2.

IRELAND

2

AND

HER CHURCHES.

BY

JAMES GODKIN.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1867.

(70)

The Insurrection of 1867,

Sir Robert Peel on the Coercive System, .

Fenianism-What it signifies,

Ireland and her Sovereign,

Irish Viceroys,

For what should the Irish Roman Catholics be loyal ?

PART FIRST.

REVIEW OF THE PAST.

CHAPTER I.

Ireland v. England, before an International Court,

Meditations on Irish monuments, .

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Anglican claim of Episcopal succession in Ireland,

Alleged conversion of the Marian bishops,

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Prelatic persecution of Presbyterians under Anne and the two first

Georges,

Rise of Unitarianism,

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CHAPTER IV.

State of the Roman Catholic Church from the Reformation to the

The Roman Catholic Church from the Revolution to the Union,

Wretched condition of the Roman Catholics in Dublin at the close

of last century,

Contrasted with the Established Church,

CHAPTER V.

Progress of religious liberty in the present century,

Trial of the Rev. Thomas Emlyn in Dublin for heresy and blas-

phemy,

The late Rev. Dr. Montgomery,

Nonconformists in Dublin,

Present state of Ulster Presbyterianism,

The late Bishop Doyle and his Church reforms-(J.K.L.),

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CHAPTER VII.

Attempts of Parliament to settle the Irish Church question,

Lord Cloncurry on Irish agitation,

The Tithe-proctor system described by Grattan,

The anti-tithe war,

Deplorable destitution of the Established clergy, .

The Government becomes Tithe-collector, and utterly fails,

Deputation of Irish prelates to the King,

The Church Temporalities Act,

The Irish Church and National Education,

Great debate on the Appropriation Clause,

A Protestant chaplain to the Virgin Mary,

Waste of resources on forsaken parishes,

"The Liberty" of Dublin,

St. Nicholas Within The Established Church in a garret,

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Irish Church Missions in Dublin,

St. Mary's, Grangegorman, St. Thomas's, and St. George's,

Pay of the Dublin curates,

Church statistics of Dublin city,

CHAPTER X.

Non-parochial churches in Dublin,

Chaplains of voluntary churches made bishops,

The Molyneux Asylum, and other Free churches,

Dr. Verschoyle-Why made Bishop of Kilmore,

Success of "literates" in Free churches, .

Non-parochial churches the most active, prosperous, and respect-

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