Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845
by Sean J. Connolly
Category: History

This is a reprint of the 1982 hardcover edition published by Gill and MacMillan, examining both popular and official Catholicism in Ireland in the two generations before the Famine. Connolly (Irish history, Queen's U., Belfast) considers the condition of the Catholic Church and its clergy, the natur