The rebel priests of Mullagh—Fr Pat Gaynor, Fr Michael McKenna and the War of Independence

By Áine Hensey In Freedom and the Fifth Commandment: Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1920–21, Brian Heffernan describes the considerable diversity of opinion that existed among Irish Catholic priests during the political and military developments of the years following the 1916 Rising. Particularly intriguing are his references to the unusually revolutionary environment of ... Read more

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