Paul Murray (poet)

Irish Dominican priest, poet and academic

Paul Brendan Murray, O.P.^[1](born 26 November 1947) is an Irish Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, poet, writer, and professor.

Murray was born at Newcastle, County Down, in Northern Ireland. In 1966 he joined the Irish Dominican Province, and was ordained a priest in 1973. Since 1994 he has lived in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum.^[2][3][4][5] He holds a doctorate in English Literature from University College Dublin. In 2012 Paul Murray was conferred with honorary degree of Master of Sacred Theology at a ceremony in St Mary's Priory, Tallaght, Dublin.^[6]

Bibliography

Prose

• The Mysticism Debate (1977)
• T.S. Eliot and Mysticism: The Secret History of the Four Quartets (1991)
• A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment (2002)^[7]
• Preachers at Prayer (2003)^[8]
• The New Wine of Dominican Spirituality: A Drink Called Happiness (2003)^[9]
• "I Loved Jesus in the Night": Teresa of Calcutta, A Secret Revealed (2008)^[10][11]
• Door into the Sacred: A Meditation on the Hail Mary (2010)^[12]
• Praying with Confidence: Aquinas on the Lord's Prayer (2010)^[13]
• In the Grip of Light: The Dark and Bright Journey of Christian Contemplation (2012)^[14]
• Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry (2013)^[15]
• Scars: Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction (2014)^[16]
• God's Spies: Michelangelo, Shakespeare and Other Poets of Vision (2019)^[17]
• Saint Catherine of Siena: Mystic of Fire, Preacher of Freedom (2020)^[18]
• Preachers at Prayer: Soundings in the Dominican Spiritual Tradition (2024)^[19]

Poetry

• Ritual Poems (1971)
• Rites and Meditations (1982)
• The Absent Fountain (1992)
• These Black Stars (2003)
• Stones and Stars (2013)^[20][21]
• Light at the Torn Horizon (2022)^[22]
• Moling in Meditation: A Psalter for an Early Irish Monk (2023)^[23]

Books for children

• The Mother of Jesus is Wonderfully Real (2021)^[24]

See also

• Faber Book of Irish Verse - an anthology of Irish poetry which includes a poem by Murray
• T. S. Eliot bibliography - see section titled Works on T.S Eliot
• List of writers of Northern Ireland

References

1. "Master of Theology - Fr Paul Murray, o.p." www.dominicanfriars.ie. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
2. "Paul Murray OP: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)".
3. "Fr. Paul Murray". Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
4. "Paul Murray". www.dedaluspress.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
5. "Murray, Paul". Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
6. "Murray, O.P., Paul; Facoltà di Teologia".
7. "A Journey with Jonah". Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
8. "Preachers at Prayer - Spirituality". Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
9. "The New Wine of Dominican Spirituality".
10. "Paraclete Press | Christian Books, Music, and DVDS". Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
11. "I Loved Jesus in the Night".
12. "Door into the Sacred".
13. "Praying with Confidence".
14. "In the Grip of Light".
15. "Aquinas at Prayer".
16. "Scars".
17. "God's Spies: Michelangelo, Shakespeare and Other Poets of Vision".
18. "Saint Catherine of Siena: Mystic of Fire, Preacher of Freedom".
19. Murray, Paul. "Preachers at Prayer: Soundings in the Dominican Spiritual Tradition". Amazon.com.
20. "Stones and Stars". Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
21. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
22. "Light at the Torn Horizon".
23. "Moling in Meditation: A Psalter for an Early Irish Monk".
24. "The Mother of Jesus is Wonderfully real".

• Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt:The Cold Heaven, p. 187, ed. John F. Deane, Wolfhound Press, 1990.