The Pastoral and Education Letters of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, 1786-1834

by Mcgrath, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781851827770
• ISBN10: 1851827773
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

The brilliant Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin (J.K.L.) was the outstanding Catholic bishop of his time. This major source book is a companion volume to the author's two-volume study of Doyle which won the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize. It comprises the complete corpus of Doyle's pastoral and education letters. The pastoral letters detail the religious renewal and reform of the Irish Church which Doyle led in the era of Catholic Emancipation. The work contains the national pastoral letters written by Doyle in the name of the entire Irish hierarchy. Doyle's letters on education are essential for understanding the background to the founding of the national system of education in 1831. They deal with the education of the poor and include letters to the Catholic Association and Daniel O'Connell.

Author Biography

Thomas McGrath is a research fellow in history of education in the Department of Education, Trinity College, Dublin.

Table of Contents

MAPS	x
PREFACE	1	(2)
INTRODUCTION	3	(123)
1 Constitutions and regulations, January 1820	37	(10)
2 Letter on the Education of the Poor, and the use of the Bible as a school book, January 1820	47	(8)
3 Pastoral Letter, Lent 1820	55	(7)
4 General rules and regulations for the government of the Carlow Free School, 1821	62	(3)
5 Pastoral Instructions, Lent 1821	65	(27)
6 Thoughts on the Education of the Poor, 1821	92	(5)
7 Pastoral Letter against Ribbonmen in the deanery of Kilcock, County Kildare and King's County, November 1822	97	(11)
8 Pastoral Letter, Lent 1823	108	(6)
9 Pastoral Letter concerning the cure of Miss Maria Lalor of Queen's County, June 1823	114	(12)
10 Letter on Education to the Catholic Association, April 1824	126	(5)
11 Kildare and Leighlin Diocesan Statutes, 1824	131	(12)
12 On the state of Education in Ireland, November 1824	143	(12)
13 National Pastoral Letter - Pastoral instructions by the archbishops and bishops, December 1824	155	(19)
14 Pastoral Instructions, Lent 1825	174	(3)
15 Observations on the first report of the Commissioners of Education Inquiry, 1825	177	(17)
16 Letter to clergy- forbidding disputation with biblicals, August 1825	194	(3)
17 National Pastoral Letter - the Pastoral Address on Education and Declaration, of the archbishops and bishops, January 1826	197	(9)
18 National Pastoral Letter Pastoral instructions of the archbishops and bishops on the Jubilee, 1826	206	(11)
19 Pastoral Letter on the Education of the Catholic Poor, August 1826	217	(21)
20 Letter to the Catholic clergy on Proselytism, December 1826	238	(2)
21 Letter on the Catholic Book Society, June 1827	240	(4)
22 Letter on Clandestine Marriage, November 1827	244	(4)
23 Letter on the use of the Potato containing the letter of Sir John Sinclair, January 1828	248	(6)
24 Letter to Daniel O'Connell, on the formation of a National Literary Institute for the extension of science to all classes of Irish youth, 1829	254	(24)
25 Pastoral Letter on Perjury and the Freeholders' Qualification Oath, May 1829	278	(6)
26 Pastoral Letter on Agrarian Agitation in the deanery of Maryboro' in Queen's Count, November 1829	284	(12)
27 First Letter on Temperance, December 1829	296	(4)
28 National Pastoral Letter Address of the Catholic prelates, February 1830	300	(4)
29 Second Letter on Temperance, March 1830	304	(3)
30 Letter to the English Public on the Catholic Chapel at Carlow, September 1830	307	(2)
31 Pastoral Letter on Carlow Cathedral, January 1831	309	(6)
32 Letter on Famine in Galway and Mayo, June 1831	315	(4)
33 Pastoral Letter against Whitefeet and Blackfeet in Queen's County, November 1831	319	(9)
34 Letter on the introduction of the national system of education, December 1831	328	(3)
35 Letter on the Catholic Church in Scotland containing the letter of Bishop Andrew Scott, April 1832	331	(4)
36 Pastoral Letter against Whitefeet and Blackfeet in Queen's County, May 1832	335	(4)
37 Pastoral Letter on the Jubilee proclaimed by Pope Gregory XVI, 1833	339	(3)
38 Pastoral Letter, Lent 1834	342	(5)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	347	(28)
INDEX	375