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Catholic Growth Continues
in Northern Census

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

The latest census for Northern Ireland indicates that the numerical gap between Protestants and Catholics is steadily narrowing. According to this year's figures Protestants comprise 53 percent of the population in the North with Catholics making up 44 percent. The census tallies with a familiar trend of a growing Catholic community with the number of Protestants in … [Read more...] about Catholic Growth Continues
in Northern Census

The Church on the Irish Ridge

By Daniel Creedon, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by 1 Comment

The decay of an Irish American landmark. ℘℘℘ The glass factory, feed mills, saloons and boat repair facilities that once lined the canal are gone. But the fitted limestone walls that mark either side of the original waterway are still there -- a testament to Irish immigrants who built it and the many who died in its construction. Bypassed when the "new" Erie Barge Canal was … [Read more...] about The Church on the Irish Ridge

Irish Catholic Church
Faces New Crisis

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Cardinal Desmond Connell may be forced to resign.

The Irish Government is to set up an inquiry into how sex abuse allegations were dealt with in the Dublin diocese amid ongoing allegations that Cardinal Connell and his staff failed to cooperate with police in investigating paedophiles. Cardinal Desmond Connell has repeatedly apologized to the victims of abuse for the hurt they suffered, but his apologies, at this stage, are … [Read more...] about Irish Catholic Church
Faces New Crisis

The Last Word:
The Priestless Parish

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Fr. Michael Collins gets ready for mass.

On the surface everything at two County Clare villages in the west of Ireland appears as it's always been. Church bells tolling across Lough Graney call the faithful to Sunday services at Kilanena and Flagmount. The two churches make up one parish either side of the lake, but these days the parish is getting by without a priest of its own. ℘℘℘ By the time Fr. Michael Collins … [Read more...] about The Last Word:
The Priestless Parish

The Catholic Church in Crisis

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

As in the U.S., the Church in Ireland is in crisis over continuing allegations of clerical child abuse. The scandal has taken its first scalp with the forced resignation of the Bishop of Ferns, Dr. Brendan Comiskey, for his mishandling of child abuse cases in his diocese. But there is ongoing pressure on some of the church's most senior clergymen, particularly Cardinal Desmond … [Read more...] about The Catholic Church in Crisis

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William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s most famous poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century, was born in Sandyhurst, Co. Dublin on this day in 1865 to an upper class Protestant family. He spent much of his childhood in Co. Sligo, which heavily influenced Yeats’s natural themes, and he read classics like Shakespeare, Donne, Alighieri and Shelley. With Lady Gregory, he helped establish the Gaelic Literary Revival and founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He was the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923, followed by Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.

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