Celebrating the life of Fr Joseph Mullooly

04/01/2026

What a beautiful film …. big shout out to Photography by Lissette Carcamo who produced a beautiful short film on the life and times of Fr Joseph Mullooly - from Rathcline to Rome which played to a hugely appreciative crowd in the Pier Inn tonight . Thanks also to Denis Glennon, Fr Turlough and Declan Foxe and family for hosting the event so well in a great parish venue - that has been open since the days of Fr Joseph and his parents Gilbert and Brigid in 1813 as these old photos on the Pier confirm . Lissette put huge work into the film and should be very proud of the reaction tonight. A super production 👏👏

Longford Historical Society

Dominicans Newbridge

Basilica San Clemente

Irish Dominicans

Turlough Baxter Killashee

Longford Leader / Longford Live

Shannonside FM

04/01/2026

OPEN INVITATION:

From Rathcline to Rome :
“Fr Joseph’s Journey”
A short Film Premiere

TODAY Sunday January 4th , 2026 at 5pm on the big screen in the Function Room / Back Lounge of the Pier Inn , Lisnacusha, Lanesborough, County Longford at 5pm

Eircode : N39 N406

Drone footage of the homestead where Fr Joe was born in Lehery, Lanesborough in 1812 - son of Gilbert Mullooly and Brigid Dowd - will feature in the film

Basilica San Clemente

Dominicans Newbridge

Irish Dominicans

Celebrating the life of Fr Joseph Mullooly

Ciaran Mullooly

03/10/2025

A brilliant tribute to Fr Joseph from the Rté Radio Histiry show

Colm Flynn reports, he talks to Father Paul Lawlor at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome.

20/09/2025

Last Wednesday in St Peter’s Square in Rome his Holiness Pope Leo XIV honoured the memory of Fr Joseph Mullooly a Longford man who excavated Basilica San Clemente in the 1800s. The Holy Father was presented with a beautiful wooden crucifix carved from an ash tree at Fr Joseph’s Ancestral home in County Longford by the woodturner Willie Creighton . Our family was deeply honoured to be in St Peter’s square for this special personal occasion - ending a weekend of commemoration for Fr Joseph led by the European Commission Ambasssdor to the Holy See and HE Frances Collins the Irish Ambasssdor to the Holy See. Thank you to everyone who flew in from Ireland for a truly memorable event. We had dozens of family connections there and special thanks to
Bishop Paul Connell
of the diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and Fr Turlough Baxter PP.

What an an incredible week - we will never forget it

18/08/2025

Fr Joseph Mullooly
Author , Theologian & Archaeologist

The Memorial
Lecture : Delivered by Fr Paul Lawler , Basilica San Clemente

at St Mary’s Church, Lanesborough , County Longford on Sunday August 17th, 2025

Introduced by Fr Turlough Baxter PP Rathcline

Post lecture footnotes & thanks - delivered by Ciaran Mullooly MEP

https://c.themediacdn.com/link/http/W6sdzk/GT33B0fsmUZ/mgP9PwsaBFo_1

17/08/2025

Celebrating the life
of
an incredible Irish man