Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

A sympathetic and kindly treatment of the Irish people, who had adhered so strongly to the Catholic faith, might well have been expected of the Catholic Queen. No trace of this appears, however, in her policy. The distinction between the Celtic and the Anglo-Irish Churches was to be maintained. Priests were “to be well chosen [...]

The religious houses of Ireland had served many useful purposes in the social life of the people. They had provided hospitals for the sick, orphanages for poor children, refuges for the aged. The monks and nuns kept boarding schools, in which the boys and girls of the upper classes were educated. In a country where [...]