A quarter of an hour in conversation with the philosopher Richard Kearney at Glenstal Abbey, the Benedictine monastery where much of her singing and writing…
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Irish singer and theologian, born in County Limerick in 1951, who lived sixteen years beside the Benedictine monks of Glenstal Abbey and is an authority on Gregorian chant and Irish spiritual song. Her doctorate set out what she calls theosony, the sound of God: listening itself as a way to religious experience. She has been an ordained interfaith minister since 2017.
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