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The Tilson Case: Church and State in 1950s' Ireland
David Jameson
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David Jameson's The Tilson Case: Church and State in 1950s' Ireland tells the story of one the most extraordinary causes celebre of twentieth-century Ireland, which followed the marriage of Ernest Tilson, a Protestant, to Mary Barnes, a Catholic, in Dublin in 1941. Since this was a mixed marriage and the couple wished to be married in a Catholic church, both were obliged to sign a pledge agreeing to raise any children of the marriage as Catholics. Nine years later, Ernest reneged on that promise when he removed three of his four sons to the Protestant-run Birds' Nest orphanage in Dun ... Read more
David Jameson's The Tilson Case: Church and State in 1950s' Ireland tells the story of one the most extraordinary causes celebre of twentieth-century Ireland, which followed the marriage of Ernest Tilson, a Protestant, to Mary Barnes, a Catholic, in Dublin in 1941. Since this was a mixed marriage and the couple wished to be married in a Catholic church, both were obliged to sign a pledge agreeing to raise any children of the marriage as Catholics. Nine years later, Ernest reneged on that promise when he removed three of his four sons to the Protestant-run Birds' Nest orphanage in Dun ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782055600
SKU
9781782055600
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About David Jameson
David Jameson is a Visiting Teaching Fellow in Trinity College Dublin. His most recent article 'Norah Hoult and Temple Lane's Novels of Mixed Marriages in the Early Free State' was published by New Hibernia Review in 2018.
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