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The reasons for the failure of the Reformation in Ireland are many. One such element was the difference between the state of the church in Ireland compared with that of England and Wales at the...
The wife of a Catholic landlord turning Protestant got separate maintenance; the son turning Protestant got the whole estate; and the Catholic landlord having only Catholic children was obliged at death to divide his estate among his children in equal shares.
Ireland was in a really odd situation when Henry VIII created the Church of England. It had three groups of people, English, Hiberno-Norman's and Gaelic speaking Irish. The crown had control of the English who were pretty much confined to the towns and the Pale in Dublin.
Throughout most of the 20th century in Ireland, the Catholic Church was involved in a symbiotic structural entanglement with the Irish Free State as this reality unfolded socially and...
In Ireland, the Reformation never made much headway. Whereas in Scotland there was a growing number of elites who embraced the new religion starting in the 1530s, there was little incursion into Ireland. English dominance over Ireland was more de jure than de facto.
Only when the Catholic church in Ireland was re-organised on a sustainable footing as a disestablished ‘people’s church’ from the 1580s, and infused with the confidence inspired by the Counter-Reformation, can it be stated that the Reformation had failed in Ireland definitively.
The Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish: An Eaglais Chaitliceach in Éireann, Ulster Scots: Catholic Kirk in Airlann) or Irish Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See.
why did the protestant reformation fail in ireland? By Henry A. Jefferies In terms of sheer importance in Irish history, few events compare with the Reformation. In particular, the contrasting outcomes of the Reformation in Ireland and Britain had profound consequences for Anglo-Irish relations over subsequent centuries, and still affect life ...
By the centenary of 1916, same-sex marriage and abortion rights were on the national agenda: Ireland was an altered state and outright hostility to Catholicism was often evident. By 2021, a government video about St Patrick’s Day erased all mention of St Patrick himself, lest it “contaminate” the brand of a new Ireland.
The reforms were continued by Henry's successor, Edward VI. The Church of Ireland claims Apostolic succession because of the continuity in the hierarchy; however this claim is disputed by the Catholic Church, which asserts, in Apostolicae curae, that Anglican orders are invalid.