Life
1816-1885; b. Dublin, ed Maynooth; ord. 1848; parish priest of St Nicholas
Without, 1853; vicar General of Dublin archdiocese; parish priest of Kingstown
(Dun Laoghaire), 1865; built hospital and church; asst. to Archb. Cullen,
1877; successor to see of Dublin, 1877; Cardinal, 1882; wrote on University
education of Catholics, 1879; opposed Land League, and especially denounced
Catherine Parnell as a woman in public life; denounced agitation and No
Rent Manifesto; life threatened by extremists; mbr. Mansion House Committee
for Relief of Poverty. DNB DIH
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NotesResponse to Ladies’ Land League, ‘[D]o not tolerate in your sodalities the women who so far disavows her birth right of modesty as to parade herself before the public gaze.’ (Quoted in Jane Côté and Dana Hearne, ‘Anna Parnell’, in Mary Cullen and Mary Luddy, eds., Women, Power and Consciousness in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Dublin: Attic Press 1995, p.274.)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)