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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND

 

INTRODUCTION.  Austin Clarke (1896-1974).  "Home Rule is Rome rule."  "People do make their history, but not under conditions of their own choosing" (Karl Marx).

 

I.  RELIGION AND THE IMPERIAL PROBLEM.  Lord John Russell; Ecclesiastical Titles Act (1851).  David Ricardo (1772-1823), English political economist.  Barbie Bachelor (in Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet"):  "We came [to India] to serve God, but God did not follow us out here."

 

II.  THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND.  Characteristics:  1) organizational network; 2) popular trust; 3) opposition to Britain; 4) European ties.  Counterreformation ideal = literate devotion.  Provinces of Roman Catholic Church and Church of Ireland (to 1833):  Armagh, Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam.  Alexis de Tocqueville on Galway City; Dr. William Kinsella, (R.C.) bishop of Ossory (seat at Kilkenny

 

A.  INCREASE OF CLERGY. 

Year

Bishops

Priests

Curates

Total

Catholics/Priest

1800

26

986

628

1,614

2,676

1835

27

993

1,166

2,159

2,991

1845

28

1,008

1,385

2,393

2,773

1851

29

1,014

1,354

2,368

2,214

1861

33

1,036

1,491

2,527

1,783

1871

32

1,080

1,733

2,813

1,476

1881

27

996

1,745

2,741

1,445

1891

32

1,015

1,821

2,836

1,251

1901

29

1,022

1,916

2,938

1,126

 

B.  IMAGE OF THE PRIEST.  Father John Murphy (1798); Battle of Vinegar Hill, Co. Wexford.  Lawrence Taylor, Occasions of Faith:  Father John Magroarty, pastor at Glencolumbkille in Co. Donegal (since 1870); Musgrave family, estate agent Brooke; Mairé Ni' Cunnigean, Donegal shanachie (seanchaidh= loremaster).

 

III.  THE POST-FAMINE SITUATION.  Emmett Larkin.  1850-1900:  R.C. = 77.7% --> 73.9%; Ch. of I. = 12$ --> 13%; Presbyterians = 9% --> 10%.Michael Jones; Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith; National Seminary at Maynooth.

 

A.  THE SPLIT IN THE CHURCH.  Archbishop Daniel Murray (1768-1852) of Dublin; Archbishop John MacHale (1791-1881) of Tuam.

 

B.  JOHN MCHALE, THE "LIGHT OF THE WEST."  Born 1791 at Tobbernavine, Co, Mayo, archbishop of Tuam 1834-81.  Queen's Colleges.  National Catholic University; John Henry Newman.


 

 

IV.  PAUL CULLEN (1803-78) & THE NEW ORDER. 

A.  CULLEN COMES HOME TO IRELAND.  Born 1803 at Prospect, Co. Kildare; educated Quaker School at Ballitore, Co. Carlow, and at Rome; rector of the Irish College in Rome..  Archbishop Michael Slattery of Cashel.  Father Tobias Kirby, rector  of the Irish College in Rome.

B.  THE SYNOD OF THURLES (August 1850). 

 

V.  ROME, IRELAND, AND BRITAIN:  THE EDUCATION QUESTION.  Count Otto von Bismarck.  Syllabus of Errors (1849).  First Vatican Council (1870).

A.  THE CATHOLIC POSITION.  Marquis of Normanby, British minister in Florence.

B.  THE CONFRONTATION WITH THE STATE.  The Earl of Clarendon, viceroy in Ireland.  National University of Ireland (est. 1908).

 
History 152A - Modern Ireland - Spring 2005