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SpIRE Library

SpIRE’s spirituality outreach is distinguished by the access it provides to a leading specialist library collection of, currently, 8,000 books and associated journals for the study of contemporary and applied spiritualities (1 January 2024). This collection has been carefully built over the past 30 years primarily through the substantial initial book donation of the Irish Jesuits, with a contribution by the Irish Vincentians to the collection after the MA in Applied Spirituality and PhD studies in spirituality ceased at All Hallows College when the College was sold to DCU. Today a modest per capita from South East Technological University for registered students of the MA in Applied Spirituality and the exceptionally generous annual donation of the Presentation Sisters, North East Province enable the stocks to grow in line with the ever new fields of research in spirituality which are developing: e.g., trauma-informed spirituality, spiritual needs of neurodiverse person, and kindness as a spiritual practice. The library resources have been enhanced further by donations from Dr Jack Finnegan, SDB, Fr Myles O’Reilly, SJ, Sr Jennifer Perkins, FMA, by Tom Larkin, Greg Heylin, Pamela May, and Therese Gaynor who are graduates of the MA in Spirituality programme, and by Ina Butterly, a graduate of the evening theology degree at Milltown Institute. Fr Tom Layden, SJ, former leader of the Irish Jesuit Province, chairs the library board: https://spiritualityinstitute.ie/spire-library/

Library Resource Coordinator: Kathleen Lyng, CHF (spirelibrary@gmail.com)

Library Board
Rev Tom Layden, SJ (Chair)
Dr Michael O’Sullivan, SJ
Dr Bernadette Flanagan, PBVM
Dr Noelia Molina
Ms Lisa Power, MA (Secretary)

Library Operations Committee
Dr Bernadette Flanagan, PBVM (Chair)
Dr Michael O’Sullivan, SJ (Secretary)
Sr Kathleen Lyng, CHF, MA

For further information contact Michael, Director of SpIRE, at mosullivan@spiritualityinstitute.ie

 

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The SpIRE Library has the privilege of accompanying readers into new ways of thinking, feeling, imagining and evaluating, enabling them to relate and respond to the world differently, and to know their unique contribution in it more clearly. The library resources enable them to engage defining issues of our day in society and the professions through the lens of spirituality. It enables them to explore lived realities that have shaped the way people make meaning in their lives and to discover more about what it is to be the distinct human person they are and yet can be.

The library collection includes resources on spirituality and childhood, spirituality and leadership, spirituality and ecology, spiritual direction, spirituality and counselling, spirituality and social concern, spirituality and gender, spirituality and education, spirituality and healthcare, spirituality and mysticism, spirituality and cinema, spirituality and pilgrimage, and spirituality and research. It also includes the leading series, World Spirituality Series, Classics of Western Spirituality, Modern Spiritual Masters, Practices of Faith, Studies in Spirituality, Traditions of Christian Spirituality, and The Way of the Christian Mystics.

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