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4 unusual facts about Irish Catholic


Ann Lippert

Lippert is the daughter of an Irish Catholic mother and Chicago-born German father who is a semi-professional bowler.

Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Many of the early settlers in Cascade Township were Irish Catholic.

Kathleen Newton

Kathleen Irene Ashburnham "Kate" Kelly was descended from an Irish Catholic medical family and raised in Agra and Lahore in India.

Marine Park

The neighborhood enjoys many Irish Catholic traditional festivals and is a patriotic American community.


Edwin D. McGuinness

Edwin Daniel McGuinness (17 May, 1856 – 21 Apr, 1901) was Providence's first Irish Catholic mayor.

Robert Downey, Sr.

His father, Robert Elias, was of Russian Jewish descent, and his mother, Betty McLoughlin, was of Irish Catholic background.

The Cardinal

The life of a fictional Irish Catholic priest, Stephen Fermoyle (played by Tom Tryon), is portrayed from his ordination in 1917 to his appointment as a cardinal on the eve of World War II.


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Anthony Richard Blake

He became a protégé of Charles Butler, collecting data on Irish catholic affairs for him during 1811-12, which led to Butler's recommending him to the catholic committee as press officer.

Bless Me Father

It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic priest, Father Charles Duddleswell (Lowe) and his young curate (Abineri) in the fictional parish of St. Jude's in suburban London.

Brother Edmund Rice Catholic Secondary School

Rice's education, like that of every other Irish Catholic of the day, was greatly compromised by the 1709 amendment to the Popery Act, which decreed that any public or private instruction in the Catholic faith would render teachers liable to prosecution, a measure that was not reformed until 1782.

Daubney

John E. Daubney, Irish Catholic mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1952–1954

Donna Haraway

Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when she was 16 years old.

Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty

However, he was prompted to join the rebellion by the atrocities committeed by English President of Munster, William St Leger, against the Irish Catholic population in general.

Ireland's Own

The magazine was designed to offer "wholesome Irish Catholic fare" to challenge the appearance of British newspapers in Ireland like the News of the World (which were denounced as "scandal-sheets" that lowered the moral tone of late 19th century/early 20th century Ireland.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

FitzGibbon opposed the Irish Catholic Relief Act of 1793 personally, but apparently recommended its acceptance (Although he opposed the act personally he recommended its acceptance in the House of Lords) of 1793, being forced out of necessity when that Act had been recommended to the Irish Executive by the British Cabinet led by William Pitt the Younger.

Joseph Ivess

Ivess probably found employment rapidly as the manager of the New Zealand Celt, the Irish Catholic Party's newspaper whose proprietor John Manning was charged with seditious libel for erecting a memorial to the Fenian martyrs of Manchester in the Hokitika Cemetery.

Julia Bracken Wendt

Julia Bracken Wendt, (1870–1942) a notable American sculptor, was born in Apple River, Illinois, the twelfth of thirteen children in an Irish Catholic family.

Ku Klux Klan in Maine

Blaine’s run for the US Presidency in 1884 is generally credited with having been defeated by Irish-Catholic voters angered when a prominent Blaine supporter referred to Democrats as “the party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion”.

McAnespie

Aidan McAnespie (1965–1988), Irish Catholic killed during The Troubles

Merlo, Buenos Aires

The first parish priest was the Irish catholic priest Patrick Joseph Dillon, Juan Dillon’s first cousin.

Peter Kilfoyle

The eleventh of fourteen children born to an Irish Catholic family on Merseyside, Kilfoyle was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St. Edward's College in Liverpool; his father died when he was 10 years old.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas

The members of this family were ministered to by priests from an Irish Catholic settlement, St. Paul in Collin County.

Sharon Maughan

Maughan was born in Kirkby, Lancashire, England, one of 5 siblings in an Irish Catholic family.

Tarring and feathering

Bapst fled Ellsworth to settle in nearby Bangor, Maine, where there was a large Irish-Catholic community, and a local high school there is named for him.

The Burns Sisters

The Burn Sisters were raised as members of a large Irish Catholic family of 12 children in Binghamton, New York.

The Peeler and the Goat

The Penal Laws had been passed with the intent of persecuting the Irish Catholic population and Sir Robert Peel had been appointed Secretary of Ireland by the British Government in 1812.

Virginia Healey Asher

Virginia Healey was born in Chicago to Irish Catholic parents, who however, did not seem to mind their daughter attending services at Moody Church, then pastored by R. A. Torrey, an associate of evangelist Dwight L. Moody.