Father Jim Bradley is a native of Navan, County Meath, and was educated at St. Joseph’s Convent of Mercy, Navan, Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick; Breakspeare College, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire; Christleton Hall; Chester; and University College Swansea. As a writer and commentator, he has worked with BBC Wales and the Catholic Universe, Fleet Street, London, and for several years was a regular and highly entertaining columnist with one of Ireland’s Sunday newspapers. In November of 1994, Father Jim was elected as a life member of the National Union of Journalists, London, in recognition of his contribution to journalism over a thirty-year span. Father Jim worked in Dublin as a curate and parish priest. For the past number of years, he has been a priest in California, USA. He has four books to his credit: Only on Sunday, which was an instant success; a sequel, called Anyday, also very well received; Short and Simple; and Biddy. This is the second printing of his highly acclaimed Biddy. He also has two manuscripts pending publication. This brief exposé of his mother, Biddy, is really to record something of her life and activities for the benefit of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
[Includes 8 photograph illustrations] On the northern half of Times Square in the heart of New York is a square named after Father Francis Patrick Duffy, a priest whose faith in God was only matched by the attachment to his flock. He is mainly known for his legendary exploits as chaplain of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth regiment (renumbered the 165th in Federal Army List) in the First World War. The regiment, composed of mainly troops of Irish heritage, had historically been at the forefront of the Civil War fighting at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. When the regiment marched to battle in the First World War, the troops were also mainly of an Irish Catholic background, headed by Father Duffy, who was never content to see the men of his charge go off to the front alone and frequently went into the maelstrom of battle as a stretcher bearer. Duffy and his regiment fought at Lunéville enduring a gas attack, before engaging at the Battle of the Ourcq and taking part in the two major American offensives at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne. Perhaps no finer compliment to him was paid by the regimental commander who stated that he and his actions were the key to the keeping unit’s morale high. A fine memoir by a towering figure in American First World War history. “Diary/memoir, June 1917—April 1919. Duffy was chaplain of the 165th Infantry, 42nd Division. An exciting account by the legendary chaplain, recounting his exploits in St. Mihiel, the Argonne, and elsewhere.”- p. 120, Edward Lengel, World War I Memories, 2004, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham Maryland, Toronto, Oxford.
Father Jim Bradley is a native of Navan, County Meath, and was educated at St. Joseph’s Convent of Mercy, Navan, Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick; Breakspeare College, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire; Christleton Hall; Chester; and University College Swansea. As a writer and commentator, he has worked with BBC Wales and the Catholic Universe, Fleet Street, London, and for several years was a regular and highly entertaining columnist with one of Ireland’s Sunday newspapers. In November of 1994, Father Jim was elected as a life member of the National Union of Journalists, London, in recognition of his contribution to journalism over a thirty-year span. Father Jim worked in Dublin as a curate and parish priest. For the past number of years, he has been a priest in California, USA. He has four books to his credit: Only on Sunday, which was an instant success; a sequel, called Anyday, also very well received; Short and Simple; and Biddy. This is the second printing of his highly acclaimed Biddy. He also has two manuscripts pending publication. This brief exposé of his mother, Biddy, is really to record something of her life and activities for the benefit of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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