TURBULENT DIOCESE

Chapter 18  Kilfian InvestigationTurbulent Conduct On proceeding to say Mass on 21st, Rev. Mr Duffy with Lynch and a few other co-operators dragged me off the altar . . . nothing but outrage and insult until the congregation was nearly assembled when they would...

MELANCHOLY TRUTH

Chapter Fourteen       Incident at Belcarra, Mayo ‘The blister of suspension’ Two months after Peter Waldron’s consecration as bishop of Killala on 24.2.1815, the priests of the diocese gathered, as  accustomed and as required, on Holy Thursday for the...
History

History

Even though the boundaries of the diocese of Killala were only settled in the Synod of Rathbrasil in the easily-remembered year of 111l a. d., centuries earlier the importance of church history was noted in the work of Tíreachán, the Patristic scholar, who served as a...
Turbulent Diocese

Turbulent Diocese

The Killala Troubles, 1798 – 1848Brendan HobanChapter 18  Kilfian InvestigationTurbulent ConductOn proceeding to say Mass on 21st, Rev. Mr Duffy with Lynch and a few other co-operators dragged me off the altar . . . nothing but outrage and insult until the...