John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue (1 January 1956 – 3 January 2008) was a poet and Hegelian philosopher from County Clare, Ireland, where his father was a stonemason. [cite news |title=John O'Donohue: Irish priest turned poet whose writing merged Celtic spirit and a love of the natural world| url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3321060.ece|date=2008-02-06|work=The Times Online | accessdate=2008-02-08] He is most well known for his popularization of Celtic spirituality . [ cite web|url=http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/john_odonahue/index.shtml |title=The Inner Landscape of Beauty |accessdate=2008-03-03 |last=O'Donahue |first=John |coauthors=Krista Tippett |date=2008-02-28 |work="Speaking of Faith" |publisher=National Public Radio ]

O'Donohue received a PhD in philosophical theology from Tübingen University in 1990. He was ordained as Catholic priest, but left the priesthood in the 1990s.

Works

*"Eternal Echoes" (1998)
*"Conamara Blues" (2000)
*"Divine Beauty" (2003)
*"To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings" Doubleday, 2008. isbn 9780385522274
*"Anam Cara", (Gaelic for "Soul Friend"; 1997)

External links

* [http://www.jodonohue.com/ John O'Donohue] Official Website.
* [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/john_odonahue/index.shtml "The Inner Landscape of Beauty"] from NPR, the last interview with O'Donohue before his death.
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/religion Obituary] by Martin Wroe, from The Guardian, Tuesday April 15 2008.

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