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The current catholic party. View: https://t.me/irishpatriots/4874

McHale was the notable exception. Crolly and Browne of Kilmore were reflective of hierarchy in not supporting O'Connells efforts. So even when opposition to British control was strictly peaceful and political the Church largely would not lend its support.

Penal laws that were removed when the Church signalled that it would accept the appointment of its UK bishops by the British government, as per the Established church. [O'Connell rejected that craven submission by the Church] The Emancipation Act of 29 made jack all difference to the lives of...

The Fenians were in league with the British state? So the Church were saving the people from the actions of the British state? Of course the Church in Ireland was being fed tens of thousands of pounds a year ever since Peel's Maynooth Act in '46, ensuring that Irish priests and bishops were...

the Irish lived in the squalor of slums, the Irish endured the famine yet Smith O'Brien's rebellion of 1848 was seen off by a few RIC. Collins decapitated the Cairo gang with only a few dedicated volunteers of the Squad. A similar number of dedicated volunteers could cause a major rethink among...

The boots on the ground are no more than the boots on the ground nor the savageness of the British. Peace mass resistance of the Land League days, the political organisation of Parnellite days failed in their primary objectives but still far outstrip the numbers participating in today's...

The Irish people for the vast majority of the 800 year of British occupation acquiesced in their servitude. In conditions that were much worse, materially, than today. Atheism was the rare exception for most of that period too. The church helped the British state to keep the Irish in line. The...