By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Some of my favorite time spent with a fellow graduate of the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law has involved monks and monasteries rather…
Posts published in August 2025
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A well-known suffragist and advocate for Irish freedom chose to live in Utah and start her family here just over a century ago. Catherine Mary Flanagan…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Forty years ago this fall I started my final year at the University of Utah College of Law. I was on the cusp of a doctorate,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One of the most significant institutions in Utah state history—Catholic schools—started here 150 years ago this month. In 1866, shortly after Brigham Young recommended changes to…