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Article: The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2007
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The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850. By Emmet Larkin. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press and Dublin: The Four Courts, 2006. Pp. xvi, 298. $69.95.)
In the three or four generations before the Great Famine of the late 1840s, the population of Ireland more than doubled, and this increase was especially evident among the majority Roman Catholic population. As the overall numbers of Catholics in Ireland grew, the supply of priests and churches to meet their spiritual needs did not rise fast enough to keep up. The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, still recovering from the era of the penal laws in the ...