Connemara Riots Spar Over Protestant Schools and Catholic Power
A letter to the editor argues that Roman Catholic clergy and laity in Connemara forcibly challenged Protestant schools, prompting police action and legal cases. It cites a December 13 1878 Daily Express report of Canon Cory and Rev. Rhatigan and details subsequent violence, police involvement, and calls for charity toward Ireland’s Protestant communities.
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Connemara
Dublin Evening Mail
the Express
Romish University
Express
the Mail
Trish Church Missionary Society
Ireland
Clifden
Daily Express
Messrs
Armstrong
Wall
Parkinson
R.M
Canon Cory
Ellen Young
Irish Church Mission
Belleek
William Rhatigan
Young
Jesus
Canon Coy
Rhatigan
France
Rome
Rbatigan
MacNeill
Clifden Court-house
Galway
England
Froude
Ecclesiastical notices and court ruling summary
Dr Lignmoor enthroned Bishop of Durham in Durham Cathedral before a large crowd. Bermondsey Endowment Question results shift vestry power to Anti-Church-rate party with majorities in three wards. Duke of Norfolk v Arbuthnot ends in favor of plaintiff for damages over chapel status in Arundel. Rochester bishop criticizes Holy Communion practices at St James Hatcham and urges presentment for repair. A lament over O Mornan burial with infant coffin seen outside Llanfairfechan churchyard.
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Lignmoor
Durham
Bermondsey
Lord Coleridge
Common Pleas
Duke of Norfolk
Arbuthnot
Trenass
Arundel
the Howards
Dukes of Norfolk
Ife
House of Prayer
O. Mornan
Carnarvon Herald
Llanfairfechan
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Cork
Trinity College
Dublin
Free Church of Scotland
Divinity School
M.p.’S
Shaw Lefevre
Hibernicus