The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall of Parnell, 1888-1891 PDF
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Emmet Larkin demonstrates in this book that a de facto Irish state was created and consolidated by 1891, a generation before it became a legal reality in the Irish Free State'of 1921. Larkin argues that the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell had constructed a political alliance of Leader, Party, and Bishops that, in its dealings with the British government and indeed the Holy See itself, behaved as an independent state. This original thesis will force historians to take a fresh look at the course of events in Ireland during the late nineteenth century. Modern historians of this period have tended to concentrate upon the charismatic figure of Parnell, whose career abounded in dramatic episodes. In contrast, Larkin looks at the same period and the same issues from the viewpoint of those Irish churchmen who commanded as much power in Ireland as did Parnell and who, unlike Parnell, committed their attitudes to paper. By building evidence from episcopal correspondence and from British and Roman sources—by letting them tell their own story—Larkin makes this study in many ways a source book for scholars working on other aspects of Irish history. Despite the efforts of the British Conservative government to break up the alliance between Parnell, the Irish Bishops, and the Irish Parliamen¬ tary party by introducing proposals for higher education for Roman Catholics and attempting to persuade the Holy See to interfere in their interest with regard to the Irish land agitation, and despite LVX I OMNI VM Q\\nVM \y BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND and the FALL OF PARNELL, 1888-1891 The Most Reverend Dr. William J. Walsh Photograph by William Lawrence, Dublin Reprinted by permission of the National Library of Ireland THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND and the FALL OF PARNELL, 1888-1891 by Emmet Larkin The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill © 1979 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-22056 ISBN 0-8078-1352-4 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Larkin, Emmet 1927— The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the fall of Parnell, 1888-1891. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Ireland—Politics and government—1837-1901. 2. Irish question. 3. Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891. 4. Catholic Church in Ireland—History. I. Title DA957.9.L37 322’. 1'09415 78-22056 ISBN 0-8078-1352-4 To MAY McDONAGH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/romancatholicchuOOemme
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