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some individual clerics offered support to the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War, as Brian Heffernan explains Despite the omnipresence of the Catholic Church in Irish society, our picture of ...
(3 April 1920) A small minority of Irish Catholics, the most notable of whom was journalist Katherine Hughes, favoured a republic for Ireland. When civil war erupted in Ireland between republican ...
Why did Tweed earn the “everlasting loyalty” of many during the Civil War? Based on the clip, why did the “bond” between Tweed and New York City’s Irish Catholics deepen after the Civil War?
The Irish Catholic Church should follow the example of Pope Francis and apologise for its treatment of Irish republicans during the Civil War as the pope had done in relation to events in his own ...
These Irish Americans deserted on account of the vicious anti-Catholic bigotry that infested ... Meagher’s Irish Brigade of the American Civil War. The Meagher in question was Brigadier General ...
The role of the Catholic Church during the Irish Civil War is to be examined this weekend at a conference in Dublin. Taking place on the St Patrick’s Campus of Dublin City University on Saturday ...
Archbishop Eamon Martin reflected on the service of people from all communities in Ireland The role played by Irish ... Catholics felt poorly treated by the Stormont government after the war ...