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  2. Religion in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The article also establishes freedom of religion (for belief, practice, and organisation without undue interference from the state), prohibits endowment of any particular religion, prohibits the state from religious discrimination, and requires the state to treat religious and non-religious schools in a non-prejudicial manner.

  3. Irreligion in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    A 2013 VitalSigns study by the Community Foundation for Ireland asked Irish respondents to rank a list of 119 areas of society in order of importance. "Religion and spirituality" ranked as the least important thing in Irish people's lives and "[t]he quality of the education system" was the most important. [43] [44]

  4. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Candlelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause. [5] Cemeteries is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. Cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere ...

  5. Wake (ceremony) - Wikipedia

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    An Irish wake as depicted in the later 19th century Plaque in Thurles marking the site of the wake of the writer Charles Kickham.. The wake (Irish: tórramh, faire) is a key part of the death customs of Ireland; it is an important phase in the separation of the dead from the world of the living and transition to the world of the dead. [8]

  6. Religion in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of articles about religion in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Religion in the Republic of Ireland; Religion in Northern Ireland; Irreligion in the Republic of Ireland; Christianity in Ireland. History of Christianity in Ireland; Roman Catholicism in Ireland; Protestantism in Ireland. Reformation in Ireland ...

  7. Irish Catholic Martyrs - Wikipedia

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    As the Whig-controlled Parliament of Ireland passed the Penal Laws, which progressively criminalized Roman Catholicism and stripped away from its adherents all rights under the law, [34] a miracle connected to the ongoing religious persecution in Ireland took place, according to Diocesan and municipal records, at Győr in the Kingdom of Hungary.

  8. Last rites - Wikipedia

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    The last rites, also known as the Commendation of the Dying, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of Christian faith, when possible, shortly before death. [1] The Commendation of the Dying is practiced in liturgical Christian denominations , such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church . [ 2 ]

  9. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    A single religion/mythology may have death gods of more than one gender existing at the same time and they may be envisioned as a married couple ruling over the afterlife together, as with the Aztecs, Greeks, and Romans. In monotheistic religions, the one god governs both life and death (as well as everything else). However, in practice this ...