The Church, the State, and the Fenian Threat, 1861-75. (Book Reviews and Notes).

Church History | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

The Church, the State, and the Fenian Threat, 1861-75. By Oliver P. Rafferty. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xviii + 229 pp. $69.95 cloth.

Since the seventeenth century, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has been of two minds regarding nationalist and radical agitation against the British-controlled government. On the one hand, the church hierarchy has resisted those groups in part because they also challenged the church's own authority in Ireland. On the other, some clergy, generally the parish priests closer to the people, had much more sympathy for these ...

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