Paul Cardinal Cullen

by O'Carroll, Ciaran

• ISBN13: 9781847301314
• ISBN10: 1847301312
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Veritas Pubns

Summary

"It was to Ireland, beset with a variety of problems, that Paul Cullen, having spent almost thirty years in Rome, returned in 1850. For twenty-eight years this ecclesiastic, who was destined to become Ireland's first ever Cardinal, dominated Irish ecclesiastical and religious life. His influence in Church affairs was so great that his achievements have been described as 'the Cullenisation of Ireland'." "This book looks at two phases in Cullen's secular activities. It traces his role and influence in two separate movements, one parliamentary, the other revolutionary, both organised to improve the circumstances of Irish Catholics who were poor, wretched and dispirited on his arrival. The first of these campaigns was the Independent Irish Parliamentary Movement of the 1850s, the other, the revolutionary Fenian Movement, prominent in the 1860s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Ciaran O'Carroll has taught ecclesiastical history at Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Milltown Institute, the Priory Institute and the Keough Notre Dame Centre.

Table of Contents

The Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops in Ireland 1850-1870

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 1846-1874

Foreword

Constitutionalism Encouraged

Arrival of Paul Cullen as Archbishop

Religion and Politics: An Uneasy Mix

United We Stand...

...Divided We Fall

The Priests-in-Politics Issue

Disunity Persists

The Tiring Business of Politics

Armed Insurrection Opposed

Enter the Fenians

New Frustrations for the Archbishop

Priests and Revolution

Constitutionalism Disappoints Again

The Fenian Rising and Aftermath

Forward in London; Backward in Rome

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

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