New Ireland by Niall O’Dowd

Author:Niall O’Dowd
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510749306
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2020-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

McQuaid’s “eyes and ears”—his web of often well-placed informants and flunkies across all sectors of society—were on constant alert for any hints of deviance from, or challenges to, the conservative norms, defined and underpinned by church and state. Any green shoot of liberalism or free thought, especially Protestant ideals, alien notions such as women’s rights, and of course the ultimate bogeyman—communism [were shot down, Ó Drisceoil says]. Members of the Catholic Action Network also performed less ”ideological” functions, such as providing the archbishop with inside information from government departments and Dublin corporation’s planning offices, which allowed him to buy land on behalf of the diocese for the building of schools and churches in the capital’s expanding suburbs at bargain prices—a scam that would gladden the hearts of the heathen developers of a later era . . .103

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