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Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond

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Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond - Maher, Eamon, and O'Brien, Eugene
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This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope's address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland's most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of whom were subsequently revealed to have been engaged in romantic liaisons at the time. The decades that followed the Pope's visit were characterised by the increasing secularisation of ...

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Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond 2018, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526129635

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Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond 2017, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526101068

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