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Hells Bells!

This column was written for March 2002 and did not appear in The Dubliner … ever! I had initially planned to write this column about that ambitious Cappuchin monk Father Theobald Matthew who turned Judas on his bartender and founded the Pioneers in 1838. I thought the month of St. Paddy’s might serve as a […]