Download or read book Priests and People in Pre-famine Ireland, 1780-1845 written by Sean J. Connolly and published by Four Courts Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of the 1982 hardcover edition published by Gill and MacMillan, examining both popular and official Catholicism in Ireland in the two generations before the Famine. Connolly (Irish history, Queen's U., Belfast) considers the condition of the Catholic Church and its clergy, the natur