'A Bishop For The Shortest Time Bernard Finegan (1837-1887)'by Monsignor Liam Kelly скачать в хорошем качестве

'A Bishop For The Shortest Time Bernard Finegan (1837-1887)'by Monsignor Liam Kelly

The 2022 Annual Bishop MacKiernan lecture brought to you by Cavan Library Service in collaboration with Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne. This lecture is about Bernard Finegan, a native of Corlurgan just outside Cavan town, who was bishop of Kilmore for a mere seventeen months when he died, at the age of fifty, in November 1887. He was ten years old when the Great Famine struck, old enough to see the poverty, starvation and death that it left in its wake. This experience had a profound effect on him. He taught in the Kilmore Academy in Cavan town before going to America to fundraise for the new St Patrick’s College in Cavan. He was the last President of the Kilmore Academy and the first President of St Patrick’s College. He involved himself in the Land League and Home Rule politics in order to improve the lot of tenant farmers and he, along with Church of Ireland clergymen, promoted temperance. He was in poor health when he was ordained bishop of Kilmore in June 1886 and he died of pneumonia in Cullies House, Cavan, seventeen months later on 11 November 1887.