Word: maynooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irish clergy, he thinks, have appeared not to reciprocate the people's regard. In explanation, he offers the fact that the Catholic seminary, established at Maynooth in 1795, was staffed by a number of French professors fleeing the terror of the French Revolution. O'Faolain concludes that their influence stamped generations of Irish priests with distrust of any rebellion against authority. Since the Irish themselves were incorrigibly rebellious, the odd end result, O'Faolain thinks, is "a permanent and positive clerical antipathy to the laity...
...good book written by a good Irishman about those days, Drums is at bottom sentimental and romantic, but the resemblance to the standard stops about there. O'Casey is no standard Irishman; he lives in England, is a Communist,* obviously has no great affection for the powers at Maynooth or Dublin Castle. But he remembers affectionately the Ireland of his young days, though even then he was often dead set against it. With many a "saucy, fine, pene-thratin' phrase," he recalls his own worries and wonderings, the stirrings almost everywhere, the "gospel of discontent smoking faintly...
Born in 1790, Mathew went to Ireland's famed Maynooth seminary, got expelled for his convivial ways. He joined the poverty-praising Franciscans, later got a parish in poverty-ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other as God bears with us all"). On one civic committee he sat with a Quaker, William Martin. When ever the evils of liquor were discussed Quaker Martin would say: "Ah, Theobald Mathew, if thou wouldst take the matter up." One day Father Mathew swore off whisky punch, signed a total...
Cardinal MacRory is a graduate of Maynooth, famed Irish seminary which has sent priests all over the world. He taught there for 26 years before becoming a bishop in 1915. In 1928 he was appointed to St. Patrick's see, got his red hat in 1929. A sharp-tongued Irishman who never minces his words, the Cardinal has positive dislikes-among them, Protestantism ("the Protestant Church here and elsewhere is no part of the Church which Christ founded") and modern civilization (which "increases the opportunity...
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