The Place called Reconciliation: Texts to Explore
By David Stevens
These biblical reflections on reconciliation and related themes have been written out of the author's 40 years of involvement in the Corrymeela Community. The particular setting of Northern Ireland has meant that 'reconciliation' has emerged as the Community's overarching narrative for understanding the many facets of the conflict.
The book expands on the biblical reflections in the author's previous book
The Land of Unlikeness: Explorations into Reconciliation, often using the work of the French literary critic Rene Girard. Girard's work on religion and violence has alerted us to the presence of rivalry, conflict, scapegoating, exclusion and sacred violence in biblical texts and opened up the Bible to show its strangeness and newness. He has also spoken profoundly into a Northern Irish context.
David Stevens was the Leader of the Corrymeela Community, however due to an untimely illness sadly died in May 2010. He had also been General Secretary to the Irish Council of Churches (1992-2003).
ISBN: I 873739 31 1
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Land of Unlikeness: Explorations into Reconciliation
by David Stevens 
The Land of Unlikeness comes out of the experience of living in the society of Northern Ireland, which has undergone some level of political violence during the whole of the author's adult life. It is, therefore, about Northern Ireland, but it is also about more, namely the many other societies experiencing violent conflict or coming out of violent conflict.
The book asks questions: Can such societies make good again? What can Christian faith bring to the search for reconciliation? In exploring the answers to these questions, David Stevens looks at the meaning of reconciliation and offers biblical and theological perspectives.
At the heart of the book is an examination of the vital question of dealing with the past, in particular how the complex and multi-stranded weave of forgiveness, justice, truth and repentance can overcome the past. The book is primarily interested in the resource Christians can bring to the search for reconciliation, particularly in a social and political context.
ISBN: 1 85607 437 4
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The War Diaries: From Prisoner-of-War to Peacemaker: by Ray Davey
When Ray Davey set sail from Belfast, Northern Ireland to North Africa in November 1940, little did he suspect how his experiences would change his life. While carrying out duties with the YMCA, Davey bore witness to the ebb and flow of the Desert War, observing how the men around him dealt with the day-to-day realities of possible capture or death, often with great humour and greater courage.
When Davey himself was captured and transferred to prisoner-of-war camps in Italy and Germany, he began to try to find meaning in the conflict raging around him. By writing down his observations in a series of notebooks, chronicling both the grand drama and the intimate detail of life in a theatre of war, he embarked on a spiritual voyage, learning vital and positive lessons that he would carry back with him to post-war Northern Ireland.
These remarkable diaries, charting the author’s emotional journey from Tobruk to Dresden, provide an exciting and important addition to the literature of the Second World War.
ISBN: 0 9544867 7 3
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Take away this hate: The Story of a Search for Community by Ray Davey
This is the story of a pilgrimage—Ray Davey's pilgrimage from his Protestant childhood in the village of Dunmurry near Belfast to the founding and continuing work of Corrymeela. His formative experiences included service and imprisonment during World War II and the horrors of the Dresden bombing. Out of this, and his work as Queen's University chaplain in a Northern Ireland increasingly tormented by sectarian violence, came Corrymeela—a Christian community dedicated to reconciliation. Ray Davey's quest for community is both an absorbing story and a direct challenge.
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Six of the Best: Stories for My Grandchildren by Ray Davey
Ray Davey has been honoured in Ireland and beyond as the founder of Corrymeela - the Community that invites thousands each year to join them on the journey from conflict to reconciliation. Once himself described as "the quiet visionary", he has an unshakeable belief in young peoples' own imagination, energy and vision.
Ray's stories for his nine grandchildren - six stories for each - encapsulates the experiences, lessons and adventures of a lifetime that he wishes to pass on to those he loves best. A wonderful gift for them and for anyone who shares these stories with them.
ISBN: 1 873739 15 X
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In War and Peace: The Story of Corrymeela
By Alf McCreary
Throughout the years of the Troubles, Corrymeela gained acknowledgement worldwide for its efforts in promoting peace against a background of ongoing turmoil. Now, with the guns silenced and the politicians talking together, the Community faces new challenges. In this frank and timely book, award-winning journalist Alf McCreary traces the history of Corrymeela, telling of its often fraught, but ultimately successful, efforts to spread "the pollen of peace".
ISBN: 978 1 905474 15 8
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Travelling The Road of Faith: Worship Resources from the Corrymeela Community
Edited by Jacynth Hamill Photography by Helen Baird
Corrymeela have members scattered all over the British Isles and beyond. They come from all sections of society, all walks of life, and all of the major denominations. As a dispersed community these members carry on the work of Corrymeela wherever they live and work, through their churches, and in social, political and professional concerns. They work in close co-operation with many others who share Corrymeela's vision and work. There is a network of "Friends of Corrymeela" and there are numerous local support groups throughout the world. Members and friends meet in local "cell" groups for mutual support, study, and worship. Often they become involved together in local projects in response to Christ's call to every Christian to be a peacemaker, working for the building of lasting justice and harmony.
This worship book is a compilation of suggested Liturgies, Prayers and Songs.
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An Unfinished Journey: An Anniversary Anthology of the Corrymeela Community 1965-1986
By Ray Davey
This anthology is to mark the 21st anniversary of the Corrymeela Community - one of the earliest Christian reconciliaton groups in Northern Ireland. It tries in words and pictures to share with the reader something of the struggle, excitement and hope of the journey as well as its pain and frustration.
It is edited by the Founder, Ray Davey and contains over 150 photographs, more than 80 articles and interviews in addition to poems, songs and quotations.
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In Another Light: The Poetry of Kathleen Davey & Mark Kennedy
Kathleen Davey's poems are concerned with the heart. They are pure impressionist - with nature her chief inspirer. There is contemplation, honesty, even anger in some poems but never malice or despair.
Mark Kennedy writes of alienation and concern for individual rights - against 'being broken' - both culturally and mentally... of reluctant medication and a childhood trapped in a city of 'psychological corridors.'
ISBN: 1 873739 27 3
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The Pilgrim The Island and The Dove: A Story of Saint Columba
Text by Norman Richardson
Illustrations by Yvonne Naylor
Columba lived 1,400 years ago, and so the information we have about him is sketchy. As with any other historical figure, historians must try to find accounts of his life from as far back as possible, but the further back in time we go, the harder it is to find them. The earliest detailed account of Columba's life was written about a hundred years after his death, by a monk called Adomnan who wanted to show how important and special a figure Columba had been.
Many other people have written about Columba and Iona over the centuries. This version of the story is just one way of telling it.
The Pilgrim, The Island and the Dove was written in Northern Ireland during the period approaching the 1400th anniversary of Columba's death, and one of our main reasons for writing it is to show how Columba's story relates to both Northern Ireland and Scotland, in the past and in the present.
ISBN: 1 873739 12 5
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I will Dance Again: A first collection from the Knocklayd Writers Group
Edited by Kathy Galloway
The Corrymeela Knocklayd Writers Group came into being at a creative writing weekend at Knocklayd in the Autumn of 1999. As someone who had the privilege of being present there, and impressed as I was both with the quality of work presented and with the community that immediately began to be formed amongst these passionate writers, it was an honour to be invited to edit this small collection of their writing to be shared with the wider Corrymeela constituency.
Perhaps that is particularly precious in a country in which simply being human sometimes seems incredibily difficult. For someone reading from outside, the pain is evident, perhaps most so in its effect on young people. It would be less truthful work if it was more palatable. But there is a lot of hope here too, perhaps as the dominant note, and the title seemed to leap out at me from Mark Kennedy's poem, as a hope, as a form of resistance to dehumanisation, and above all as the affirmation of community, persistence and friendship which are characteristic both of these writers and the Corrymeela Community itself.
I hope that others have as much pleasure in reading them as I have had in editing them.
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Anna's Cook Book
Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, there is not better way of complimenting the cook than by asking: "Please may I have the recipe?"
How many times has our own Anna been asked to share her "secrets" and how willingly has she given them. How many well fed husbands around the world bless the day that their wives arrived for voluntary service in the Corrymeela kitchen?
What better way to mark Corrymeela's 40th anniversary and Anna's 40 years of dedicated service to the community, than to reprint the Cookbook with both metric and imperial quatities, thus making the recipes available to a new generation of Corrymeela Cooks. The recipes are, of course, Anna's, any mistakes are the Editors!
Sadly Anna passed away in May 2007.
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Go in Peace CD
All songs Roger Courtney
Througout the past 40 years of civil conflict in Northern Ireland, the Corrymeela Community has been a beacon of light - representing values based on peace and reconciliation, respect for diversity and a commitment to justice and human rights.
As Northern Ireland works its way slowly and falteringly towards political accommodation and shared institutions of government, there is still a huge task for Corrymeela in tackling the enduring sectarian attitudes that permeate our land.
One of the best ways of sharing this message is through music. One of the most notable examples of this is The Pollen of Peace, a peace hymn written by Roger Courtney and sung by guest artist Peter Corry.
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Go in Peace Songbook - Roger Courtney
Words and music score to accompany the CD Go in Peace.
Available by email and in the Corrymeela Bookstore - 028 9050 8080 - £14.00. (postage & packaging will apply to mail orders.)
Why not buy both CD and Songbook titled Go in Peace at the price of £20 making a saving of £6
Available by email and in the Corrymeela Bookstore - 028 9050 8080 - £20.00. (postage & packaging will apply to mail orders.)
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