Welcome to the Irish Augustinians
Provincial Office, St. John's Priory, Thomas Street, Dublin 8. D08F8NW
Tel: +353 (01) 4851516
irish architecture foundation
OPEN HOUSE 2026
17th OCTOBER
Dublin is Living and this year, IAF's flagship festival of architecture, Open House Dublin, returns across Dublin city and County, inviting tens of thousands of people to experience architecture first-hand and engage with buildings, places, ideas and people shaping Dublin, supported by a community of more than 300 volunteers.
Join us here in John's Lane Church, Thomas Street, Dublin 8 on Saturday 17th October from 12.00pm - 04.00pm for tours of our beautiful Church featuring windows by Michael Healy, Earley and Sons, Meyer and Co, and of course the School of Harry Clarke.
The Church, designed in the French Gothic Style by Edward W Pugin was built using Sandstone, Limestone and Granite and also features stone carvings and sculpture by James Pearse and sons.
We look forward to welcoming you.
“Just as the opposition of contraries bestows beauty upon language, then, so is the beauty of this world enhanced by the opposition of contraries, composed, as it were, by an eloquence not of words, but of things.” (St Augustine, City of God 11.18)
augustinian Province of Ireland
Statement
The members of the Order of St. Augustine (Augustinians) in the Province of Ireland rejoice greatly in the election of our brother, Robert Francis Prevost, OSA, as the Bishop of Rome. This is a moment in time of great pride for us and one for which we give praise and thanks to God. We remember with gratitude Pope Leo’s visits to our Province in his role and ministry as Prior General of the Augustinian Order and his fraternal support for our various ministries in our communities throughout the country. We send him our heartiest congratulations and prayerful best wishes in his new and challenging ministry as Supreme Pastor of the Church, and we look forward to welcoming him back to Ireland should such an occasion arise.
a message From the Provincial
The most fundamental message of the Rule of St. Augustine is this:
"Love - Love of God, Love of neighbour - it is the centre of Christian life."
Welcome to the website of the Augustinians in Ireland.
We arrived in Ireland in the 13th century, followers of the Rule of St. Augustine, one of the oldest Rules of Life in the Church. We are a fraternity of Priests and Brothers who live and work in ten locations around the country and our Order has communities in many countries around the world where we serve the Church in a variety of ministries.
I invite you to explore this site and learn more about us.
Paddy O'Reilly OSA
Provincial
The Augustinian Order
We invite you to explore our website and the history of the Irish Augustinians as it’s a history that has its foundations rooted in the rule, writings and teachings of Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). These firm foundations, ancient though they are, have freed us to build communities that look to the future, with the values of unity, truth and love as their guiding principles. So Saint Augustine’s life is as relevant today as it was over 100 or 1000 years ago because he was someone who searched for meaning in his life. However, there is no denying that life has changed since St. Augustine’s time, we have advanced in technology, knowledge and science, but that same search that St. Augustine set out on is still with us today. As St. Augustine said,
‘You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.’