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	Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church
		Today, Morrissey, who identifies herself on her voice mail as the archdiocese's cabinet secretary for public relations and communications, is often the public face of the diocese at the center of the mushrooming crisis that has engulfed the global Catholic Church.
		''Donna Morrissey had the obligation as a PR person to provide the advice that would have kept this train from running away, and she did not,'' declared one former church official and member of Cardinal Bernard F. Law's cabinet who asked not to be identified.
		When Morrissey was offered the job toward the end of 2000, she was delighted for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was, according to several sources who worked with her at Regan, a substantial increase in pay over the $85,000 she was earning at Regan.
	www.boston.com /globe/spotlight/abuse/print2/050902_morrissey.htm (2175 words)

	Commission defends archdiocese on reforms: 7/17/02
		Donna Morrissey, foreground, spokeswoman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, is surrounded by members of the media as she responds to questions outside Cardinal Bernard Law's residence in Boston in April.
		Morrissey was questioned yesterday in Boston by attorneys representing priest abuse victims seeking a settlement with the archdiocese.
		Archdiocese spokeswoman Donna Morrissey was questioned in a deposition related to the clergy abuse scandal yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/07-02/07-17-02/a03sr020.htm (707 words)

	The Plain Dealer - Mother, daughter graduate together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Donna Morrissey went to college in 2001, she never thought that five years later she would be graduating with her daughter, Christine.
		Donna Morrissey isn't just sure yet as to what she wants to do with her degree, but Villanova and Rutgers are options for transfers.
		Donna Morrissey said that aside from the fact that she originally started at GCC five years ago but had to leave, she wasn't in sync to graduate with her daughter anyway.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=16757663&BRD=1691&PAG=461&dept_id=42127&rfi=6 (375 words)

	Boston.com \| Latest News \| Region
		Donna Morrissey at an April press conference in front of the Archdiocese headquarters.
		Morrissey is a former television news producer and public relations executive who joined the staff of Cardinal Bernard F. Law about two years ago as cabinet secretary for communications.
		Morrissey has dropped out of the public eye somewhat since the resignation of Law as archbishop in December, and his subsequent move to suburban Washington.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/22/morrissey_resignation.htm (353 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Books \| Sylvanus Now
		The beauty of Donna Morrisseyâs third novel lies in its very specific language: set in the rugged outport of Cooney Arm, Sylvanus Now is rich in the everyday poetics of Newfoundland speech, in flakes and stages and skullies and spit.
		Morrisseyâs environmental message is clear, but only occasionally does it get the better of her story.
		Morrisseyâs book is an elegy as well as a tale of survival, and itâs one that will find sympathetic readers all the way from St. Johnâs to Sointula.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=11094 (363 words)

	Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
		This stunning new novel from beloved storyteller Donna Morrissey is a powerful tale of two people caught in the upheaval of personal, social, and global change of unimagined proportions.
		Morrissey’s prose, threaded with echoes of Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell, is a perfect fit for her almost mythical story of fractured families, wars, and homecomings.
		Donna Morrissey has created in KIT'S LAW an extraordinary trinity of women, and charted for our vast entertainment their piquant and heroic adjustments in relation to those who have power in Newfoundland's Haire's Hollow - men such as the starchy Reverend Ropson, his son Sid, the local doctor, and the murdering, raping jailbird Shine.
	www.slopenagency.ca /authors/Morrissey/morrissey.html (1486 words)

	WFNS: Donna Morrissey
		Donna Morrissey is originally from The Beaches in Newfoundland.
		Donna left this small outport on the west coast of the island when she was sixteen.
		"The strength of Morrissey's novel lies in the true voices of her characters, the strong story line and the vitality of the setting and the people.
	www.writers.ns.ca /Writers/dmorrissey.html (481 words)

	Press Release for Downhill Chance published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		Donna Morrissey's highly acclaimed debut novel, Kit's Law (Mariner, 2001), a rich portrait of life in one remote Newfoundland community, was a reader and reviewer favorite worldwide and earned Morrissey comparisons to Thomas Hardy, Annie Proulx, and William Faulkner.
		Written with Morrissey's singular blend of earthiness and mysticism, her strong sense of place and larger-than-life characters, DOWNHILL CHANCE is a story that spreads beyond the windswept coastline of Newfoundland and encompasses universal themes of human frailty, redemption, and the powerful ties of family and community.
		Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, a small outport with no electricity, telephones, or roads on the west coast of Newfoundland.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/morrissey (1378 words)

	Reviews
		Having met Donna Morrissey a few years ago and after attending a reading of Downhill Chance this summer in Nova Scotia, Canada, I was anxious to read the novel of this up and coming Canadian author.
		Donna Morrissey, a native “Newfoundlander”, now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is part of a growing interest in anything “Newfoundland”, Canada’s eastern-most province.
		Morrissey is able to develop characters with tremendous gentleness and caring, many of which, like Job, are “scarred” psychologically, have deep secrets, or are seen as outcasts by the community.
	www.cercles.com /review/r8/morrissey.html (1322 words)

	J. Morrissey & Co. - JMCO General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Morrissey is a member of The Hartford Club, is a member of the Multiple Sclerosis Corporate Achievers Advisory Group, served on the 2005 Annual Gala Committee for the Arthritis Foundation of Connecticut and is a past member of the Jimmy Fund Council of Connecticut and The Rotary Club of Hartford.
		Morrissey is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Connecticut and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accounts.
		Donna is a 1990 cum laude graduate of Quinnipiac University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Management.
	www.jmorrissey.com /jm_co2.htm (1304 words)

	American International College
		AIC students are studying marketing and communications issues, and Morrissey has an array of experience that will allow them to see the opportunities that are available to those who endeavor for a career in communications.
		Morrissey works for the New England region of the American Red Cross, and is responsible for the development of strategic public relations campaigns promoting, the services and philosophies of blood services.
		Morrissey enjoys speaking to undergraduate and graduate students and public relations industry groups.
	www.aic.edu /pages/933.html (256 words)

	Amazon.com: Building Your Field of Dreams: Books: Mary Manin Morrissey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This book chronicles Morrissey's realization of her dream to create a ministry (she founded the Living Enrichment Center in Oregon) from her unlikely beginning as a teenage wife and mother and lays out a step-by-step method to become "a cocreator with God" and follow your true calling.
		There is no question that Morrissey is sincere in her desire to help people tap into God's power in order to realize their dreams, but she often uses tired spirituality cliches, like the Zen master who pours tea until it overflows (indicating the cluttered mind).
		Morrissey, a bright homecoming queen, was enjoying her junior year in high school when she became pregnant.
	www.amazon.com /Building-Field-Dreams-Manin-Morrissey/dp/0553378147 (2270 words)

	Donna Morrissey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, a small village on the northwest coast of Newfoundland that had neither roads nor electricity until the 1960s a place not unlike Haire’s Hollow, which she depicts in Kit’s Law.
		When she was sixteen, Morrissey left The Beaches and struck out across Canada, working odd jobs from bartending to cooking in oil rig camps to processing fish in fish plants.
		It was not until she was in her late thirties that Morrissey began writing short stories, at the urging of a friend, a Jungian analyst, who insisted she was a writer.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=7771 (176 words)

	Poynter Online - Abuse Tracker
		Donna M. Morrissey, who served as the public face of the Archdiocese of Boston throughout the clergy sexual abuse crisis, has left her job as spokeswoman for the church.
		Morrissey, who was brought in to improve the church's public relations in January 2001, left the archdiocese on April 28, a spokesman for the archdiocese said yesterday.
		Her tenure was dominated by the worst public-relations crisis in the history of the church, as the archdiocese struggled to explain why it had failed to remove scores of abusive priests from ministry.
	www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.46/aid.33194/column.htm (185 words)

	Around campus
		At 6 pm in Moyse Hall, Donna Morrissey will be reading from her third, and newest, novel Sylvanus Now.
		Morrissey is the author of three critically acclaimed works - not bad for a self-proclaimed "high school dropout" who "fell into" creative writing a decade ago after being misdiagnosed with a terminal illness.
		Morrissey says that the subsequent good news that she was not seriously ill, "got me racing to catch up with the world."
	www.mcgill.ca /reporter/38/04/campus (1008 words)

	Poynter Online - Abuse Tracker
		BOSTON (AP) Donna Morrissey, spokeswoman for the Boston archdiocese during the clergy sex abuse scandal, has left the job she publicly described as a ''nightmare'' that regularly reduced her to tears.
		The Rev. Christopher Coyne, brought in to assist Morrissey at the height of the scandal, was named to replace her on an interim basis.
		Morrissey's departure was announced Thursday, more than a week after her last day on April 28.
	www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.46/aid.33083/column.htm (156 words)

	Quill & Quire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		June 2005: To read Sylvanus Now, the third novel from Donna Morrissey, is to be immersed in the life of a Newfoundland outport community in the middle of the last century.
		The world of the outports (where Morrissey was born, although she now lives in Halifax) is one of indiscriminate tragedy and loss, where hills become widowâs walks and cemeteries are kept close.
		Perhaps Morrisseyâs greatest asset as a writer is that ring of truth.
	www.quillandquire.com /reviews/review.cfm?review_id=4434 (551 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - 'Sylvanus Now' takes two Atlantic Book Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donna Morrissey was a double winner at the Atlantic Book Awards for her novel Sylvanus Now.
		Morrissey, who now lives in Halifax, said her father inspired the character Sylvanus, a fisherman who reflects on the passing of outport life.
		Morrissey said the book awards were both important recognition for her work as well as a welcome financial boost.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/04/30/atlantic-book-prize.html (1396 words)

	Interview \| Donna Morrissey
		Donna Morrissey had never considered being a writer: it was more than not a possibility, it wasn't even an option she'd thought about.
		Morrissey has strong opinions on just about everything as well as the ability to express these views engagingly.
		Donna Morrissey now makes her home in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she is at work on her third novel.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/morrissey.html (2549 words)

	Donna Morrissey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donna Morrissey (born in 1956 at The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.
		At age 16 Morrissey left her birthplace, The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland.
		Morrissey has written two prize-winning novels — Kit's Law and the national best seller Downhill Chance — and one prize-winning screenplay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donna_Morrissey (160 words)

	Donna Morrissey (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donna Morrissey left her birthplace, the Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland, when she was 16.
		Donna Morrissey?s first novel, Kit?s Law, won the2000 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award,as well as the Winifred Holtby Prize, and wasshortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada...
		Donna Morrissey Donna Morrissey is originally from The Beaches in Newfoundland.
	www.1kwd060.info.cob-web.org:8888 /Donna-Morrissey.htm (320 words)

	Amazon.com: Downhill Chance: A Novel: Books: Donna Morrissey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With vivid imagery and a fantastic ear for dialect, Morrissey breathes life into the small harbor town, where gossiping neighbors and eccentrics are a small price to pay for the comforts of living in a place where everyone knows one another.
		The novel is overstuffed with plot turns and family melodrama, but Morrissey keeps the story moving at a pleasant clip; readers may lose track of subplots, but they won't be bored.
		Morrissey is capable of bursts of lush, melodic prose, but she never gets caught up in her own eloquence.
	www.amazon.com /Downhill-Chance-Novel-Donna-Morrissey/dp/0618189270 (1323 words)

	2003 Festival Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donna Augustine is a Mi'kmag storyteller and singer from the Big Cove First Nation reserve in New Brunswick.
		Donna has spoken at various National Conferences, Universities, High Schools, Grade schools and Homeless dwellings regarding important issues such as Culture, Peace, Racial Harmony, and Unity.
		Donna studied at Memorial University in St. John's and has lived in various parts of Canada before settling in Halifax.
	www.northropfrye.com /previous/03authors.htm (4526 words)

	Morrissey-solo \| Madonna strums to The Smiths
		If you're a Morrissey fan you're not supposed to like her...Oh well, I've been blessed with the ability to express my own opinion.
		After Madonna released LIKE A PRAYER in 1989 Morrissey actually said that he was impressed with her and the way she stuck two fingers up to "authority", and took back his earlier comments.
		You know..i've been a HUGE madonna fan since I was 11 and I agree that...I don't think sex would be on television in America as much as it is now, if it weren't for her which is not a good thing.
	www.morrissey-solo.com /article.pl?sid=03/03/31/0626210&mode=thread (1396 words)

	DOWNHILL CHANCE - Donna Morrissey - Readers Groups
		With the bestselling and beloved Kit's Law, Donna Morrissey established herself as a stunning new voice in Canadian fiction.
		Clair is the unsinkable heart of the novel, a story of two families during wartime—the Osmonds and the Gales—joined by love, yet torn apart by fear and secrets.
		Morrissey blends melodrama, gritty realism and a flair for the comic in this unique novel.
	bookclub.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,6_9780143033608,00.html (1252 words)

	WFNS: imPRESSed!
		It is the Fifties in an isolated outport in Newfoundland, and the Reverend Ropson is trying to send Kit Pitman to an orphanage and her mentally handicapped mother, Josie, to an institution.
		At the centre of this stark debut novel is Kit herself, who must experience extremes of pain on her way to redemption.
		Donna Morrissey left The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland where she was born, when she was sixteen.
	www.writers.ns.ca /e_press8.html (1243 words)

	UPEI
		Newfoundland writer Donna Morrisey, author of KIT'S LAW and DOWNHILL CHANCE, returns to P.E.I. on Tuesday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m.
		Donna Morrissey "indulges in the full spectrum of passion and tragedy, sin and redemption, despair and optimism like a twentieth century Bronte sister," writes The Daily News.
		This event takes place in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building, and is co-sponsored by the P.E.I. Writers' Guild, the Canada Coucil for the Arts, and the Reading Well Bookstore.
	www.upei.ca /cgi-new/view.cgi?id=1728 (119 words)

	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston - Latest Statements and Press Releases
		October 31, 2002 - Statement of Donna M. Morrissey, Spokeswoman, Archdiocese of Boston on the Reinstatement of Msgr.
		Statement of Donna M. Morrissey, Spokeswoman, Archdiocese of Boston May 31, 2002 on Fr.
		Statement of Donna M. Morrissey, Spokeswoman, Archdiocese of Boston May 2, 2002 on Fr.
	www.rcab.org /News/releases/archive2003-2002.html (1280 words)

	Sylvanus Now (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Through this story of love, loss, and facing the inevitabilities of life in a floundering community, the sea is a potent presence, modernization ravaging its shores and bringing it to the cusp of cataclysmic change.
		Ultimately, Sylvanus Now is a story of redemption against all odds “in a world vanished, but brought vividly back to life in Morrissey’s caring hands” (Quill and Quire).
		Donna Morrissey is the award-winning author of Kit’s Law and Downhill Chance, and the screenplay Clothesline Patch.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring06/032869.htm (197 words)

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