Life
1825-1886; b. Murrish Mullagh, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo; ed. Maynooth and
Irish Colleg, Paris; resigned professorship in Paris after dispute with
Rev. Thomas Riley; parish priest of Tourmakeady (Mt. Partry), and later
Cong; campaigned against proselytism; opposed Archb. Paul Cullen in preaching
the funeral oration for Terence Bellew MacManus in 1861; vice-pres. National
Brotherhood of St. Patrick; supported by IRB; protected by MacHale; later
foresook militant nationalism; associated with Lord Ardilaun during his
period at Cong; legend that he attempted to remove the Cross of Cong from
the National Museum under his cloak; d. Nov., and was mourned by no nationalists.
DIH
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Criticism
Donal McCartney, ‘The Church and the Fenians’, in Maurice Harmon,
ed., Fenians and Fenianism ([Univ. Review] 1968).
Gerald Moran, The Mayo Evictions of 1860: Patrick Lavelle and the ‘War in Partry’ (Westport: Foilseacháin Náisuinta Teoranta 1986).
Gerard Moran, A Radical Priest in Mayo: Fr. Patrick Lavelle, The Rise and Fall of an Irish Nationalist, 1825-1886 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1994), 240pp.
Gerard Moran, Radical Irish Priests 1660-1970 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1998) and forthcoming work by Lucy McDiarmuid.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)