Fergus Tuohy
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Fergus Tuohy
Place, Inheritance and belonging

Essays

  • The Beauty That Will Last: Music, poetry, and a love that outlives exile and dementia

  • Three Weeks Late and Three Hours in the Birth Canal: My belated birthday, and other stories and poems my mother never let me forget

  • An Inheritance of Pride: My parents’ acts of courage helped me overcome my own fears

  • The Real Thing: My father was always himself—especially after his excommunication

  • Speak Up—Not Everyone Can: Before and after the convent, my Irish mother did not hold back

  • Rock the Boat (Part One): An Irish nun, a priest, and the defiance of silence in the face of racial injustice—from the Jim Crow South to today

  • Rock the Boat (Part Two): Finding out my father was on an FBI watch list—Iran, injustice, and the reasons we speak up, then and now

Reported Writing

  • An American Jesuit in Ireland urges the church to welcome LGBT faithful: The Rev. James Martin, a champion of LGBTQ Catholics, headed a conference in Ireland meant to reach out to them

  • 'Hi, Felicia!': This married lesbian mom wants to turn deep-red Alabama seat blue

  • Entering the Holy Land through the back door: A daily dispatch from a reporting journey to Israel and Palestine

  • Sufi spirituality transcends religious borders in the Holy Land

 
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“Fergus is a masterful storyteller. His words will thrill, entertain, inspire and enchant.”

— Meg Kissinger, author of While You Were Out