I am a freelance writer and broadcaster based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
I write for the BBC and the Belfast Telegraph and others.
I have published five books:
- The Trouble With Guns,
- I Was A Teenage Catholic,
- The Telling Year, Belfast 1972.
- Empty Pulpits: Ireland’s retreat from religion.
- Under His Roof
People who will not enjoy this blog and might as well leave now:
Sentimental Irish Americans yearning for a taste of the Old Country, particularly chauvinistic patriots.
People who might feel at home here:
Freethinkers who can tolerate me being wrong the odd time, and about most things.
Contact me: malachi -at – malachiodoherty.com (‘at’ means ‘@’, of course)
Hello Malachi. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your reading yesterday at the Wildgeese Festival in Strangford. It was my first time attending a writers’ workshop and I enjoyed the whole experience. I even managed to pick up the courage to read my awkward piece about my grandfather being father and ghost of the family.
Really enjoying your blog.
All the best,
Pauline
[...] make his alarming views known in the discussion of Empty Pulpits a book by Malachi O’ Doherty, who responded to the posting of 11th April on 31st July (Feast of St.Ignatius Loyola) thus: [...]
[...] last year, when Eamon Maher talked up a truly awful book about Irish Catholicism (Empty Pulpits by Malachi O’Doherty) and recommended to to every reader of the Irish Catholic [...]
Perhaps Catholic may give some respect and understanding of true Protestantism and look into the history of such people as Jan Huss and Martin Luther. I would sugest that not a lot has changed in Rome as it was in thier day.