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Thomas carr: Archbishop of Melbourne

Thomas Carr:Archbishop of Melbourne. By T. P Boland. (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 1997. Pp. vii, 495. $39.95.)

Thomas Carr was remembered for the completion of Melbourne's impressive St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1897 but for little else before this impressive biography by the prize-winning author of James Duhig appeared. Boland's expert use of Carr's diaries and personal papers breathes unexpected life into the portly figure whose portrait hangs dimly in a cathedral sacristy.

Unlike many of his colleagues, Carr (1839-1917) was not born into the austerities, defeatism" and nationalist resentments of the Irish tenant-farming culture. In his family there were twelve mouths to ...

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