page_title: John MacHale
hierarchical_section_title: John MacHale
caption_attribution_description: Tuam, County Galway, Ireland Detail of marble statue of Archbishop John MacHale on the grounds of the Cathedral of the Assumption. Sculpted by Sir Thomas Farrell (1827–1900) in Dublin.
context_page_description: John MacHale was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish nationalist.
  He laboured and wrote to secure Catholic Emancipation, legislative independence, justice for tenants and the poor, and vigorously assailed the proselytizers and the government's proposal for a mix-faith national school system. He preached regularly to his flock in Irish and ‘almost alone among the Bishops he advocated the use of Irish by the Catholic clergy.’
context_section_description: John MacHale (Irish: Seán Mac Éil; 6 March 1789 – 7 November 1881) was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish nationalist.
  He laboured and wrote to secure Catholic Emancipation, legislative independence, justice for tenants and the poor, and vigorously assailed the proselytizers and the government's proposal for a mix-faith national school system. He preached regularly to his flock in Irish and ‘almost alone among the Bishops he advocated the use of Irish by the Catholic clergy.’
caption: Sculpture of John MacHale by Sir Thomas Farrell (1827–1900) at the site of Tuam Cathedral. The cathedral was completed on 18 August 1837 during his archbishopric.[1]
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