and liturgical praxis and taught in third-level and adult education.
Marie Helène Dolan:
BA, French and English, Brest University. She is an experienced French teacher, including many years in the Alliance Française, Dublin.
Sean Goan:
BA, BD, LSS is a Scripture scholar and retired teacher who has been involved in adult faith development for many years. He has also written commentaries on the Sunday readings and published The Sign: Reading the Gospel of John (2018).
Andrew Pierce:
has a background in historical theology and is an Assistant Professor in the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD. He is involved in a variety of ecumenical projects – both grassroots and academic – and is particularly interested in how ideas about, and experiences of, place impact on religious self-understanding.
Jude Lal Fernando:
is Assistant Professor in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies at the School of Religion and Director of the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, TCD.
Ellen (Rose) Gormley:
Ellen (Rose) Gormley: is an experienced teacher and a trained psychotherapist. She has practised Centering Prayer for many years.
Terry Hennessy:
trained and danced with a number of International Teachers of Sacred Dance. She has a gentle experienced teaching style and brings her own love of the dance to the group.
Eileen White:
Eileen has worked in Education for many years. She has worked in counselling and retreat work. Eileen has been practicing Centering Prayer for a number of years.
Nadia Quick:
is a Royal Academy of Dance Silver Swans licensed teacher and a registered teacher and life member of the Royal Academy of Dance and a Fellow of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Patrick Quinn:
PhD, has taught in third-level and adult education for more than 30 years with extensive publications in philosophy and education and a series of programmes on RTÉ radio and television.
John Scally:
PhD, lectures in Theology in TCD and was a secondary school teacher for 20 years. He is the author of over 40 books. His most recent book is ‘Inspiration for all Seasons: Celtic Wisdom for Today’.
Ruth Lockhart:
MA in Art History, BA in Fine Art and Translation, native German speaker, has taught in third-level and adult education for over 25 years. She also works as a painter in her own studio.
John O’Riordan
BA (UCD) in Art History, English and History, MA in Art History (UCD). He has many years experience of teaching Art History in third level and adult education.
Aidan Mathews:
Married with two daughters and three granddaughters, Aidan’s old enough to have served the Latin Mass, but naive enough not to mind the tumult in today’s Church. As a child of the second Vatican council, he and his ageing cohort have been through Christian forms of Captivity and Exodus – and sometimes both at the same time. Schooled for ten years by the Jesuits, and teaching with them for a time, Aidan finished up at Stanford, where he studied the scriptures under René Girard. He worked for forty years as a Religion producer in RTE, and his writings mix fiction (stories, plays, philosophy) and non-fiction (poetry).
Theo Riches
Theo Riches: Ph.D., is a medieval historian and has studied and taught at several institutions in the UK and Germany, including Manchester, London, Hamburg and Münster. His primary interest is the development of religion and politics in the tenth through twelfth centuries.
Amanda Dillon
Amanda Dillon is a researcher at Dublin City University working on a major project looking at the spiritual practice of journaling with sacred texts. As a biblical scholar she is interested in how the Bible is received and interpreted by contemporary readers and artists and how it is portrayed in visual art and design. Female characters in the Bible and their afterlives are another dimension of her research. Amanda has published on the Bible in 21st century lectionaries; the Bible and Graphic Design, the Bible in the art of Marc Chagall; Manga Bibles; spirituality and art, and religion in Street Art.
Isabelle Smyth:
As a Medical Missionary of Mary, Isabelle worked as Hospital Administrator in Tanzania, later in the Archdiocese of São Paulo, serving on the Commission for Human Rights, living and ministering in local ecclesial communities. Her academic qualifications include MA in Political Philosophy, Maynooth, L.Ph from Pontifical University and a Diploma in Sociology and Social Research at UCD.
Miriam Moffit:
Miriam Moffitt PhD has many years’ experience of teaching church history modules in various 3rd level colleges including St Patrick’s College Maynooth, and the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dublin.
Victoria Krivoshchekova:
BA in History, MA in Medieval Studies. Victoria is a PhD student in the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. Her research interests include philosophy of language and philosophy of mind in early medieval Ireland.