The Consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1860-1870

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by  Emmet J Larkin

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The Consolidation of
the Roman Catholic Church
in Ireland, 1860-1870
PAUL CARDINAL CULLEN, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN
(courtesy of the President of St. Patrick’s College, Dublin)
The Consolidation of
the Roman Catholic Church
in Ireland, 1860-1870
Emmet Larkin
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill and London
To My Mother
Fred L. Mathews Library
Southwestern Michigan College
Dowagiac, MI 49047
Both the initial research and the publication of this work
were made possible in part through grants from
the National Endowment for the Humanities,
a federal agency whose mission is to
award grants to support education, scholarship,
media programming, libraries, and museums,
in order to bring the results of
cultural activities to a broad, general public.
© 1987 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Larkin, Emmet J., 1927—
The consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church
in Ireland, 1860-1870.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
I. Catholic Church—Ireland—History—1oth century.
2. Ireland—Church history—roth century. I. Title.
BXI505.L36 1987 282'.415 86-25059
ISBN 0-8078-1725-2
Contents
Preface
Vii
The Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops in Ireland,
1860-1870
Abbreviations
Xili
Prologue
XV
Part I: The Bishops as a Body
The Temporal Power: August 1859—March 1861
II The Economics of Politics: September 1860—
September 1863
5I
III The One Thing Essential—Education: December
1859—June 1864 113
The One Thing Necessary—Unity: May 1859—April 1865 181
Part II: The Problem of Politics
The Revolutionary Challenge: August 1863—
December 1864 237
The Constitutional Response: January 1864~June 1865 275
vi Contents
VII The National Association: July 1865—September 1866 341
VIII Fenianism: January 1865—March 1868 394
Part III: Consolidation
441
The University Question: May 1865—June 1868
441
Whigs, May 1865-—June 1866
493
Tories, July 1866—June 1868
The Bishops as a Body: May 1864—March 1870
533
The Liberal Alliance: March 1868—March 1869 585
Consolidation: December 1868—May 1870 628
Epilogue 686
Bibliographical Note 695
Index 697