{"id":220678,"date":"2025-12-31T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:52:11","slug":"remembering-john-odonohue-a-poet-author-and-sage-who-offered-words-and-learnings-for-a-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220678\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering John O\u2019Donohue, a poet, author and sage \u2013 who offered words and learnings for a modern life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ahead of what would have been his 70th birthday, he is fondly remembered in an excerpt from John Scally\u2019s \u2018Extraordinary GAA People\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John O'Donohue. Photo: Eric Luke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jonno.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John O&#8217;Donohue. Photo: Eric Luke<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I always felt John O\u2019Donohue was christened wrongly. I think he should have been given the Russian name Alexa. It means defender of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He was best known for Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (1997), which became an international bestseller. Such was its success, it was reprinted six times in its first year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of what would have been his 70th birthday, he is fondly remembered in an excerpt from John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30041,93,4183,97,292,61,60,3410,4268,3589,15120,2040,5936],"class_list":{"0":"post-220678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-clare-gaa","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gaa","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-palestine","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-trinity-college-dublin","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}